Sister Patricia Brown is a Twin Cities-based dancer, choreographer, performer, and Teaching Artist who has enriched the region’s arts community for more than 30 years. Through African-based movement instruction, she connects dance traditions from West Africa, the Caribbean, and the Americas, bringing cultural history and creative expression to learners of all ages. As a Teaching [...]
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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 [...]
Mary Evans
Screenshot Mary Evans is an interdisciplinary contemporary artist and educator working across sculpture, textiles, painting, drawing, experimental video, and multimedia installation. She holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Practice from the University of Oregon and a BFA in Printmaking from The Evergreen State College. Her studio practice is rooted in material exploration and an interest in [...]
Rocky Casillas Aguirre
Rocky Casillas Aguirre is a bilingual visual artist, cartoonist, muralist, and children’s book author and illustrator whose work combines humor, imagination, and storytelling to explore mindfulness and mental health. Rocky is the founder of Rokaturas, a MN-based arts and entertainment studio centered on destigmatizing mental health through books, animations, galleries, and workshops. He is best [...]
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 [...]
Cahoot?! Physical Theatre
Cahoot?! Physical Theatre consists of 5 performers and artists from across the country and beyond. They met and began dreaming of this ensemble while studying together at Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre, the premier institute for physical theatre in the world. All five artists spent three years honing their craft and began to devise [...]
Edna Stevens
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 [...]
Thomasina Petrus
Thomasina Petrus is a 25-year equity actor and professional jazz vocalist, a company member at Penumbra Theatre, Mixed Blood Theatre, and Park Square Theatre, and has performed with the Twin Cities’ most beloved artists. Mentors and friends, James “Cornbread” Harris, Sr., Javetta Steele, T. Mycheal Rambo, Stokley, Walter Chancellor, Austene Cleopatra Van, and Prince, have encouraged [...]
