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 [...]
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Karla Nweje
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 [...]
Joyce Sidman
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
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
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, [...]
DJ Kool Akiem
DJ Kool believes that within Hip-Hop culture is an often misunderstood form of creativity, ingenuity, and originality which can be applied to any path in life. As a teaching artist DJ Kool attempts to communicate these practical lessons he has learned throughout his career in an inspirational, thought provoking and ‘cool’ exploration of history and [...]
Deacon Warner
Deacon Warner has taught filmmaking to youth in the Twin Cities since 2007. As Youth Programs Director at FilmNorth in Saint Paul he led after school programming, summer camps, in-school residencies and professional opportunities. Before leading the youth program at FilmNorth, Deacon was a social studies teacher at North High in Minneapolis and the co-founder [...]
Christopher Lutter-Gardella
For three decades Chris has been working to inspire and facilitate original thinking in the realms of theatrical, educational and public-art design. Chris received a 2006 Bush Artist Fellowship, a 2008 Public Art Saint Paul Sustainable Practices Fellowship and a 2012 McKnight Theater Artist Fellowship. In 2016 Chris founded Big Animal Productions LLC, a public [...]
