TEACHING ARTIST ROSTER
Artists trained in our teaching artist roster program (TARP) listed in alphabetical order by last name. They are available for residencies in our area. Please click their names to read about what they are currently offering. Schools can use our Arts Legacy: Artist Residency grant application to easily sponsor one of these local artists into your school! 100% of the costs might be covered by the grant. First come, first served with one per district offered per school year. Artists in our program have create a mock up grant on themselves and a press release that takes most of the work out of applying.
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Jeanne Cooney, Writer
Published Author Jeanne Cooney, formerly of Hallock, offers residencies in writing. Her goal is to get students to loosen up and laugh and enjoy writing humorously, while learning practical creative writing skills during the residency.
Kristin Eggerling, Writer
Kristin Eggerling of Hallock offers residencies in storytelling writing. Kristin is a published author who loves to involve writing games into her residency.
Christine Foster, Visual Artist
Trey Everett, Visual Artist
Trey Everett of Crookston is an experienced muralist and offers interactive residencies in mural painting. Students will learn about how murals are created, painting techniques, and lettering styles. Students will take part in creating a vibrant permanent school mural in a prominent location from initial design to completion.
Amy Fuglestad, Visual Artist
Amy Fuglestad of Crookston offers residences in mixed media. Students learn the definition of “mixed media” and become acquainted with design elements and art principles. They create a large sheet of abstract art that is converted into smaller art pieces with a final project of either inspiration decks or a pair of wall hangings.
Christine Foster of Thief River Falls offers residencies in visual arts. An accomplished painter, Christine shares her talent with students while teaching visual art terms and having fun with the students. She has many years of experience doing residencies in our region.
Samantha Harrill, Potter
Eden Johnson, Musician
Eden Johnson of Lake Bronson offers a residency in learning to play the violin. Students learn the parts of the violin and bow; how to tune it; how to read sheet music; leave with a basic understanding of music theory; and be able to play the songs ‘Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star’ and ‘Hot Cross Buns.’ Students set their pace in order to cultivate a love for music and appreciate the journey of learning music.
Kim Hruba, Writer
Kim Hruba of Warroad has offered residencies in writing and creative expression, but is currently not doing so.
Jolene Juhl, Glass Artist
Jolene Juhl of Greenbush offers residencies in glass fusing. Jolene has a glass hobby gone wild. She is excited to share her projects, history of glass fusing, and have participants leave with a glass keepsake after she fuses their piece together at her studio.
Misti Koop, Performing Artist
Misti Koop of East Grand Forks offers residencies in performing arts focused on children singing and dancing to their own songs about their town and area. She is extremely accomplished in her work after years of being on stage. Take advantage of her availability to come to your school. Her energy is contagious.
Megan Maloney, Multi-disciplinary Artist
Gail Ose, Visual Artist
Gail Ose of Thief River Falls offers painting residencies that emphasize exploration and personal meaning. Students are introduced to organic symmetry and building depth in their work by painting multiple layers and explore the various ways artists use color, space, shapes, and symbols in their art. This residency emphasizes the internal creative process and helps students develop creative confidence, comfort with uncertainty, flexible thinking, emotional awareness, problem-solving skills, and authentic self-expression.
Alyssa Aune, Visual Artist
Alyssa Aune of Gatzke offers visual art residencies to elementary classrooms and teaches lessons that use oil, pastels, chalks, watercolors, mixed media and other materials. Many of her lessons focus on an animal or some type of landscape.
Janet Johnson, Visual Artist
Janet Johnson of Roseau is an established artist working in ceramics/pottery and other visual arts mediums. She offers residencies about Pablo Picasso that include creating a stylized clay bas relief mask and a linear monoprint. Poetry writing and a self-portrait in ink and watercolor are other possibilities.
Cindy Kolling, Drawing Artist
Cindy Kolling of Gully offers residencies in art journaling. Journaling workshop sessions are run in a game-like fashion using prompts to help focus and maintain challenge while developing skills of “looking and seeing” with new eyes. Participants will create an art journal with various art mediums such as painting or collage for their use while documenting their art journey.
Jill Levene, Artist-Printmaker
Jill Levene of Warren offers an interactive fabric mural residency. Students design and create a fabric mural base representing the prairie, lakes, rolling land, wildlife and more -- capturing in fabric and block prints where they live and play. They also design and carve linoleum blocks and print their carved blocks on the fabric base to complete the story.
Caylie Nicholson, Visual Artist
Caylie Nicholson of Hallock offers a residency in encaustic art. Students learn the fundamentals, explore wax, texture, and color, and create hands-on encaustic painting, a technique that uses heated wax and pigment to create layered, textured works.
Aliza Novacek-Olson, Textile Artist
Aliza Novacek-Olson of Roseau offers residencies on weaving and needle felting. She provides students hands-on experiences while sharing the historical context behind the techniques. She offers programs for schools, libraries, museums, festivals, and community groups and is also available for demonstrations (traditional spinning and textile process demos) and workshops (hands-on weaving, felting, and fiber arts).
Jodi Peterson, Glass Artist
Jodi Peterson is a teacher in Ada and lives in Moorhead and offers a glass residency. Students learn a brief history of glass beads; how to make a simple glass bead and more complex beads with dots, stripes, and other shapes; and how to make bracelets/necklaces to display their beads.
Beau Bakken, Visual Artist
Beau Bakken of Hallock offers visual art residencies focused on drawing with colored pencils. He’ll share concepts like Expression through Creation and focus on capturing what you see and not what you think you see.
Samantha Harrill of Warroad offers residencies in ceramics. Students create a ceramic mug that reflects their personal design choices. They gain foundational ceramic skills and an understanding of the full process from creation to firing, along with reflection and presentation. She also teaches pottery classes with basic techniques, wheel demos, hand-building, and glazing and finishing.
Megan Maloney of Thief River Falls offers a STEAM-focused collaborative design and technical theater residency. The residency fosters collaboration by treating the students like a professional production crew and inspires big ideas and the technical tools to execute it. Participants leave with a lit, 3D mini-set, a digital photograph of the final design, and a production packet documenting the process from initial concept to a professional, high-fidelity reality.
Jessica Ross, Visual Artist
Jessica Ross of Fisher offers a visual art with ecology residency. Students learn artistic techniques with acrylic paint and cardboard sculpture to create fish, turtles and other aquatic organisms. This residency is designed to boost visual thinking skills and creative problem solving as well as making connections by bridging ecology and art.
Acacia Winters, Visual Artist
Acacia Winters of Thief River Falls offers a Visual Art Residency with a focus on observation. Students develop observational skills by studying rocks by touch and sight, learn to break complex shapes into manageable forms, explore light and shadow through timed drawing, and apply basic watercolor and gouache techniques to create a finished original painting of a rock stack.
Elizabeth Rockstad, Mosaic Artist
Elizabeth Rockstad of Ada offers residencies and classes in mosaic. She creates elaborate pieces and loves to work with participants on community and school mosaic projects.
Mandy Smestad, Visual Artist
Mandy Smestad of East Grand Forks offers residencies in visual art (self-portraits). Students create self-portraits and are taught the basic structures, the techniques of creating facial symmetry, tips on how to make features realistic, and how to blend colors when shading. Students will build confidence in their artistic abilities and self-confidence in their beauty inside and out.
