Prince Rogers Nelson
Arts Consortium of Carver County2021
Prince Rogers Nelson Posthumously
(June 7, 1958 – April 21, 2016)
Musical genius: Musician. Composer. Actor. Movie Producer and Director. Activist and Philanthropist. Artist in Design and Fashion. Prince was an International Star. He was honored with a star on Minneapolis nightclub, First Avenue’s mural.
Hometown: Prince was born in Minneapolis. He attended Central High School. He played baseball, basketball, and football. At the age of 20, Prince recorded his first album, “For You.” His musical genius was immediately apparent as he sang all the parts and played 27 instruments. What a debut!
Paisley Park: “A place of love and peace and creative freedom.” In Chanhassen, Paisley Park opened in 1987. It was Prince’s home and state-of-the-art studio where he welcomed artists and musicians as friends and to record and to perform. It is now Paisley Park Museum. This museum is alive! Music, movies and videos of concerts bring Prince to life, exciting visitors from around the world.
Jim Gilbert
Arts Consortium of Carver County2017
Jim Gilbert
Author and scientist. For more than thirty years Jim Gilbert has been observing the changing Minnesota seasons with the accuracy of a trained biologist and the rapt attention of a poet, while also keeping in touch with events in remote corners of the state through friendships developed during his weekly WCCO Radio call-in program.
Jim Gilbert’s Nature Notes are heard on WCCO Radio at 7:15 a.m. Sundays.
His observations have been part of the Minnesota Weatherguide Environment Calendars since 1977, and he is the author of five books on nature in Minnesota. He served the Hopkins Public Schools as a science teacher and naturalist for 30 years, and recently retired from teaching in the Environmental Studies Program at Gustavus Adolphus College.
The monarch butterfly man. In August of 1975, Jim and two of his Hopkins middle school science students tagged monarchs. One of the butterflies they tagged that day led to a big discovery – the monarch flew 2,000 miles southward. That task helped Dr. Urquhart discover that millions of butterflies migrate to the remote Transvolcanic Belt of central Mexico. This most magnificent migration has been captured by SK Films – details from consultant, Jim Gilbert.
Jim and Sandy have three grown sons and are grandparents. Sandy is a former public school music teacher, and for 12 years was the manager of their family business – Jim Gilbert’s Wild Bird Store. Together they have hosted more than 20 ecotours to such places a Costa Rica, Peru, the Galapagos Islands, and Kenya. Their home is near the shore of Lake Waconia.
Stan Tekiela
Arts Consortium of Carver County2016
Stan Tekiela
Biology was his degree, but he has become known throughout the United States as a renowned naturalist. Through his appreciation of nature, he has also become a wildlife photographer and a prolific writer. Stan has authored 162 books. Besides, his photography, his books include bird, mammal and tree field guides for nearly all states in the nation. He writes for youth, adults, amateurs and professionals. Stan also hosts a radio show and writes a syndicated column which is featured in newspapers throughout the Midwest. He is Stan is more than a naturalist. He is also an artist and, through his writings, his radio slow, his workshops and tours, Stan is an educator.
Stan lives in Victoria, MN and besides all his other ventures and adventures, he is the naturalist at Staring Lake Nature Center in Eden Prairie, MN.
Visit him at www.NatureSmart.com.
Jerry Kahle
2016
Jerry Kahle
Friday, November 4th, Jerry Kahle of Cologne, MN was inducted into the Minnesota Music Hall of Fame at Turner Hall in New Ulm, MN. Since 1989, the Minnesota Music Hall of Fame has bestowed this prestigious award on 162 individuals and organizations include Jerry’s father, Ivan Kahle, Judy Garland and the Andrew Sisters.
Born in the 40’s on an 80 acre farm in Hancock Township, near Norwood, MN, Jerry started playing in his father’s band during his sophomore year in high school. Late gigs for school nights! The dances would typically start at 9:00 and end at 1:00 am.
Jerry still loves and plays music. He is a freelance musician. The instruments he plays include: saxophone, clarinet, trumpet, tenor banjo, wind synthesizer and flugel horn. He has played with more than 40 different groups, all sizes, and books out 6 to 12 months in advance.
