Thea Kovac

"Lady Parade III, " Figurative Watercolor signed by Thea Kovac

2010

Thea Kovac is a visual artist, writer, private art coach, workshop leader and art instructor who calls her artistic practice, The Lost Playground Studio. She currently teaches adult education courses at Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Cardinal Stritch University and the Jewish Community Center of Milwaukee. She has taught and led workshops in other settings including Alverno College, Milwaukee, Carroll University, Waukesha, Woodland Pattern Book Center, Milwaukee, The Clearing, Door County, The Atrium, Shorewood and the UW-Green Bay Weidner Center. She attended the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design for four years after leaving an established career in social work. She has held several artist residencies in the Milwaukee Public Schools. Under the sponsorship of the Milwaukee Access Telecommunications Authority, she produced an art video with a grant from the Milwaukee Arts Board. She has been on the jury panel for exhibits at different colleges and the Milwaukee Art Museum Scholastic Art Awards and has given presentations at artist organizations in southeastern Wisconsin and northern Illinois. Her watercolor and acrylic paintings are in numerous collections locally and internationally and in many corporate collections including Avon Headquarters in New York, Information Resources Inc in Chicago and Northwestern Mutual, Bank One, Ernst and Young and Ascension St. Francis Hospital in Milwaukee. Since 1990 she has participated in numerous juried and invitational exhibits, including the Lakefront Festival of Art, Milwaukee, ‘Watercolor Wisconsin’, Wustum Museum, Racine and the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. Her loft studio is located in the Walker’s Point in Milwaukee. Her paintings can be seen at Art and Soul Gallery, Katie Gingrass Gallery in Milwaukee, at Charlene’s Gallery 10 in Gil’s Rock, Wisconsin, The Commercial Gallery Alma and the Wustum Museum Sales Gallery in Racine.