Minnesota Voices
MN VOICES | Meet Dudley Voigt: The woman behind a musical
“I have been making theater with kids pretty much since I was a teenager myself,” Dudley Voigt explained about her work here in the Twin Cities as both an artist and educator.MORE »
MN VOICES | Carl Griffin is passionate about social justice
Meet Carl Griffin — writer, community advocate, philanthropist, bicyclist, classical pianist, and much more.MORE »
Chris Tolbert Brings International Insights to St. Paul City Council Work
Not many politicians can lay claim to development work abroad as an important stage in their journey to public service. Chris Tolbert, newly elected city councilmember for St. Paul’s Ward Three however, can.MORE »
MN VOICES | Sai Vang combines art and activism at Center for Hmong Arts and Talent
Sai Vang began to look at activism differently when she was a high school student at South High school in Minneapolis. “It was around the time that a Hmong girl in Wisconsin was at her prom," she recalls. "She had given birth to a stillborn and she threw it in the trash. KQRS made racist and prejudiced comments about her situation and the [Hmong] community in general."MORE »
MN VOICES | Angelique Kedem becomes the director in one of the nation's first Promise Neighborhoods
Growing in up in apartheid South Africa and witnessing her country's first democratic election shaped the philosophy and character of Angelique Kedem, the new director of St. Paul's Promise Neighborhood.MORE »
MN VOICES | Louis Alemayehu on environment and culture
Culture, environment, and poetry are all words that describe Louis Alemayehu, who is of African, Native American, and European ancestry. Rather than focus on the differences between people, Alemayehu emphasizes the connections between people and the earth.MORE »
MN VOICES | Kathy Mouacheupao
After Kathy Mouacheupao resigned from her position as Executive Director at the Center for Hmong Arts and Talent (CHAT), where she started working as a teaching artist in 2001, all sorts of recognition came her way.MORE »
MN VOICES | Dr. Anton Treuer: Author, educator, linguist
Anton Treuer had paid the repair bill and was headed to the lot to pick up his car when the mechanic called after him, “Miigwech!” For Dr. Treuer, a professor of Ojibwe at Bemidji State University, being thanked in that language by a non-native speaker represented a measure of progress. His mission is ambitious - to revive the indigenous tongue.MORE »
MN VOICES | Velma Korbel: "Not everything is Minnesota nice."
Dishwater and burgers. These are the intermingling smells that remind Velma Korbel of segregation. She told about a café that sold smoothies, milkshakes and, of course, burgers in the small town of Center, Texas where she grew up. “Blacks weren’t allowed at front,” she said. “They had to go to the back where the dishes were washed.”MORE »
MN VOICES | Amy Rice, making art in the heart of Northeast Minneapolis
At Art-a-Whirl, one studio you can’t miss is the one belonging to Amy Rice. She’s a Minneapolis-based artist whose star is just beginning to rise on the national scene. Her work has been shown in a diverse array of settings at home and abroad, from Palmer’s Bar on the West Bank to the Carmichael Gallery in London. Critics have praised her style—which makes use of spray paint stenciling and pastel palettes to create a fragile world of women and children in natural settings—calling it a mix of “cute” and “quirk” and comparing her work to that of another artist she’s exhibited with—Banksy.MORE »
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