2024 Prairie Arts Festival Juror: Anita Ivy Miller

Anita always expresses stories in her art.  Meeting life challenges and celebrating life's satisfactions are the subjects of her paintings. This year Anita exhibited her painting The Key Question Is at the In View Exhibition at the Art Center Highland Park. She has shown her work in Chicago as well as New York and California. Anita is teaching Painting Basics with Acrylic Paint at The Art Center Highland Park.

2024 Prairie Arts Festival Judge: Diana Slaviero

Diana Slaviero Art Studio is based in Chicago at the Fine Arts Building. Diana is a lifelong artist with a passion for collage and mixed media. Her collage series, “The Nature of Reality” was a primary feature in the Vital Realms show at the Fine Arts Building Second Floor Gallery in 2023. Diana has a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology and her workshop, “Creating Your Life Map” blends reflection with collage making.

2024 Prairie Arts Festival Judge: Vicki Liszewski 

Vicki Liszewski attended the University of Wisconsin at Madison as an art major with an area of emphasis in drawing and completed a B.S.E. in art at the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater. Her current mediums are watercolor and pastel. She has also done fiber arts, collage, woodworking, and miniatures. Vicki is a member of the DuPage Art League, the Nature Artists Guild of the Morton Arboretum, and the Chicago Pastel Painters. Her work has won awards at the Danada Nature Art Show, the DuPage Art League and been featured in the “Nature Artists Quarterly” of the Nature Artists Guild of the Morton Arboretum.