Peter Makela

Peter Makela is an internationally recognized artist and Assistant Professor of Art in the Division of Arts at Edgewood University in Madison, Wisconsin. He received his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2008 and his MFA from the LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2018.

A 2022 Fulbright Student Researcher to Nepal, he has lived and traveled widely throughout the Himalayas and has exhibited nationally and internationally, most recently showing his work at a large solo exhibit at the Patan Museum in Nepal. His paintings are included in many private and public collections, including those of Jean Louis Bourgeois and Johns Hopkins University.