keiler roberts

Powdered Milk

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keilerjean@hotmail.com

Education
2002 MFA, Northwestern University

2000 BFA, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Teaching
2013-present Adjunct Faculty, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

2011-present Adjunct Faculty, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois

2008-2010 Visiting Assistant Professor, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois

2005-2008 Adjunct Faculty, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois

2007-2008 Part-time Lecturer, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois

Books 
Miseryland,
 Evanston: self-published. To be released in June 2015

Powdered Milk: Collected Stories, Evanston: self-published. 2012

Powdered Milk vol. 6, Evanston: self-published. 2012

Other Publications  
Nat. Brut fifth issue, April 2015. www.natbrut.com

“Treats for Dogs.” Chicago Reader Comics Issue, 25 Feb. 2014 http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/comics-issue-keiler-roberts-dog-boutique-work/Content?oid=12569823.

MUTHA Magazine I have been a regular contributor since Sept. 2013. www.muthamagazine.com/tag/keiler-roberts/

"Bee." INKT/ART. 19 May 2014. www.inktart.org

Linework: “Individually Wrapped Snacks.” Newcity, 10 Jan. 2014. Edited by Ivan Brunetti and Aaron Renier. http://newcity.com/tag/keiler-roberts/.

Requited Journal, issue 6, 2012. requitedjournal.com

Hip Mama: the Parenting Zine #53, Oct. 2012

“MCA.” Nashville Review, Vanderbilt University, summer 2011 issue
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/english/nashvillereview/archives/4515.

“Powdered Milk.” Nashville Review, Vanderbilt University, spring 2010 issue

Reviews
Rogers, Benjamin. “CAKE Report: Indie Comics go to Chicago,” The Beat, 4 June 2014 www.comicsbeat.com

Clough, Rob. “Life and Death: Keiler Roberts and Jason Walz,” High-Low, 19 June 2013 www.highlowcomics.blogspot.com/2013/06/life-and-death-keiler-roberts-and-jason.

Nicole, Laneia. “Zine Machine: Put A Egg On It, Geeked and More Things You'll Like’” Autostraddle, 18 March 2013 http://www.autostraddle.com/?s=keiler+roberts.

Lewis, Gwen. "Review of Powdered Milk" Hip Mama: the Parenting Zine #53, Oct. 2012

“Go: look, Keiler Roberts” The Comics Reporter, June 2012 www.comicsreporter.com.

Moriarty, Judith Ann. “‘Interior/Exterior’ Finds a Home at Portrait Society Gallery,” Express Milwaukee, 30 June 2009

Fiffer, Sharon. “Keiler Sensenbrenner’s Simple Wardrobe,” FiberArts, January/February 2009

Walworth, Catherine. “The Art Capades.” San Antonio Current, 22 December, 2005

Rosenfeld, Kathryn. “That Kind of Fall,” Artnet Magazine, 2004 www.artnet.com/Magazine/reviews/rosenfeld/rosenfeld10-14-04.asp.

Elissa Strauss, “Making Their Mark,” The Badger Herald, Madison, Wisconsin, 19 November, 1998  


Exhibitions
2014 
TCAF - Toronto Comics Arts Festival, Toronto, Canada

Division of Labor, Glass Curtain Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago, IL

2013
Autoptic
, Minneapolis, MN

2012-2014
CAKE - Chicago Alternative Comics Expo, Chicago, IL

2010, 2013
The Faculty Show, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL

2009 
A Dog’s Life, Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN (curated by Elizabeth Edwards) (catalogue)

2008
The Cuckoo Then, on Every Tree, Portrait Society Gallery, Milwaukee, WI, (catalogue)

2007-2011
Simple Wardrobe (a web documented project involving sewing & knitting a new wardrobe to replace all of my manufactured clothes)

2007
if that was all i needed i'd be fine
, Kavi Gupta Gallery (curated by Danielle Gustafson-Sundell), Chicago, IL

Girl on Guy: the Object of My Desire,A + D Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago, IL (curated by Marci Rae McDade) (catalogue)

Still Lifes, William Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton, MA

2005
Animal Logic, Three Walls (curated by Kimberly Aubuchon), San Antonio, TX

2004 
Scope Art Fair, Wendy Cooper Gallery, Miami Beach, FL

Home Fires Burning, Wendy Cooper Gallery, Chicago, IL

Art Chicago, Wendy Cooper Gallery, Chicago, IL

2003 
Drop in Mercury: The Anthropomorphizing of Snow, The Bower Gallery, San Antonio, TX (curated by Michelle Grabner) (catalogue)

Strange Places in Pictorial Spaces, Unit B Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

Art Chicago, Wendy Cooper Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

2002
 Affordable Art Fair New York, Wendy Cooper Gallery, New York City

M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition, Block Museum of Art, Evanston, Illinois

2001
Subject Matters, Standard Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, (co-curated by Dan Devening), (catalogue)

2001
Portable, Embassy Suites, Chicago, Illinois

2000
Little Pictures, Commonwealth Gallery, Madison, Wisconsin


Other Professional Activities
2014
Co-occupations, Sector 2337, Chicago IL, Comics Performance

"Keiler Roberts - Episode 26." Interview by Jason Love. Jason Loves Life. 9 June 2014. http://www.jasonloveslife.com/keiler-roberts-episode-26/

Chicago Zine Fest
, Chicago, IL. Comics Performance

Two Cookie Minimum, M.C. Johnny Misfit. Chicago, IL. Comics Performance

2013
Brain Frame 14
, Dir. Lyra Hill. Chicago, IL. 20 Sept. 2013. Comics Performance

The Infinite Corpse, corpsey.trubbleclub.com

2013-2015
Juror for CAKE - Chicago Alternative Comics Expo

2012
Panelist, CAKE, Real Life: A Round Table on Women and Graphic Autobiography with Rina Ayuyang, Julia Wertz, Leslie Stein, Marian Runk, and Lucy Knisley

2011 
Panelist, One Book, One Chicago --Turning the Page: The Rise of the Graphic Novel with Zac Mucha and Geof Darrow

2010 
Artist talk, Super R-Type #2, Green Lantern Gallery, Chicago

2006
Illustrations for McDougal Littell (a division of Houghton Mifflin Company)

2005
Panel Discussion Moderator, Block Museum, Northwestern University’s Graduate Thesis Show


Awards and Recognitions
2015
Special Guest,
CAKE - Chicago Alternative Comics Expo

2014
The Best American Comics 2014, Notables List

Ignatz award nominations in two categories – Outstanding Series and Promising New Talent

Special Guest, Chicago Zine Fest

2013 
Ignatz Award nomination Best Minicomic  

2002
Visual Art Scholarship, Union League Civic & Arts Foundation

2000
Northwestern University Fellowship