Creative Individuals-Round 2

Anna Fellegy: Fellegy is the retired vice president of academic affairs at Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College (2009-2013; 2016-2022) and former English department writing faculty member (1998- 2009). Fellegy's experience includes writing and overseeing a wide range of grant funded projects from tribal, federal, and state organizations. She served for two years on the Saint Paul Foundation?s readers panel for the William Dietrich, Corrine Dietrich, and William and Corrine Dietrich scholarships. Her personal artistic endeavors include honorable mention award for Industry and Fog in the 2015 Minnesota State Fair?s photography competition, publication of The Return of Spring in Woods Reader (spring 2018), and design and editorial work on a variety of projects, including Indigenous Youth Freedom Project: A Leadership Curriculum (21015) by Brian McInnes, Roxanne DeLille, et al.; I Gotta Say Something, Just Not This: Words that Hurt the Bereaved (2016) by Patricia Grace-Probst and Coral Popowitz, first edition of Ojibwe Sky Star Map: An Introduction to Ojibwe Star Knowledge (2014) by Annette Lee, et al., and first edition of D(L)akota Star Map: An Introduction to D(L)akota Star Knowledge (2014) by Annette Lee, et al.; Lorissa Gottschalk O'Brien: Gottschalk, MFA, is a writer whose work explores and embraces the influence of nature, grief, death, and recovery in our everyday lives. Her work has appeared in Water-Stone Review, Confluence, and various academic publications. From 2008-2016, Gottschalk ran the assistantship mentoring program and taught at St. Catherine University. She is a 2016-2017 Loft Mentorship Series finalist, a recipient of a 2017 Minnesota Emerging Writers grant, a 2018 Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative grant, a 2019 Metropolitan Regional Arts Council Next Step Fund grant, and a 2020 Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative grant. Gottschalk lives in south Minneapolis with her husband and two daughters.; Maren Harden: Harden is a teaching artist who seeks to use business skills to uplift fellow artists in Minnesota. A skilled writer, Harden recently received education in grant writing and nonprofit accounting. Harden participated in published research on implicit bias, graduating with honors from Augsburg University. Harden is organized, highly adaptable, and hyper receptive. They are a creative problem solver, a skilled spatial thinker, and a lover of learning. Connections, from corporate to creative, have demonstrated their aptitude for developing relationships built on trust and mutual respect.; Cecily Harris: Cecily's career was in managing nonprofit organization and parks programs/policy/planning in public agencies. She earned a BS from University of Arizona in Renewable Natural Resources and MBA from Golden Gate University. Her current consulting practice focuses on fundraising, board and organizational development marketing, program design and strategic planning for nonprofit organizations and public agencies. Nonprofit conservation organizations, public agency park and recreation departments and open space districts are specialties. Now serves on ArtReach St Croix and Stillwater Area Community Foundation Boards of Directors and volunteers with Great Old Broads for Wilderness, New Century Club, and St Croix Valley Foundation; Melissa Higgs Kohler: Higgs is a grant writer for the Repertory Theater and board member for the League of Minnesota Poets and Red Bird Chapbooks. A recipient of a 2022 Minnesota State Arts Board Creative Support for Individuals grant, Higgs also works with Southeastern Minnesota Poets on poetry projects and events in Rochester. She is the author of three poetry chapbooks, most recently Earthen Bound, and her reviews and interviews can be found at the Poetry Foundation online, Kenyon Review Online, the Adroit Journal, and the Colorado Review. Higgs has a MFA in creative writing from Hamline University.; Kirk Hoaglund: Hoaglund is the founder and CEO of Clientek, Inc. Started in 1992, Clientek has become a successful software/system development partner to medium to large enterprises around the world. Hoaglund's interest in music/arts has been lifelong. Beginning in 2015, Hoaglund began building two new organizations focused on music/arts in Minnesota: Orpheus Music Project and 480 Arts.; Eric Mueller: Mueller is a photographer, artist, and teacher. His most recent exhibition was a solo show, Reset 2021, at the Minnesota Marine Art Museum. In 2020, Daylight Books published his photography book, Family Resemblance, which explores physical resemblance through the lens of an adoptee. Before becoming a photographer, he worked in film and television for 25 years. He has a MA in film production from the University of Iowa, and a BA from Carleton College.; Vanessa Reubendale: Reubendale recently completed her PhD in art history at the University of Minnesota. Her dissertation, ?Please Hold While I Connect You,? considered the emergence of intermedia performance in midcentury America as it aligned with parallel labors in the telecommunications industry in order to trouble the art history canon. She has taught classes on American photography, performance art, and the history of public funding and art controversies in the U. S. In 2019, she completed a residential fellowship at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American art and, in 2020, cochaired a panel at CAA?s annual conference on labor and participatory art.; Rebecca Tishman: Cerra is a queer, female artist living with physical disabilities and mental illness. Each of these identities inform the work she creates. Cerra provides one of a kind creations that combine traditional craft practices with contemporary art making approaches to imagine something truly unique and memorable. She is a full-time artist and arts educator. She serves as the education and access consultant at Chicago Avenue Fire Arts Center and also is a board member. She has a BFA in interdisciplinary sculpture from Maryland Institute College of Art.