Sight Lines
Sight Lines brings together the work of four artists whose practices demonstrate the breadth, complexity, and vitality of contemporary photography in Wisconsin. Though each artist approaches the medium through distinctly different conceptual, aesthetic, and material concerns, their work shares a sustained commitment to observation, inquiry, and the transformative possibilities of photographic seeing.
Sarah Detweiler earned her B.F.A. (Bachelor of Fine Arts) from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and an M.F.A. (Master of Fine Arts) from the University of Florida. Professor Detweiler teaches Photography & Art History (Outsider Art & History of Photography) at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay since 2003. Detweiler has served on the board of the Midwest Society for Photographic Education and was a National Pink Week Ambassador of Pink. Her work been published in various journals and books including Photography for the 21st Century by Katie Miller & The Folk Art Messenger.
Photography is at the core of her work as an artist but also places heavy emphasis on drawing, video art & performance art. Detweiler has exhibited nationally and internationally including exhibitions at Los Angles Center for Digital Art, Wayfarers in Brooklyn, Cricket Engine Gallery & Studio in Sacramento, Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, Center for Fine Art Photography in Colorado, Digital Media Arts Center in Orlando and Sluce Art Fair in London.
by Sarah Detweiler
Morgan Barrie is an artist working with photography. Her research is focused on issues of the anthropocene:
shifting baselines, invasive species, and our connections to other animals.
She studied at Columbia College Chicago, where she received her bachelor’s degree, and Eastern Michigan
University, where she received an MFA in Photography. She currently works from a studio in Wisconsin and
is an Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Stout. Her work has been exhibited nationally &
internationally. Morgan is a member of the Eco.Echo Art Collective, a group of international artists deeply
concerned with the well-being of our planet beyond human needs.
Dandelions by Morgan Barrie
Jon Horvath is an interdisciplinary artist and writer based in Milwaukee, WI. Influenced by his early formal education in creative fiction writing, philosophy, and composing music, Horvath’s practice has since expanded into the mixed use of photography, video, sculptural objects, and other mediums, often brought into a combined space. Horvath seeks open-ended, poetic narratives that are rooted in an exploration of how we build personal and cultural mythologies as a way to better understand the world around us. Horvath’s work has been exhibited in solo and group shows internationally and published widely.
His work is currently held in the permanent collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Haggerty Museum of Art, the Snite Museum of Art, and is included in the Midwest Photographers Project at the Museum of Contemporary Photography. His first monograph, “This Is Bliss”, was co-published by Yoffy Press and FW:Books in 2022. Horvath’s work has been featured in publications and websites including CNNStyle, British Journal of Photography, Museé Magazine, Booooooom, Photo District News, Feature Shoot and others. Horvath is a 2026 Ruth Arts Nohl Alumni fellow and currently teaches in the Fine Arts + New Studio Practice program at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design.
Untitled from Wide Eyed by Jon Horvath
Tomiko Jones is a photography-based multidisciplinary artist whose installations explore ecological concerns, cultural traditions, and questions of belonging. Curator Cecily Cullen writes, “Through photographic interventions that traverse time and notions of belonging, Jones’ work journeys through landscape, chronicling passage from interior to exterior, known and unknowable. This work reflects historical modes of artmaking while imbuing a contemporary urgency and relevance.”
Jones received an MFA with a Certificate in Museum Studies, University of Arizona, and a BA in Cultural Anthropology with a minor in Studio Art, Western Washington University. Jones is the recipient of multiple awards, including an invited residency at the Musée Nicéphore Niépce in Chalon‑sur‑Saône, France, and a 2025 Anonymous Was A Woman Environmental Art Grant for the socially engaged project These Grand Places, to be presented in a traveling mobile gallery with pop‑up exhibitions in fall 2026. Jones is an Associate Professor of Art at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and a recipient of the Vilas Faculty Early Career Investigator Award.
Offering by Tomiko Jones