Accessible Arts

Daryl Hrdlicka: Hrdlicka is involved in many of the creative and performing arts. He is an award winning actor and filmmaker, a musician/songwriter, the president of the Westbrook Arts Center, and a homeschool educator. He has an AA degree in open studies from Mankato State University (now Minnesota State University, Mankato).; Anthony Marchetti: Marchetti is a photographic artist residing in the Twin Cities. In 2016, he was a teaching/research Fulbright Scholar in Budapest, Hungary. He currently serves as department chair and full-time faculty of photography at Anoka-Ramsey Community College. Marchetti graduated from Gustavus Adolphus College in 2001 with a BA in fine arts and received a MFA from the University of Minnesota in 2005. He has received grants from The McKnight Foundation, Jerome Foundation, and the Minnesota State Arts Board. He has served on review panels for the Minnesota State Arts Board and the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council.; Sharon McBrayer: McBrayer has long experience in the workforce, much of it in education and social services. S/he achieved an award for giving 27 years at Hennepin County. S/he began as a financial worker for entitlement programs and retired as a senior social worker. Within the Department of Children and Family Services, McBrayer worked in programs such as developmental disabilities intake, work readiness, and truancy and educational neglect. Also, s/he performed five jobs in seven years at Pillsbury United Communities, a United Way agency. Volunteer positions included staffing community dinners and tutoring. Early on, McBrayer taught, either as a second grade teacher or as a preschool teacher, with art as content of the total education. More recently, in 2022, McBrayer collected data for a temporary agency, when placed at a law firm that assists persons with disabilities when applying for the Social Security program. S/he has a bachelor of science degree in education/art and a master?s degree in counseling and psychological services from Saint Mary's University of Minnesota.; Laura Steefel-Moore: In her fifteen years as a museum educator, Steefel-Moore has worked at a diverse range of art institutions across the country including the Museum of Modern Art and the Cleveland Clinic Art Program. Most recently, she spent seven years at The Ringling Museum (Sarasota, FL) where she initiated new accessibility programs, arts and health partnerships, and the museum's community gallery space. Steefel-Moore moved home to Minnesota in 2022 and now works at an assisted living home leading art programs, and as a remote writer/editor for The Ringling. Steefel-Moore?s interests include accessible arts programming, creative virtual learning experiences, and the ongoing work of making museums more equitable.; Juliana Thrall: Thrall has a master?s degree in creative arts therapy from Pratt Institute and is currently completing her PhD in art therapy at Adler University. She is the field experience coordinator/assistant professor in the master's in art therapy program at Adler Graduate School in Minnetonka. She has been working in Minnesota as an art therapist and artist since 2014 and during this time, she has provided services to and collaborated with community groups serving adolescents, veterans, college students, and more. She previously served on the board of the Minnesota Art Therapy Association and has a deep passion for community building.; Moira Villiard: Villiard is a multidisciplinary artist with a mixed Indigenous and settler heritage who uses art to uplift underrepresented narratives, explore the nuance of society?s historical community intersections, and promote community healing spaces. Villiard is a dynamic visual artist and muralist, proficient in a variety of artistic genres including portraiture, illustration, and graphic digital design. She also is a community organizer, curator, and passionate arts educator concentrating her efforts around issues of equity and justice including arts access (creating platforms for underrepresented communities within the arts), creative placemaking, environmental sustainability, youth empowerment, and acknowledgement of Indigenous land, culture, and history. She received her bachelor?s degree in communicating arts (with a global studies minor) from the University of Wisconsin-Superior in 2016 and an associate of liberal arts degree from Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College.