Creative Individuals-Round 2

Samantha Bosch: As an educator, Bosch uses a creative play based approach to music that focuses on learning the building blocks of music early on. By incorporating numerous teaching methodologies including those of Dalcroze, Orff, and Kodaly, Bosch has developed an approach all her own and that she can pivot to meet the needs of her diverse students. Before moving back to Minnesota, Bosch worked as a middle school band and general music teacher in the New York City public schools. There she attended her master?s program at Hunter College as a Lincoln Center Scholar and was recipient of the Paul Simon fellowship. In her nearly twenty years of teaching music, Bosch has also held positions as teaching artist with the Seattle Symphony, wind instrument coach with Musical Pathways Project, education director with HONK! NYC, and taught private lessons and workshops through her own company, Samantha?s Music Studio. While Bosch has taught beginners on many instruments, she primarily teaches piano, flute, voice, music theory, and ensemble classes. Bosch holds a bachelor of music degree in flute performance from Cornish College of the Arts, and a master of music education from CUNY's Hunter College as a Lincoln Center Scholar.; Kimble Bromley: Bromley has been a professor of art for 38 years. He has worked at North Dakota State University for the past 27 years, teaching painting, drawing, and art history. He has previously served as a grant program advisor for Minnesota State Arts Board. He holds a MFA from Southern Illinois University and a MA from the University of Northern Iowa.; Christy Dickinson: Dickinson currently serves as the grants management coordinator for the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota and is a practicing visual artist who is part of a creative collective in Saint Paul. Her background includes more than two decades of working on arts and cultural programming in rural and urban communities with an eye on diversity, equity, and inclusion. One of the national projects she directed for more than fifteen years, on behalf of the National Endowment for the Arts, explored Shakespeare with middle and high school students. You can find her in the evenings working in her studio south of Harriet Island and participating in art festivals across the state.; Brianna Droege: Droege is an accomplished communicator with a background in development. She completed a BS in communication studies at Portland State University and graduated magna cum laude with departmental honors. While in college, she got her start crafting grant proposals and leveraged this experience into development internships with Make-A-Wish Oregon and Chamber Music Northwest. In her last position, Droege worked her way up to become assistant registrar at Saint Mary?s University of Minnesota, gaining valuable data and project management skills in the process. she is a lifelong film enthusiast and has played trombone since she was ten years old.; Mary Johnson: Johnson is the community engagement manager at the Minnesota Orchestra, where she presents interdisciplinary programs to engage audiences with diverse cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds, striving to eliminate barriers of access to the orchestra. This is done through collaborations and partnerships of pre- and post-concert experiences that create and deepen connections between the Minnesota Orchestra and the communities it serves, including concert and preview discussions with musicians and artists, performances, and exhibits. Before this role, she was the head of exhibitions at Swissnex in San Francisco for eight years, where she directed engagements with Swiss artists, designers, and architects, curating experimental and impactful exhibitions and public programs. For nine years, she served as a curator at the San Francisco Art Institute, and before that, she was the assistant librarian at the Walker Art Center. She holds master?s degrees in art history and cultural studies from the University of London, Birkbeck College. She is on the board of directors at the Museum of Danish America (Elk Horn, IA) and is a volunteer archivist at the Danish American Center in Minneapolis.; Leticia Snow: Born and raised in the desert southwest of Las Cruces, New Mexico, Snow ventured to the Midwest in 1997 to attend the University of Minnesota, where she studied journalism. Last year, she earned her master?s degree in human services with an emphasis in forensic behavioral health from Concordia University-Saint Paul. Snow works as the assistant library supervisor at the Saint Peter Library overseeing the teen/young adult programming and circulation. She is also a freelance writer for the Mankato Free Press and Mankato Magazine. Snow has authored several children?s books for Capstone Publishing. She serves as the vice president of the Saint Peter Good Neighbor Diversity Council and was a 2023 recipient of the Department of Transformation's Rural Ignite Artist Residency Grant.