Arts Education

James Bartsch: Bartsch has been active in Minnesota's arts and education communities for many years. A graduate of the University of Minnesota in music education and violin performance, he has taught public school orchestra programs in Northfield, Red Wing, and Mounds View schools. He retired from full-time teaching in June 2022. He was Minnesota Orchestra's director of education from 1999-2013. Bartsch is a longtime conductor with the Minnesota Youth Symphonies, including a two-year term as interim coartistic director, and is a teacher with the Augsburg University Suzuki violin program. He is a freelance violinist in the area, past president of the Minnesota String and Orchestra Teachers Association, and has served on the Minneapolis Arts Commission. ; Gloria Brush: Brush is professor in photography at the University of Minnesota Duluth and earned a MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Minnesota State Arts Board, and the 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, Lillstreet Gallery in Chicago, the 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.; Julia Heinen: Heinen is an active, professional clarinetist, performing concerts worldwide as a soloist and chamber musician. She is a professor of music at California State University, Northridge (CSUN), and affiliate faculty in clarinet at the University of Minnesota. She has served as the director of community engagement at CSUN and served a three-year term as the interim associate dean for the College of Arts, Media, and Communication at CSUN. She holds degrees in music from the Universities of Minnesota, Michigan, and Northwestern. ; Kim Matthews: Matthews sculpts and draws in mixed media, emphasizing process and materiality to engage viewers in reflection. A 2010?2011 Jerome fiber artist grant recipient, she served as a Minnesota State Arts Board grant panelist in 2022, 2021, and 2020. Matthews exhibits throughout the U. S. and in 2017 she participated in her first international exhibition in Ukraine. Her work is featured in Lark Books' 500 Paper Objects and Artistry in Fiber, Volume II: Sculpture, published by Schiffer. She studied art and art history at the Universities of Maine and Minnesota and graduated from Minneapolis Technical College's commercial art program in 1992.