www.advantagelabs.com | email
We are a small consulting firm that helps nonprofits and small businesses tackle the big challenges of online community. As online strategists and contributing experts for the Drupal CMS, we've learned a lot along the way, and we're happy to share our knowledge with everyone.
We are a highly-technical development firm. We contribute and support dozens of Drupal modules and provide training, support, and managed hosting for small and large Drupal projects. We share what we learn from our development initiatives with the community, and we work with the community to inform development goals and solutions. Virtually everything we do is made available as a contribution to the open source community. We don't call this "giving back", we call this "strengthening the resources we depend on."
Art Shanty Projects
www.artshantyprojects.org | e. info@artshantyprojects.org | t. 612.567.6844 |Art Shanty Projects is a four-week exhibition that is part sculpture park, part artist residency and part social experiment, inspired by traditional ice fishing houses that dot the state's lakes in winter. It is an artist driven temporary community exploring the ways in which the relatively unregulated public space of the frozen lake can be used as a new and challenging artistic environment to expand notions of what art can be.
Peter Haakon Thompson, Director
B Fresh Photography & Media
www.bfreshphotography.com | e. bfreshphotography@gmail.com | t. 917.727.2013
Rebecca “B FRESH” McDonald is a multi-media artist/journalist working in the arts, entertainment and politics. She aims to mobilize public consciousness and incite community power development through storytelling in the mediums of photography, video and writing. Her work has been featured in ColorLines Magazine, The Nation, The SOURCE, VIBE Magazine, Wax Poetics, IMPOSE Magazine, urb.com, OkayPlayer, on the covers of The Liberator Magazine and Anattitude Magazine. She has been a freelance photographer/journalist with the Village Voice for the last two years, and lives between Minneapolis and New York.
Rebecca McDonald, Multi-Media Artist & Journalist
Diversity Alive!
e. Diversityalive@aol.com | t. 763-370-1482
Diversity Alive is an educational, intergenerational theater program. Through the village approach, we cultivate the inner artist to empower one's unique artistic expressions. Our mission of "Healing Through the Arts" allows individuals to engage their communities by sharing of their artistic giftings and enhancing the lives of others.
Terryann Nash-Patton, Executive Director
Terrenta Patton, Technical Director
Tahiti Robinson, Administrative Assistant
Josephyne Steward, Program Coordinator
The Givens Foundation for African American Literature
www.givens.org | e. info@givens.org | t. 952.831.2555
The mission of the Givens Foundation for African American Literature is to enrich cultural awareness and learning through programs that promote and celebrate black literature and writers. Givens Foundation programs engage nearly 5,000 students, educators, readers and writers in the Twin Cities each year.
In the last five years, our literary arts education program, Spirited Minds and Strong Souls Singing, has become an innovative solution that has supported the academic engagement of more than 6,000 Twin Cities students by delivering black literary artists and storytellers into classrooms to use African American literature as a springboard for teaching reading and writing.
Our NOMMO African American Authors Series has explored the state of the art of African American literature with literary masters such as Amiri Baraka, Angela Davis, Yusef Komunyakaa, Ishmael Reed, Sonia Sanchez, Ntozake Shange, and John Edgar Wideman.
Our Givens Black Writers Collaborative Retreat pairs national and state mentoring authors with emerging black writers to promote the “writing life” and to seed the future of African American literature. Lastly, our Givens Black Books Community Reading Campaign has increased access to quality literature in the African American community and has featured diverse activities and events that encourage reading as an integral part of daily life for more than 800 participants.
Arleta Little, Executive Director
Eartha Bell, Assistant Director
Permaculture Research Institute Cold Climate
www.pricoldclimate.org | e. Emily@pricoldclimate.org | t. 612.242.8758
With creativity, knowledge and passion we design and demonstrate permaculture systems for living sustainably in colder climates for individuals and organizations working towards healthy communities and ecosystems.
When We're Here: Monday-Friday
Springboard for the Arts
www.springboardforthearts.org | e. info@springboardforthearts.org | t. 651.292.4381
Springboard for the Arts is an economic and community development organization for artists and by artists. Our work is about building stronger communities, neighborhoods, and economies, and we believe that artists are an important leverage point in that work. Springboard for the Arts' mission is to cultivate vibrant communities by connecting artists with the skills, information, and services they need to make a living and a life.
Our work is about creating communities and artists that have a reciprocal relationship, where artists are key contributors to community issues and are visible and valued for the impact they create.We do this work by creating simple, practical solutions and systems to support artists. Those programs support our goal to help create a local culture movement.
Contact us to find out when our staff will be at the ArtsHub!
That Poe Girl
www.thatpoegirl.com | contact me
Almost 30 years experience as a calligrapher, over 20 years experience in watercolor, pastels, charcoal, graphite, and various crafts such as decoupage, sewing, craft painting, clay, paper crafts, beading, jewelry-making, religious art, and many others. Specialties: Portraits, Calligraphy, Painting, Watercolor, Pastels, Charcoal, Beading and Jewelry Making, Crafting.
Kate Johnson, Independent Artist
TigerLion Arts
www.tigerlion.org | e. info@tigerlion.org | t. 612.670.7771
TigerLion Arts is a Minneapolis-based production company. We celebrate human wisdom and the spirit of nature through creative works that awaken, inform, and delight.
Markell Kiefer, Executive Artistic Director
Tyson Forbes, Producing Artistic Director