Evie Digirolamo is a theatre maker who specializes in new plays made from scratch. Her work is highly physical using partner acrobatics and aerial arts, highly collaborative, and highly innovative using multiple art forms (poetry, music, puppetry and more) to tell a story. Evie invested 12 years as a principal teaching artist with Upstream Arts [...]
Jinjer Markley
Currently, not available for Creative Classroom Residencies until Spring 2026. Jinjer Markley is an artist, illustrator, and color nerd in Minneapolis, MN. Her formal training is in science: She has an M.M.s in Plant Biology. She also formally studied science teaching and formerly taught middle school science. Her interest in math and science leaks into [...]
Moira Villiard
Through public art collaborations across Minnesota, Moira Villiard (pronounced “Miri”) is a multidisciplinary artist who uses art to uplift underrepresented narratives, explore the nuance of society’s historical community intersections, and promote community healing spaces. She is proficient in a variety of artistic mediums and genres, including public art, painting, digital and graphic design, animation, photography, [...]
Karen Caldwell
Karen Caldwell is a British-born Barbadian artist whose abstract works explore transformation, identity, and connection through layered textures and shifting light. Working primarily with acrylics, palette knives, and metallics, she creates pieces that evolve throughout the day, inviting new perspectives with every glance. Her work has been exhibited in Europe, the Caribbean, and North America, [...]
Constanza Carballo
Constanza Carballo is a bilingual, bicultural Latina artist and nurse based in Minnesota. Her art practice began in 1991 and is deeply rooted in community engagement, storytelling, and the traditions of printmaking, mosaic, mural, and public art. She works to create spaces where art is not only seen but also experienced and shared collectively; sparking [...]
seangarrison
A native Detroiter raised in Minneapolis, seangarrison has 38 years of people-serving work. From working with youth to older adults, teaching curious minds how to articulate what resides in them in an abstract art way. He is a co-founder and former member of the ROHO Collective, an African-American arts collective, and coined its name. He [...]
Katrina Knutson
Katrina Knutson was born in South Minneapolis and raised on working class ethics, progressive politics, street art and hip-hop. Since then, she has lived everywhere from Mexico City to Toronto, studying art and looking for inspiration under bridges, on the streets, and in galleries across North America. But no matter how far she travels, Minneapolis [...]
