2025–26 Teaching Artist Fellow* Simmia Nelson is a music producer, sound designer, and teaching artist who helps young people explore emotion and identity through creative technology. He guides students in transforming their feelings and experiences into original art using music production, photography, and digital storytelling. His teaching practice is collaborative, student-centered, and rooted in building [...]
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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 [...]
Joe Davis
Joe Davis is an award-winning spoken word artist and bestselling author who uses poetry to power possibility. He is the founder and director of Finding Your Freedom Practice, an artist collective teaching holistic health and wellness practices through spoken word, writing, music, theater, film, and dance. Joe holds a Master of Arts degree in Theology [...]
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 [...]
Susan Armington
From tiny Japanese slippers to a gigantic map of the Twin Cities (made of words and languages of people who live there), my art reflects the world I see and feel. My works are maps of imaginative geography, paintings, and 3-D collage objects, which I exhibit locally and nationwide. My art and community work deal [...]
SEE MORE PERSPECTIVE
See More Perspective stands, works, and creates in solidarity with movements of struggle for liberation here and abroad. See More is a non-traditional, self-taught Xicané MC, Producer/Composer, Spoken Word Poet, Graffiti and Projection Mapping Artist, Filmmaker, and Educator based out of the Twin Cities, MN. Their work interweaves liberation narratives, mythology, science fiction, spirituality, and [...]
MN Joe Tran
Currently, not booking programs until after February 2026. JOSEPH ‘MN JOE’ TRAN is a founding member of BRKFST Dance Company based in the Twin Cities, MN and is a former member of the world-renowned breaking crew Knuckleheads Cali, respected for their uniquely intricate and non-traditional methods of movement. Tran is known for his signature moves [...]
MaLLy
MaLLy loves engaging students in conversations around identity, their community, life, their interests, expectations, goal setting and dreams for the future. These conversations usually serve as the launching pad for a multitude of topics to write about and share with their peers. In addition to the bigger questions about life and our existence on earth [...]
