QED Arts LLC

Pacific Lutheran University mathematics professor Jessica K. Sklar and artist Bronna A. Butler began collaborating as QED Arts, LLC in 2020.

Jessica is passionate about the fact that math doesn’t just live in textbooks and classrooms, but is also found in our neighborhoods, our galleries, and our stories. She seeks to share her love of mathematics via her art, scholarship, and teaching. Whether she’s writing about math and popular culture, Mad Veterinarian problems, or tortoises learning about infinity, her hope is that others will see that math is a vibrant subject which can speak to both the child and the aesthete in each of us. 

Bronna has a B.A. in Art and an M.S. in Accounting from the University of Missouri. After being a financial executive for 22 years for creative entrepreneurial firms in design, publishing, and telecommunications, she founded B.A. Baroque Arts, LLC in 1997. She has completed numerous commissioned pieces, including a twenty-foot-tall stainless-steel monument, 900 square feet of stained-glass windows, and over 140 oil and pastel paintings. In 2015, she began creating glass sculptures and two-dimensional artwork with a mathematical and scientific focus.