Together Again

Shana McCaw
Creative Director and Co-Founder
Current Projects | Milwaukee, WI

Shana McCaw is an artist-curator with over 20 years of experience researching, teaching, and working in the Milwaukee area. Formerly the Senior Curator at the Charles Allis Art Museum and Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum, McCaw is now Creative Director and Co-Founder at Current Projects in Milwaukee, WI. McCaw’s past curatorial projects include curating and directing the Northwestern Mutual Gallery at Cardinal Stritch University; assisting in the design and installation of multiple exhibitions in partnership with the Chipstone Foundation at the Milwaukee Art Museum; teaching 3-D design, sculpture, and domestic field study courses at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, and Cardinal Stritch University; and developing an internationally recognized art practice with her husband and collaborator, Brent Budsberg. McCaw and Budsberg received the Mary Nohl Fellowship for Individual Artists in the Established category in 2008 and 2014. They were also awarded residencies in Wendover, UT with the Center for Land Use Interpretation (2012) and in Death Valley, CA with the Goldwell Open Air Museum (2013). McCaw earned her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, MI in 1999. She currently lives in Milwaukee’s Riverwest neighborhood, where her studio is also based.