Artist Initiative
Artist Initiative
Petrus will research and write her first young adult novel, "Death Sentence."
Ardell Brede: Mayor of Rochester, elected 2002; Peggy Burnet: Businesswoman, art collector, and community volunteer. Member of the Smithsonian National Board. Former chair of the board, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Uri Camarena: Business consultant, Metropolitan Economic Development Association. Board chair, Minneapolis College of Art and Design.; Michael Charron: Dean of the School of the Arts, Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota. Officer at -Large, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Rebecca Davis-Lee: Touring pianist, piano and music theory teacher. Vice Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Sean Dowse, Mayor of Red Wing, elected 2016. Former executive director, Sheldon Theatre. Board member for Minnesota Citizens for the Arts. Secretary/Treasurer, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Thomas Moss: Consultant to nonprofits and government agencies.; Dobson West: Senior advisor, Spell Capital Partners Fund; Christina Widdess: Arts organization consultant; former managing director, Penumbra Theatre. Vice Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.
Ashley Benites: Novelist, writing instructor, Arts Board grantee; Victoria Blanco: Writer and teaching artist; Arts Board grantee; Karlyn Coleman: Writer; teaching artist at the Loft; Arts Board grantee; Shannon Gibney: Author and activist; teaches in English department at MCTC; Margaret Newman: Writer and teacher; Arts Board grantee; Matthew Ryan: Writer, English professor at Concordia St. Paul; Arts Board grantee; Michele Valenti: Writer, winner of Loft Mentor Series in fiction
ACHF Arts Access
To develop as a writer of longer works for the page by writing my first young adult novel. I will do this through the research, mentorship and writing of my first book and allow audiences to experience my writing in a new form, I will accomplish this aspect of my objective. 2: To write a complicated and beautiful work that represents new Minnesotan narrative. I will do this through telling a unique story from a heroine that is falling in love while dying slow and intersecting themes of sexuality, incarceration, blackness and magic.
I developed as a writer of longer works of fiction, by completing my first young adult novel. Over the course of this year, I wrote, researched, edited, and revised this book until completion. It is finished and with my copy-editor and will debut in September 2019 on Dutton Press. 2: I wrote a young adult novel that highlighted the community and landscape of Minnesota in all its diversity and layers. In the book I included the themes of sexuality, incarceration, blackness and magic and loss and transformation in the sacred land of Minnesota. Minnesota was a healing and profound element in the lives of these characters.