More About Me!

Behind the velvet curtain of Madam Strange is Maggie Sasso, a Milwaukee-based artist whose practice blends theater, mysticism, ancestry, and heirloom craft.

Raised on the stage, she grew up in the world of performance, learning early that every gesture, every pause, every object can hold meaning. That theatrical sensibility threads through her tarot practice today: each reading is a performance for the soul, where symbolism and story come alive.

Her artistry extends beyond the cards. Working with leather, fibers, wood, and metal, she crafts heirloom-quality metaphysical goods that feel like artifacts from another world, objects meant to be cherished, not consumed. Every piece is infused with ritual, wit, and a touch of the Strange.

Madam Strange is also an ancestral witch, honoring and researching her German, Irish, and Italian roots, while carrying the threads of her lineage tied to the Appalachian Mountains through her mother and the Rust Belt through her father. Her work is both personal and historical, weaving family memory and cultural inheritance into ritual practice and artistic creation.

Madam Strange herself has appeared not only at markets and salons, but even on stage at open mic nights, where tarot becomes both spectacle and revelation. This blending of art, ancestry, and mysticism is at the core of her work: part scholarship in astrology and clairvoyance, part theatrical improvisation, part luxury craft.

Through readings, creations, and performance, Madam Strange invites her audience to step into her universe—and to see their own lives illuminated in its strange and shimmering light.

Madam Strange lives and works in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on the ancestral homelands of the Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Potawatomi, Miami, Kickapoo, Peoria, and Sioux nations. These lands have been stewarded for generations by Indigenous peoples, and continue to be home to vibrant Native communities today.

With gratitude and respect, Madam Strange acknowledges this history, and honors the resilience of these nations—especially in the face of violent attempts to erase Indigenous peoples and erase their right to practice the spiritual and divination traditions that are inseparably tied to this land.

To practice art, ritual, and divination here is only possible because of the survival, strength, and ongoing cultural presence of Indigenous peoples, whose voices and traditions must continue to be uplifted.