STEAM Aligned

Lisa Arnold believes that art changes people and people change the world. She encourages her students to engage with themselves and the diverse world around them by using their life experiences to create art and art experiences to create their lives. Her main goal is to empower students by honing their visual, technical, and poetic [...]

Kevin is an award-winning author, storyteller, and teaching artist who has been using stories to entertain, educate, and inspire children and adults for over 20 years. Based in Rochester, Minnesota, Kevin has traveled the Midwest performing at schools, libraries, preschools, and community events. Energetic and dynamic, Kevin’s stories grab his audiences and leave them wanting [...]

Not currently booking in person programs. Kelley Meister works as a teaching artist with COMPAS, and at the Science Museum of Minnesota. Kelley teaches stop-motion animation, documentary and narrative filmmaking, digital photography, computer game design, creative circuitry, photographic printmaking, and other technology-infused arts. Kelley’s teaching philosophy is rooted in inquiry, exploration, and process. Merging new [...]

Karla is a choreographer, performer, literary artist, and arts educator. After obtaining teaching credentials, she worked as a NYC high school language arts teacher by day and a performer by night. During this time, she used movement and theater arts techniques to enhance the learning process in her classroom. The positive results she witnessed affirmed [...]

Portraits of Joyce Sideman on Friday, Dec. 8, 2017, in Wayzata, Minn. (HMH/Andy Clayton-King) Requests not available: Joyce is not taking new programs. Joyce Sidman is the author of almost twenty children’s books, including the Newbery Honor-winning Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night, and two Minnesota Book Award winners. She recently received an [...]

Jon Lurie joined the COMPAS artists roster in 2008 following a two-decade stint as a print and radio journalist in Native American communities from Texas to Alaska. He also served as editor of The Anchorage Press and Rake Magazine. Lurie has received two Gold Awards for his long form journalism by the Minnesota Newspapers Association [...]

Heidi Jeub is a teaching artist with over two decades of experience, specializing in bookbinding, visual journaling, and abstract painting. Since 2003, she has shared her passion for art with students of all ages, drawing on her own experience as an “alternative learner” to create engaging, interdisciplinary lessons that connect art to subjects like literature, [...]