Jacob Docksey Shares Artist Talk with Studio Arts Students

December 5, 2025

Jacob Docksey joined Studio Arts students and faculty on Friday, December 5, 2025 for an hour-long artist talk about his work and process. Docksey is one of the visiting artists who attended the Mini Portfolio Day exercise in September, 2025 and provided portfolio feedback to Perpich Visual Arts and Media Arts seniors to help them prepare for Portfolio Day on September 29, 2025.

Jacob Docksey (self portrait image) spoke with Studio Arts students and faculty on December 5, 2025

“We were privileged to have local artist, Jacob Docksey, join us,” said Kathryn D’Elia, Visual Arts Instructor and Studio Arts Chair. “He shared a diverse body of work, including observation-based oil paintings, created structures, personal symbolism, charcoal drawn animations, and narrative explorations. We were particularly blown away with the practical structures he creates to solve visual problems. He creates models and tools, and lights his subjects to find what he needs.”

​Jacob Docksey is a visual artist currently residing in St. Paul, Minnesota. Born in 1994 in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, Jacob attended the University of Wisconsin-Stout where he attained a B.F.A in Studio Art with a painting concentration. Initially dedicated to oil painting he also creates stop-motion animations with traditional mediums like charcoal and chalk pastel. He pulls inspiration from 20th century artists such as Ashcan School painter George Bellows, for his raw documentation of early industrial America, and Czechoslovakian filmmaker Jan Švankmajer for his surrealistic narratives. Jacob Docksey has shown around much of the US and has received an award in group exhibition at the Gamut Gallery C4W exhibition and annual Prometheus Exhibition at the Furlong Gallery, as well as partaken in the 2018 Survey of Wisconsin Artists at the Charles Allis Museum in Milwaukee.