Creative Individuals-Round 2

Mark Lambert: Lambert is a part of the art faculty at Anoka-Ramsey Community College. As a faculty member, Lambert has organized numerous clay workshops, curated traveling exhibitions, and directed the documentaries Minnesota Potters: Sharing the Fire and Warren MacKenzie: A Potters Hands. His ceramic works have been exhibited internationally.; Logan Nelson: Nelson is an associate development officer, corporate and foundation relations at the University of Minnesota Foundation. With a focus on foundation relations, Nelson's work consists of partnering with other development officers, faculty, and staff of the University of Minnesota to secure grant funding for various programs and research happening within the University of Minnesota. Prior to this, he spent his last seven years in Iowa City attaining his BA in enterprise leadership from the University of Iowa and then as an assistant director of development for the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics.; Tara Priolo: Priolo is known to most as ?your resident white-facing, biracial, multipassionate musician?. She is, among other things, a soprano, brand coach, voice teacher, activist/diversity counselor, and arts administrator. Priolo is the owner/operator of Tara Priolo Studio, operations manager of Thursday Musical, diversity counselor for Opera Reading Project, and a board member of Journey North Opera Company.; Hannah Rongitsch: Rongitsch is a writer, mother, and corporate dropout. She received a BA in English from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and spent a decade in corporate America as a project manager and communications specialist. Rongitsch lives in Minneapolis with her family.; Alessandra Sulpy: Sulpy is an associate professor of drawing and painting at Winona State University and is currently on sabbatical. She is a figurative acrylic and oil painter with fourteen years of higher education teaching experience. She recently served as a Winona fine arts commissioner, where part of her duties included awarding local art grants. She received her BFA in painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art, and her MFA in painting from Indiana University.; Hayley Zacheis: Zacheis is a community advocate with a local domestic violence agency, where they have experience running a microgrant program designed to give victim survivors financial assistance with as few barriers as possible. Zacheis graduated with a BA in international studies and biology from Macalester College in 2021. They are a cellist who plays in the JCC Symphony Orchestra, as well as in pit orchestras throughout Minnesota. In their spare time, Zacheis is a dancer and also enjoys fiber arts of all kinds. Zacheis served as a reviewer for the Minnesota State Arts Board in the last grant cycle.