Creative Individuals-Round 1

Gwendolyn Barber: Barber is the founder and director of Right to the Solution, a consulting agency for individuals and organizations aiding in development, improvement, and training. Barber has also been the director for Resources, Justice & Management and the Conflict Resolution Center, both nonprofits, serving the Twins Cities metro area. Barber is an honors graduate of Walden University with a master?s in business administration focused on management, development, and improvement. She is a candidate for her doctor?s degree completing all her course work with a 4.0 GPA. She has been part of the National Honor Society since 2013.; Em Christie: Christie is a writer, painter, theater artist, and arts advocate from Moorhead. Christie hides painted rocks around their community to make strangers smile; hosts free, public rock painting events; and teaches rock painting through community education programs. Christie is currently writing a book about the positive impact of rock painting. In addition, Christie is a lifelong lover of theater holding many positions including acting, directing, adapting, and tech jobs. Most recently, Christie served on Theatre B's artistic direction committee for three years.; Katharine Horowitz: Horowitz is a theatrical sound designer, composer, and teaching artist in Minneapolis. She has designed critically acclaimed and award winning shows for the Guthrie Theater, Children's Theatre Company, The Jungle Theater, History Theatre, Creede Repertory Theatre, Mixed Blood Theatre, Pillsbury House Theatre, Great River Shakespeare Festival, Second City Theatricals, and many others. Horowitz is a professional member of the Theatrical Sound Designers and Composers Association, a 2017 McKnight Theatre Artist Fellow at the Playwrights' Center, and a visiting assistant professor at Macalester College.; Jenna Kubly: Kubly received her PhD in drama from Tufts University. Kubly served on the Tufts Library committee, Tufts graduate student awards committee, and the graduate committee for the American Society for Theater Research. She has convened/presented on numerous theater history research groups, and published reviews, encyclopedia articles, and original research. Kubly's theater production credits include Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Box Wine Theater, and the Phipps Center.; Patrick Lichty: Lichty is a technological artist, writer, curator, educator, and activist who has investigated how media shapes reality. Lichty is known as part of the activist groups RTMark and The Yes Men. He has an MFA in computer art from Bowling Green State University, is a Herb Alpert/Calarts Fellow (also Alpert and SIGGRAPH juror), and is a recipient of the New Century/New Media Award from the Smithsonian Museum of American Art. He has been featured in more than 10 biennials, including Whitney, Venice, and Yokohama. He is an assistant professor of creative digital media at Winona State University.; Lee Smalt: Smalt is an analytical content creator and creative strategist with more than ten years of experience in creative roles. He graduated from Minnesota State University Moorhead with a degree in cultural anthropology with an emphasis in media analysis. Since 2011, Smalt has worked with organizations and individuals to develop their voices in a vibrant media ecosystem. His career journey started out as a freelance graphic designer and photographer, and eventually moved into videography, Web design, motion design, and 3D animation. Smalt volunteers with the North Dakota State University College of Business to mentor students entering the workforce, and with a global mentorship website called ADPList.org, which focuses heavily on Web design, leadership training, and project management. His working website is www.leeallen.us.; Jeffrey Stocco: Stocco is an artist who specializes in wooden bowls and spoons. He is a member of the Mankato MakerSpace, where he teaches courses on bowl making and, as a volunteer, demonstrates his craft to a wider audience.; Michelle Wingard: Wingard is an installation based photographer, curator, and arts educator. She is professor of art and gallery director of Bethel University?s two exhibition spaces. In her fifteen years of programming exhibitions, Wingard has worked with more than eighty artists in a diverse range of media. Her photographic and curatorial projects often seek to create experiential and participatory opportunities exploring themes of memory, grief, memorial, perception, and interconnection. She has curated several exhibitions and has also exhibited her own photographic work locally and nationally. She is the recipient of the Jerome Travel Grant (2015) and the Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative grant (2017 and 2019). Wingard holds an MFA in photography from Pratt Institute (Brooklyn, NY)(2006).