2023 resident artists

D. Allen is a multidisciplinary poet, performer, and artist living in Minneapolis. Hybridity is central to D.'s creative practice. Their works typically interweave elements of text, image, movement, performance, mixed-media objects, and/or sound to explore themes of disabled embodiment, queer and trans identity, kinship beyond blood, and intimacy with place and the natural world. Website: www.thebodyconnected.com

Kerry Parker is a choreographer, educator and dancer. Her work has taken her across North America and parts of Europe. Locally she has received commissions from Center for Performing Arts, James Sewell Ballet, University of Minnesota Opera Theatre and Michael Sommers.

Cooper, Melvin, and Young is a Twin Cities based collaborative artistic team working in puppetry, placemaking, and installation art. The team consists of Felicia Cooper, Kallie Melvin, and Alex Young. Previously, they have performed at Northern Spark 2022 with the project The Official Bureau of Lost Things. As individuals, their art has been supported by Open Eye Figure Theater, In the Heart of the Beast Mask and Puppet Theater, Greenway Glow, the Bell Museum, and more.