Mae Wilson is an artist, and educator from California’s Central Coast.  Her interests include vegan cheesemaking, museums, graveyards, astronomy, speculative fiction, and walking around nowhere in particular. 

 

Influenced by artists such as Jose Guadalupe Posada, Jim Henson, and Kate Beaton, as well as a childhood spent being mystical in the scrub, Mae is interested in studying the connection between skepticism and mysticism, human responsibility towards the larger ecosystem, and the power and limitations of narrative.  

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Mae received her MFA in Art with a focus in Graphic Narrative from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 2021, after working with luminaries such as Lynda Barry and Jeff Butler. As well as self publishing and exhibiting her work regularly as part of  Southern California’s zine scene, Mae has exhibited her work in publications such as Mulberry Literary, The OUCH Collective, and ABSORB are well as anthologies such as Where You Live and A Common Self. Mae currently lives and works in San Luis Obispo, CA.