Edna Stevens is a choreographer, performer, and teaching artist who has taken her craft locally, nationally, and internationally. She has performed and offered instructional dance presentations in Korea, Japan, and Nigeria, and led Gospel devotions in Senegal. She taught at three secondary schools in Nigeria and two in The Gambia. Edna got her start in [...]
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Duo Mythos
Duo Mythos is a unit with Momoko Tanno (singer/actor) and Asako Hirabayashi (composer/harpsichordist). Momoko Tanno has appeared on many stages of the Twin Cities and beyond as a singer/actor including in the production of Don Juan Giovanni with Theatre de la Jeune Lune which won a Regional Tony Award, and Asako Hirabayashi is a McKnight [...]
Moira Villiard
Through public art collaborations across Minnesota, Moira Villiard (pronounced “Miri”) is a multidisciplinary artist who uses art to uplift underrepresented narratives, explore the nuance of society’s historical community intersections, and promote community healing spaces. She is proficient in a variety of artistic mediums and genres, including public art, painting, digital and graphic design, animation, photography, [...]
Renee Vaughan
Renee Vaughan is a Minnesota-based musician and educator who brings Sweden’s folk traditions to life through the resonant sound of the nyckelharpa, the national folk instrument of Sweden. The nyckelharpa has roots as far back as the 1350s, with depictions in Norway, Denmark, and Finland during the 1400s–1500s, and some of the earliest Swedish immigrants [...]
Karen Caldwell
Karen Caldwell is a British-born Barbadian artist whose abstract works explore transformation, identity, and connection through layered textures and shifting light. Working primarily with acrylics, palette knives, and metallics, she creates pieces that evolve throughout the day, inviting new perspectives with every glance. Her work has been exhibited in Europe, the Caribbean, and North America, [...]
Constanza Carballo
Constanza Carballo is a bilingual, bicultural Latina artist and nurse based in Minnesota. Her art practice began in 1991 and is deeply rooted in community engagement, storytelling, and the traditions of printmaking, mosaic, mural, and public art. She works to create spaces where art is not only seen but also experienced and shared collectively; sparking [...]
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 [...]
Sarina Partridge
Sarina Partridge is a musician, song-leader, educator and activist based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She feels most alive when learning, creating and sharing songs — especially songs that grow out of time spent in wild places. Sarina sings with a wide variety of music projects: community choir song-leading; singing/ playing with folk trio Heartwood; and performing [...]
