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Board: Jan Elftmann
Melinda Hobbs
Karen Kasel
Mitch Redepenning
Peter Haakon Thompson
Director: David Pitman
Administration: Cassandra Monson
is a professional artist and a freelance art teacher. Cassandra has a BFA form the College of Visual Arts and many years of teaching experience. She teaches art classes all over the Twin Cites and facilitates community-based collaborative public art projects and artist residences in public and private schools. Cassandra teaches students to invest themselves in the creative process so that they will build a quality product. She has a fluid but organized teaching style that works with children and adults of all ages. She teaches all art forms from painting to papermaking and sculpture to bookmaking. Cassandra combines quality art materials with reusing and recycling to enhance her student’s creative problem solving skills and promote environmental consciousness. She is interested in facilitating collaborative work that incorporates history and culture in the artistic process.
Communications: Morgan L'Argent
is a bricoleur. His artistic endeavors range from photography to electronics to light and antique technology. Morgan's best-known piece, Couchmobile, has been a crowd favorite at the annual Minneapolis ArtCar Parade since 2002. His works have been exhibited at Intermedia Arts, Minnesota Museum of American Art, Weisman Art Museum, a guerrilla show at the Walker Art Center, and other local galleries. Morgan lives in Minneapolis and likes winter.
Grant Writing: Shanai Matteson
Press Secretary: Andrew Sturdevant
is a Minneapolis-based writer, artist and curator who is a regular contributor to ARP!, mnartists.org's access+ENGAGE and The Rake's Thousandth Word blog. He curated the History Room: 20 Years of No Name and the Soap Factory exhibition at The Soap Factory this year, and is currently working on an accompanying book about the gallery's history. Andy is also a contributor to the Electric Arc Radio Show music and performance series, which begins its new season this fall at the Ritz Theater in northeast Minneapolis. He lives in Powderhorn Park.