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 [...]
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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 [...]
Bart Buch
Bart Buch believes one of the most important contributions both artists and educators can make is to help develop a sense of real self-confidence in individuals through expression and growth of specific gifts or talents they have to share. Bart fosters the birth and growth of these unique gifts through puppetry arts residencies. Puppetry arts [...]
Andrew Young
Andrew Young (he/they) is a Taiwanese-Indonesian-American puppeteer, artist, and educator based in Minneapolis. They received their puppeteer training through Monkeybear’s Harmolodic workshop, a Black, Native, and POC focused puppetry organization, and has since worked for Mayday and Barebones as a staff artist/performer, as well as continued to create their own work. They have also been [...]
