Sarah Abdel-Jelil is a Mauritanian-American filmmaker, dancer, musician, and multimedia artist based in Minneapolis, Mni Sota Makoce (Minnesota), USA. Inspired by her nomadic upbringing in a multicultural, interfaith household across eight different countries, her work explores the relational nature of home, movement, and liminal spaces as well as the tether between human and the more-than-human [...]
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Silvana Agostoni
Silvana Agostoni is a Minneapolis-based photographer and multimedia artist with more than 20 years of practice in photography, digital imaging, graphic design, animation, and interactive media. She holds an MFA in photography from the School of Visual Arts in New York and has designed interactive museum experiences—touchscreens, augmented reality, video mapping—for audiences of all ages [...]
Rocky Casillas Aguirre
Rocky Casillas Aguirre is a bilingual visual artist, cartoonist, muralist, and children’s book author and illustrator whose work combines humor, imagination, and storytelling to explore mindfulness and mental health. Rocky is the founder of Rokaturas, a MN-based arts and entertainment studio centered on destigmatizing mental health through books, animations, galleries, and workshops. He is best [...]
Ardaa Ensemble
Ardaa Ensemble is led by poet Ahmed Yusuf on vocals with Magan playing the Oud and vocals, and fellow COMPAS Teaching Artist and Performer mick laBriola on percussion. After fleeing Somalia, Ahmed Ismail Yusuf lived in several states, but has lived in Minneapolis, Minnesota, since 1997. He did not speak English when he arrived, he [...]
Victor Yepez
I strongly believe that art is for everybody. In my sculpture I utilize recycled materials because of their aesthetic properties and also with an ecological message for future generations. My hope is that my work will play a role in creating a positive future with respect for the earth, justice and dignity for everyone. I [...]
Raki Kopernik
Raki is a first-generation American Jewish writer. She is the author of The Things You Left and The Memory House, both Minnesota Book Award finalists, and the new novel, No One’s Leaving. In 2022, The Memory House was taught in classrooms at Anoka-Ramsey Community College, where she was the Two Rivers Reading Series Author, and [...]
