Anna Fortune
Executive Director
Anna Fortune is a functional apparel and soft goods designer, textile engineer, tarot reader, and hairdresser to the stars. Anna performs regularly with Milwaukee-based bands Fake Twin and System Sect.
Executive Director
Anna Fortune is a functional apparel and soft goods designer, textile engineer, tarot reader, and hairdresser to the stars. Anna performs regularly with Milwaukee-based bands Fake Twin and System Sect.
Technical Director
J.J. Fortune is a graphic designer, software architect, and one of the artists running Style Machine, where he orchestrates AV and operations. He designs the visual environment of a party: flyers, sets, and live video, from a life-size Barbie box guests posed inside to the visuals for Blood Rave. He co-owns Goth Barge, the darkwave DJ collective that started as a bachelor party on a rented pontoon and now runs boats in Milwaukee, Madison, Cleveland, New Orleans, and Toronto. He DJs as XdominionX, playing darkwave, EBM, and industrial. He holds a master's in computer science from UW-Milwaukee and built this website.
Program Director
Neil Horsky is an artist, designer, educator, musician and writer who moved from Boston to Milwaukee in 2023 to help establish Style Machine.
Much of Neil’s art explores the relationships between truth, mystery, intuition, dreams, chance and play. He produces the semi-annual Name That Schlock gameshow at Cactus Club and the annual Museum of Ambiguous Objects interactive exhibition at Style Machine. He plays drums for the Milwaukee krautrock band, Gore Area II.
Neil currently writes Milwaukee restaurant reviews and Southeastern Wisconsin nature excursion recommendations for the Shepherd Express magazine and blog. He's also a freelance graphic designer working with higher education institutions, community organizations, municipalities, and individual artists.
Neil is currently an adjunct instructor at MIAD in the First Year Experience Department. He has also taught at UWM in the Art Department and the Journalism, Advertising and Media Studies (JAMS) Department.
Operations Director
Amanda is a jewelry designer using found objects, detritus of both the natural and man-made realms. She is also a gardener and warden of the urban soil. Amanda is a long-time party curator, behind-the-scenes social orchestrator, and the vocalist in the band, Gore Area II.
Staff Designer
Luke Fortune is a fine artist, costume designer and musician who primarily develops artwork for the Cone Cult. He is also a contributor to The Museum of Ambiguous Objects.
