Mary Carroll - Executive Director and Artist Mentor
Mary Carroll is the Executive Director of ART ASAP, INC. The Art Bus™. She has been a studio artist since 1992. Her work has been displayed nationally and internationally Her pieces have evolved from ceramic vessels to large-scale ceramic sculptures, which are always process oriented – from drawings to models to hand-building the pieces. Her works include the Bearded Iris-Cobalt in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and Twirling Maple Seed at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum and Silverwood Park, St. Anthony, M.N.
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Raju Lamichhane - Artist Mentor
Raju Lamichhane is an artist specializing in works made from newspaper. He received his artistic training from Tribhuvan University in Nepal. He uses his business – Raju’s Art – to teach artwork to children and adults. He stresses upon his students the importance to reduce, reuse, and recycle through artwork. His works show that art can be made with even the simplest of materials.
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David Culver - Artist Mentor
David Culver attended the University of Minnesota, Kent State College, and the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, where he studied under Siah Armajani and encountered several well-known visiting artists and instructors. His first big commission came in 1990 when he was chosen to create and install the lobby floor for the Myrna Loy Center for Performing Arts in Helena Montana out of native slate. This was followed by a series of other public art commissions. His works include drawings, paintings, and sculpture that focus heavily on the beauty and raw value of the materials he uses to create his art.
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Hayley Kolar - Artist Mentor
Hayley Kolar received her BA in Studio Art and Psychology from St. Olaf College. She recently returned to Minnesota after living in Chicago, where she earned her MA in Art Therapy from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Hayley believes in the restorative properties of making art and uses painting, printmaking, collage, and fiber art to further explore art-making as a therapeutic process. Hayley is passionate about using art as a means to connect with others.
Kendra Powers - Artist Mentor
I enjoy exploring themes through photography and animation. My work deals with human interactions related to identity and media. Cindy Sherman is an enormous inspiration in my work. I am interested in what makes someone who they are and who they choose to perform to be that day. The masks people wear and create identities and/or personas are what my works examines. I like to observe people in their everyday lives. The way they act and react is remarkable. Witnessing a viewer looking at my work while observing my reflections on reality creates a multilayered identity in itself. Populaces consuming images of who they may or may not be is intriguing. I am interested in consumption by the economy of desire and how strong the desire remains so resilient.
I believe technology and media manipulate a vast portion of our craving for the endless black hole of consumption. I am also interested in how technology and human interaction can change one's experience with social situations. Where people draw their own line regarding moral positions is also intriguing to investigate. Charles Veiman - Artist Mentor
I am an artist, that is all I can ever conceive myself to be, through me speaks a point of view of the world and life as I, and I alone conceive it. From this view I speak to the world through images, words, sounds, feelings plastered in canvases, paper or anything, or flung to the winds so that it may roam forever.
How I came to be an artist is a mystery to me, I simply am, as I was since the first memory of my existence, as are the images and the stories, which I, since, try to express and which have grown through life's experiences. Pat Parnow - Artist Mentor
With a BFA Degree from Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Pat has been involved in the art world ever since. At Parnow Photo Pat is self-employed selling photographs at Art Festivals in the 5 state area . Pat is the Loring Park Art Festival Director organizing the art festival, budgeting and coordinating details for 140 artists, 12 food vendors and several sponsors to come together for the event. She is also the MayDay Festival Site Coordinator and has been involved with mnartists.org / Walker Art Center. She is also the driver of the Art Bus.
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