Driftless Artists: Portraits from Wisconsin's Driftless Region

Driftless Artists: Portraits from Wisconsin’s Driftless Region is a portrait book about the artists, makers, writers, potters, painters, woodworkers, photographers and other creative people who help define one of the Midwest’s most distinctive regions. Photographed over five years and more than a twenty solo trips, the book brings together more than 50 environmental portraits made in studios, homes, workshops, barns, bookstores, galleries, old schools, and other spaces across Wisconsin’s Driftless Region. Each portrait is paired with a short bio written by the artist, allowing the book to move between visual documentation and first-person reflection. The project began as an excuse to better understand the creative life of the Driftless, but over time it became something more personal: a record of repeated visits, long conversations, back roads, hospitality, studio light, and the relationships that formed along the way. Self-published by photographer Andy Goodwin, Driftless Artists is both a regional document and a tribute to the people whose work, lives, and places give the Driftless its particular character.