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Past Panelists

The members of the preliminary and final selection panels for the Bush Artist Fellowships are all artists and arts professionals from outside Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota.

Preliminary panelists for the Enduring Vision Awards are also artists and arts professionals; preliminary selection panelists live and work primarily within Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota. The final selection panel for the EVA are the same national panel serving for the fellowships plus one regional panelist.

Panelists by year:

• 2009 panelists (Enduring Vision Awards) { VIEW }
  
• 2009 panelists (Bush Artist Fellowships) { VIEW }
  
• 2008 panelists (Enduring Vision Awards) { VIEW }
  
• 2008 panelists (Bush Artist Fellowships) { VIEW }
  

 

2009 Enduring Vision Awards Panelists
(+ denotes preliminary selection panel only)

Elizabeth Bennett { SHORT BIO }
Dramaturg and Arts Administrator
Brooklyn, New York

Michael Ching { SHORT BIO }
Composer and Artistic Director, Opera Memphis
Memphis, Tennessee

Hal Cropp +
Artistic Director, Commonweal Theater
Lanesboro, Minnesota

Rinde Eckert { SHORT BIO }
Writer, Composer, Performer and Director
Nyack, New York

Shannon Gibney +
2005 Bush Artist Fellow
Fiction Author, English Faculty MCTC
Minneapolis, Minneapolis

Meg Glaser { SHORT BIO }
Artistic Director, Western Folklife Center
Elko, Nevada

Jewelle Gomez { SHORT BIO }
Novelist and Grantmaker
San Francisco, California

Andrea Graham +
Folklorist, South Dakota Arts Council
Pierre, South Dakota

David Hamilton +
Artistic Director, Fargo-Moorhead Opera
Fargo, North Dakota

Dominic Taylor
Associate Artistic Director, Penumbra Theatre Company; Assistant Professor, Theatre Arts & Dance University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Georgia Wettlin-Larsen (Assiniboine/Nakota) +
Program Director, First Nations Composer Initiative, American Composer’s Forum
St. Paul, Minnesota

 

2009 Bush Artist Fellowships Panelists

Elizabeth Bennett { SHORT BIO }
Dramaturg and Arts Administrator
Brooklyn, New York

Don Byron { SHORT BIO }
Composer and Musician
Boiceville, New York

Michael Ching { SHORT BIO }
Composer and Artistic Director, Opera Memphis
Memphis, Tennessee

Linh Dinh { SHORT BIO }
Poet and Fiction Writer
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Rinde Eckert { SHORT BIO }
Writer, Composer, Performer and Director
Nyack, New York

Meg Glaser { SHORT BIO }
Artistic Director, Western Folklife Center
Elko, Nevada

Jewelle Gomez { SHORT BIO }
Novelist and Grantmaker
San Francisco, California

Fenton Johnson { SHORT BIO }
Novelist, Essayist, Professor of Creative Writing, University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona

Marc Bamuthi Joseph { SHORT BIO }
Artistic Director, Youth Speaks, Inc.
San Francisco, California

Mary Jane Leach { SHORT BIO }
Composer
Valley Falls, New York

James P. Leary { SHORT BIO }
Folklorist and Professor, Folklore and Scandinavian Studies, Director of the Folklore Program, University of Wisconsin
Madison, Wisconsin

Elizabeth Peterson { SHORT BIO }
Executive Director, Fund for Folk Culture
Austin, Texas

Deborah Riley { SHORT BIO }
Director, Dance Place
Washington, D.C.

Milos Stehlik { SHORT BIO }
Executive Director, Facets Multimedia
Chicago, Illinois

Karen Zacarias { SHORT BIO }
Playwright
Washington, D.C.

 

2008 Enduring Vision Awards Panelists
(+ denotes preliminary selection panel only)

Nick Cave { SHORT BIO }
Artist and Department Chair, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois

Roger Cummings+ { SHORT BIO }
Artistic Director, Juxtaposition Arts
Minneapolis, Minnesota

John Davis+ { SHORT BIO }
Executive Director, Cornucopia Art Center
Lanesboro, Minnesota

Troyd Geist+ { SHORT BIO }
State Folklorist, North Dakota Council on the Arts
Bismarck, North Dakota

Brian Knep { SHORT BIO }
New-media artist
Boston, Massachusetts

Ann Ledy+ { SHORT BIO }
Executive Vice President and Dean of Academic Affairs, College of Visual Arts
St. Paul, Minnesota

Yong Soon Min { SHORT BIO }
Artist and independent curator; Professor, University of California-Irvine
Irvine, California

Lori Lea Pourier (Oglala/Mnicoujou Lakota) { SHORT BIO }
President, First Peoples Fund
Rapid City, South Dakota

Angela Strassheim (Bush Artist Fellow 2006) + { SHORT BIO }
Photographer
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Va-Megn Thoj (Bush Artist Fellow 2005, Bush Leadership Fellow 2004)+ { SHORT BIO }
Filmmaker, community activist, and mayoral policy aide
Saint Paul, Minnesota

 

2008 Bush Artist Fellowships Panelists

Nick Cave { SHORT BIO }
Artist and Department Chair, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois

Leslie Fields-Cruz { SHORT BIO }
Director of Programming, National Black Programming Consortium
New York, New York

Namita Gupta Wiggers { SHORT BIO }
Curator, Museum of Contemporary Craft
Portland, Oregon

Jordan Kantor { SHORT BIO }
Artist and Associate Professor, California College of the Arts
San Francisco, California

Brian Knep { SHORT BIO }
New-media artist
Boston, Massachusetts

Yong Soon Min { SHORT BIO }
Artist and independent curator; Professor, University of California-Irvine
Irvine, California

Chrissie Orr { SHORT BIO }
Visual artist
Santa Fe, New Mexico

Paula Owen { SHORT BIO }
President, Southwest School of Art and Craft
San Antonia, Texas

Susan Oxtoby { SHORT BIO }
Senior Film Curator, Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley, California

Lynne Spriggs { SHORT BIO }
Curator of Special Projects, C.M. Russell Museum
Great Falls, Montana

Bob Teske { SHORT BIO }
Folklorist and Executive Director, Milwaukee County Historical Society
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Historical List of Panelists (updated through 2007):

Historical List of Artist Selection Panelists (33.1 KB)