Creative Individuals-Round 1

James Bartsch: Minneapolis resident 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 2-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. He enjoys the vibrant arts opportunities in Minnesota?from individual artists to arts organizations of all sizes.; Michael Brown: Brown is the founder of Como Lake Marketing Partners, a consulting firm providing strategic and marketing advice to arts and other nonprofit organizations. It seeks to help these organizations build community through shared values and understanding. Clients include the St. Paul Art Collective, The Phipps Center for the Arts, Skylark Opera Theatre, the Saint Paul Art Crawl, the City of Big Lake. Past experience includes director of community relations and marketing at Target, and VP of marketing and branding at GREATER MSP. In addition to working with organizations, Brown is an actor and frequent volunteer with arts organizations. He has a BS from Marquette University and MBA from the Carlson School of Management.; Laura Habein: Habein is a senior associate at Fredrikson & Byron, P.A., where she practices benefits and executive compensation law. Habein has played the violin since she was in second grade, including four years in orchestra at Concordia College. The arts are her passion, and she has supported museums, art galleries, and musical groups in the communities in which she has lived. She served as a member of Give502 and as an advocate for Family and Children's Place while she lived in Louisville, KY. She volunteered as a violin teacher while in high school in Billings, MT. Habein moved to Minnesota in 2021 and is eager to support the arts in Minnesota.; Nahid Khan: Khan is the longest serving board member of Mizna, the Twin Cities based Arab American / Southwest Asian and North African (SWANA) arts organization. He has served since the inception of the board in 1999, and has helped grow the organization from working board member at all levels to a staffed organization, currently serving as board secretary. She has been a guide at the Minneapolis Institute of Art since 2004. She has a BA from Purdue University in mass communication-journalism (minor in library and information science), a MA from the University of Minnesota in mass communication (minor in religious studies), and was a PhD candidate (ABD) at UM in mass communication (minors in religious studies and museum studies). She is an independent researcher, scholar, writer, and community advocate.; Anne Ludvik: Ludvik graduated from Minnesota State University, Mankato with a BS in environmental science where she now works with faculty seeking project funding in the office of research and sponsored programs. She has a lifelong love of music, and participated in the Mankato Area Youth Symphony, MSU/Mankato Orchestra, and ensemble groups. As a certified Suzuki teacher, she taught lessons while pursuing her career as an environmental scientist. Ludvik served as a volunteer board member for the Recycling Association of Minnesota, Minnesota Composting Council, Blue Earth County Recycling Education Committee, and currently volunteers with Mankato Area Zero Waste.; Jeanette Lukowski: Lukowski is a college English professor, in her twenty-first year of teaching, currently teaching online courses for San Juan College in Farmington, NM. She holds a BA in English from the University of Minnesota, a MA in English from St. Cloud State University, and an MFA in creative writing from Goddard College (Plainfield, VT). Lukowski is a writer with a published body of work that includes two memoirs, scholarly essays, and poetry. She is a regular contributor of articles to The Country Register (published bimonthly across the USA and Canada), and volunteers with several nonprofit social organizations.