Creative Individuals-Round 2

Gloria Brush: Gloria DeFilipps Brush is Professor in Photography at UMD and earned the M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has received awards from the NEA, MSAB, Bush and McKnight Foundations among others. Her work has appeared in exhibitions nationally and internationally, including at the Photographic Resource Center at Boston University, the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans, Lil Street Gallery in Chicago, and D-ART Gallery for the IV2020 International Symposium on Digital Art, and in Rosenblum?s book A History of Women Photographers. Prior to her university tenure, she was the first Director of the Arrowhead Regional Arts Council. ; Pamela Caserta Hugdahl: Hugdahl is the executive director of the Rochester Art Center where she has emphasized the organization?s founding purposes to give citizens and visitors the opportunity to know, practice, and enjoy the arts in a community art center. Hugdahl received an MA in art history and a certificate in nonprofit management from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She serves on the board of the Choral Arts Ensemble.; Andrea Gilats: Gilats is a writer, artist, and educator who has published a highly praised memoir, After Effects: A Memoir of Complicated Grief (University of Minnesota Press, 2022). Her most recent book, Radical Endurance: Truths and Transformations While Growing Old in an Age of Longevity, is forthcoming from the University of Minnesota Press. She served for twenty years as the founding director of the University of Minnesota?s legendary Split Rock Arts Program, received a Next Step grant from Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, and was a featured writer in the Minnesota Humanities Center?s Minnesota Writers Series.; Andrea Myers: Myers received her BM in flute performance and a minor in nonprofit management from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. After graduation, she served on the Upper Midwest Flute Association?s board of directors for five years and is a cofounder of the Upper Midwest Flute Association?s Scholarship Program which invests in flutists of all ages and abilities, providing financial support for lessons and other educational opportunities. During her time as scholarship coordinator, from 2016-2018, over $2,500 in scholarships were awarded to Upper Midwest student flutists. Myers is a sought-after teacher and organizer. She was a founding teacher and executive director of Hopewell Music Cooperative North, and also previously held positions of program manager and director of operations. During her time at Hopewell, in addition to providing executive leadership, she grew the lesson program from 50 to 100+ students, established the first flute choir in the northside, and built vital infrastructure. In 2017, she joined the Suzuki teaching faculty at Saint Paul Conservatory of Music and became the codirector of the Lake Sylvia Flute Institute; Angelina Nguyen: Nguyen is a Vietnamese American writer and photographer. Having arrived in Minnesota as a refugee child, her art focuses on healing intergenerational trauma. She has worked in the nonprofit sector, state government, and as a solopreneur. She served as a judge for the Minnesota Book Awards. She holds degrees in economics, political science, math, and international development from the University of Minnesota.; Madelyn Ripperger: Ripperger is an actor, director, teacher, and arts administrator. By day, she serves as the education and programs manager for Children's Performing Arts in White Bear Lake, where she creates and evaluates theater education opportunities for students in kindergarten through twelfth grade. Ripperger has been seen onstage around the Twin Cities at Lakeshore Players Theatre, The Phipps Center for the Arts, Minneapolis Musical Theatre, and Aethem Theatre Company. She holds a BFA in musical theater from Drake University.; Jeffrey Sherman: Sherman has an extensive history working in the theater, dance, film, and arts community in Minnesota. Sherman attended the University of Minnesota for theater and dance, and currently works as an exhibitions media technician for the Walker Art Center as well as freelancing as a stage manager, lighting/sound designer, and technical director for a number of local dance and theater companies, as well as the Northern Spark festival. Additionally, he does art direction work for film. Sherman has produced his own intermedia performances works, art shanties, and haunted basement installations. He is a member of the Nanotako creative collective.; Kathryn Vogl: Vogl is the author of Lost & Found: A Memoir of Mothers, which was featured on national ABC news and named among the best of the year by the Akron Beacon Journal. She is the coauthor of Lady Ref: Making Calls in a Man?s World, and Iron Horse Cowgirls: Louise Scherbyn and the Women Motorcyclists of the 1930s and 1940s. Her work appears in Prairie Schooner and in best selling anthologies like Why We Ride. Her fiction has received support from the Minnesota State Arts Board and the Anderson Center. Vogl teaches at the Loft Literary Center.; Linda Zelig: Zelig serves as director of music at Path of Grace UMC where she has responsibility for a music series, an adult choir, all service music, and a children?s musical. She also sings with CorVoce, a semiprofessional choral ensemble in the metro area. Zelig previously sang with VocalEssence and has enjoyed a solo career with various chamber groups and orchestras. She has taught music at North Central University and Gustavus Adolphus College. Zelig graduated from Concordia College in Moorhead with a bachelor of music degree, and earned a master of arts in organizational leadership from St. Catherine University.