Who We Are

Fischer Studio Works
is the husband and wife team of
Joel and Mary Fischer

Mary Fischer is the primary artist and the public face of Fischer Studio Works. She holds dual degrees in advertising and marketing illustration from the American Academy of Art in Chicago Illinois, as well as a degree in Art History from the Art Institute in Chicago. She worked for the Leo Burnette Advertising Agency in Chicago while attending classes in college and then eventually went on to become a free-lance artist and graphic designer from her home based studio so that she could be a stay at home mom. She is proficient with and heavily uses Adobe's Photshop, In Design, Illustrator, and Acrobat. She also specializes in classical portraiture and hand painted book illustration.

Aside from his artistic talent Joel Fischer provides the "behind the scenes" technical support for Fischer Sudio Works. He has over thirty years of experience in programming and computers. He is in charge of setting up and maintaining all of the networks, computers, peripherals, databases and software that Fischer Studioworks depends upon. He has received training from the University of Illinois in Champaign in code and web language. He has programming experience in Pascal, Perl, PHP, MySQL, Javascript, Actionscript, Html, Xml, and Css. He also has experience with many of the Open Source Ecommerce shopping carts and Joomla CMS. So whether it is building a custom computer or coding custom modules, setting up networks or creating websites, simple Html or complex Flash, or providing technical support and moral support Joel is the "go to guy" for Fischer Studio Works and their clients.