After five years of research comes the first book to encompass the 13,000-year history of art in Wisconsin, in all its richness and complexity. "A Creative Place: The History of Wisconsin Art", featuring seven chapters and more than 400 high quality images, elevates art to its rightful place in the proud culture of our state. This ambitious project, backed from the start by the Cedarburg Art Museum, has something for art historians, collectors, students of history and celebrants of all things Wisconsin. Hear directly from the co-authors in this video interview!

With the valuable assistance of art historian, editor and author Melanie Herzog, archeologist Robert Boszhardt, and art essayist Fred Schwertfeger, Tom Lidtke and Annemarie Sawkins have compiled this survey of art in Wisconsin.

Tom Lidtke, a former art instructor and artist who has worked in the United States and Australia, spent three decades leading museums and chronicling Wisconsin’s rich art history. Lidtke’s crowning achievement was transforming the West Bend Art Museum into the Museum of Wisconsin Art, which opened its new state of the art building in 2013. He has taught graduate courses in Wisconsin art history and his essays have been published internationally. Above all, Lidtke is a gifted storyteller.

Annemarie Sawkins is a Milwaukee-based curator, art historian, and author who has curated exhibitions for numerous museums across the United States. From 1999 to 2012, she was a curator at the Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University. Sawkins has a PhD in Art History from McGill University in Montreal. Her research of Wisconsin art covers the post-World War II period through the end of the twentieth century.

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