Neil Horsky is a community artist, educator, musician, writer, and consultant who recently relocated to Milwaukee from Boston. Neil’s creative influences include Fluxus, Dada, Surrealist games, The Situationist International, Taoism, and DIY culture such as zines, house shows, and street art.
Neil offers a variety of educational services including creativity workshops, music improvisation workshops, lectures, and tours. He has also developed courses for several local arts enrichment programs.
Neil is a video, public art and event producer working in partnership with community-based non-profits, schools, libraries and other institutions. He also produces printed matter merchandise such as posters, zines, and one-of-a-kind artworks. Neil’s art zines are housed in several library collections, including the Somerville Public Library Zines and Small Press Collection, the W. Van Alan Clark, Jr. Library at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, the Fleet Library at Rhode Island School of Design, and most recently at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Library Special Collections.
Neil’s videos and artworks have been exhibited widely in the Boston area as well as in New York City, Chicago, Madison, Milwaukee, Delaware, Texas, South Carolina, and elsewhere.
Neil was the drummer in the Cosmic Americana band, Old Wave, for nine years, and has been a percussionist in several experimental improvisation ensembles. He was a longtime content contributor to the arts and culture newspaper, the Boston Compass, and the arts and culture blog, the Boston Hassle.
Now based in Riverwest, Milwaukee, Neil currently holds the positions of Adjunct Instructor at Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design and the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. He is also working with several partners to establish a cultural space in Riverwest called Style Machine.