Alexis Schramel (she/her) is a queer experimental artist, papermaker, SCOBY caretaker, and community-based artist. She serves as an adjunct professor in the Fine Arts and Foundations Departments at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD), where she currently teaches courses in Art & Ecological Futures, Critical Studies, and 2D Foundations. Additionally, Alexis teaches online courses in Drawing, Watercolor, and 3D Foundations at Upper Iowa University.

For four years, Alexis was the Youth Art Director at Art in the Park in Elkader, Iowa, where she directed public art projects and workshops for local youth and led “Art for a Lifetime” projects for residents in long-term care facilities. In 2020, she presented her research on therapeutic artmaking at the Gerontological Society of America's Annual Scientific Meeting. This research, co-authored with professors, was published as "The Ritual of Therapeutic Artmaking in Long-Term Care" in the International Journal of Lifelong Learning in Art Education (Vol. 6, 2023).
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Her work has been exhibited both regionally and internationally, including at the Waterloo Center for the Arts, the Charles H. MacNider Art Museum, the Tappan Collective in Leeds, England, and most recently, the Leica 6x7 Gallery in Warsaw, Poland. She is also a recipient of several awards and scholarships, including the Ingleside Women in Fine Arts Scholarship and the Baldwin Memorial Award in Art.