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 [...]
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 [...]
Dave Walbridge “Peter Ace”
Peter Ace is magic. He’s been entertaining people all over the US for more than 25 years. He delights audiences by demonstrating the impossible with illusions, sleight of hand, and comedy. Peter Ace can present a show on stage, teach beginner workshops, or perform expert sleight of hand magic — sometimes all in the same [...]
Jess Night
Jess has been exploring art her entire life and was introduced to her first fire art form, cast metal, as a teenager. She has since grown her love of creating with heat, spark, and flame to include enamel, blacksmithing, jewelry arts, welding, and encaustic painting. She creates work ranging from jewelry to public art scale, [...]
Gita Ghei
Gita Ghei is a multi-ethnic sculptor specializing in public art and teaching. Her father was from India and her mother from Red Wing. She identifies as a second-generation immigrant and woman of color. She has lived in the North End neighborhood in St. Paul for 23 years and has a studio in SE Minneapolis. After [...]
Evie Digirolamo
Evie Digirolamo is a theatre maker who specializes in new plays made from scratch. Her work is highly physical, using partner acrobatics and aerial arts, highly collaborative, and highly innovative, using multiple art forms (poetry, music, puppetry, and more) to tell a story. Evie invested 12 years as a principal teaching artist with Upstream Arts, [...]
Jinjer Markley
Jinjer Markley is an artist, illustrator, and color nerd in Minneapolis, MN. Her formal training is in science: She has an M.M.s in Plant Biology. She also formally studied science teaching and formerly taught middle school science. Her interest in math and science leaks into everything she does, including her abstract watercolor painting. Working with [...]
Moira Villiard
Through public art collaborations across Minnesota, Moira Villiard (pronounced “Miri”) is a multidisciplinary artist of Ojibwe, European, and Lenape heritage 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, [...]



