The Pfister Hotel's video: The Ninth Artist in Residence - Margaret Muza

The Pfister has long prided itself as being a world-class destination for travelers and a quintessential Milwaukee landmark. Woven throughout the cultural fiber of our hotel is a long-standing passion for the arts. Along with our expansive Victorian art collection – the largest of its kind of any hotel in the world – The Pfister Milwaukee is proud to continue our immensely successful and popular Artist-in-Residence program. Muza, a Milwaukee-area tintype photographer, began working in the hotel’s lobby-level Artist’s Studio for one year beginning April 1, 2017. For only the second time in the history of the Artist-in-Residence program, Muza was also selected as the winner of the public vote. “My love of history made me familiar with tintypes. The beauty of older portraits such as Abraham Lincoln, Fredrick Douglass and others moved me and I fell in love with the process. I am eager to begin interacting with hotel guests and teaching them the inner workings of tintype photography. As part of my work in the studio, I will be able to capture memorable moments as they happen and give guests their own unique tintype portrait only a few minutes after the picture is taken. I look forward to capturing the many faces of guests and associates and telling their story through my work.”