Jerry Kalhe is a member of the Arts Consortium of Carver County and, while congratulating, him, we honor him with a Lifetime, Honorary Membership in the ACCC.
Jenn Bostic
Arts Consortium of Carver County2016
Jenn Bostic
News – October 22, 2017, Bostic was awarded the British Country Music Association’s International Touring Artist of the Year Award!
Jenn is originally from Waconia, Minnesota, currently residing in Nashville, Tennessee. Her emotive songwriting and powerful vocals have been touching hearts around the world. Jealous of the Angels, a song written for her late father, allowed her to connect and empathize with fans in a remarkable way. The song was discovered by Smooth Radio’s Simon Bates, where the song immediately jumped into the station’s Top 10 Most Played. It was soon play listed on BBC Radio, and after a live performance on BBC Breakfast, it rose to #1 in the UK. She has performed at The Grand Ole Opry 8 times, and is set to release a new single this fall.
Sally Barris
Arts Consortium of Carver County2015
Sally Barris
Sally Barris is an A-list Nashville songwriter who has had songs covered by such top-level artists as Kathy Mattea, Martina McBride, and Lee Ann Womack.
Her song “Let The Wind Chase You”, recorded by Trisha Yearwood and Keith Urban, received a 2009 Grammy nomination for vocal collaboration .
Her writing credits mightily impress; her bright spirit and expressive mountain soprano voice captivates. Dirty Linen says “Barris knows how to write lyrics that are as forthright as a stream of clear water and how to support them with melodies that share that quality”.
When Sally is not touring solo, she is known as “Sister Waymore” in the power trio; The Waymores with Tom Kimmel and Don Henry.
In the last 3 years, the Minnesota native has performed Mountain Stage, New Bedford Summer Fest, The Wildflower Festival and The Kerrville Folk Festival. Sally is currently touring with her new CD “The Road in Me”.
Carver County Teachers
2013
Carver County Schools
Teachers – art, music, literature, theater – build a foundation for creative thinking and artistic express for all students. The Arts Consortium of Carver County recognizes and appreciates the expertise and effort provided by each teacher. We acknowledge that teachers are the front line introducing art and exciting and encouraging our future artist and art advocates.
Richard Krogstad
Arts Consortium of Carver County2012
Richard Krogstad
Selected by the U.S. Department of State’s Art in Embassies Program, Krogstad’s paintings have been on loan to the American ambassadors’ residences in Germany, Micronesia and Burma.
Born in the small town of Harlan, Iowa, Richard Krogstad always knew he would be an artist. As a child he remembers coloring with deliberation and always staying in the lines. An elementary teacher recognized and praised his talent. After high school, Krogstad sought out the nearest school with an art program – the University of Iowa.
Upon graduation with a bachelor’s degree in fine arts, he was employed at a Chicago advertising agency as an art director. In Chicago, his paintings were shown at the Gilman Gallery and purchased for private and corporate collections such as Atlantic Richfield and Container Corporation of America.
He left the advertising business for a graduate painting program at the University of Massachusetts. After receiving his MFA degree in painting, he moved to Los Angeles where the Jodi Scully Gallery represented his art work. There he began a 20 year career as a business owner and graphic designer. In 1980 Krogstad returned to the Midwest, settling in Minneapolis. He returned to a full time art vocation in 1992.
Krogstad’s paintings are representational. He chooses landscapes, typically within a 60-mile radius of his home in St. Bonifacius. He seeks out settings that inspire him. He photographs the scenes from several view points and uses them to recreate a landscape utilizing the many painting techniques in his “repertoire.” Under his hand the original landscape that caught his eye is transformed into a new setting – pleasing to him.
Others also find his work pleasing. His work is in many collections including American Express, Bank of American, Cargill, the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Park Nicollet and Wells Fargo. The U.S. Department of State Art in Embassies Program has selected his paintings for loan to American ambassadors’ residences in Germany, Micronesia and Burma.
Krogstad’s paintings have been beautifully described by two art critics. Mary Abbe of the Minneapolis Star Tribune wrote, “Krogstad is a poet of rural places, the wide skies arching over fallow fields, river valleys and farmsteads.”
Rusty Freeman, VP of curatorial education at the Plains Art Museum, proclaims, “He makes the ordinary elements of the landscape – fields, river, skies – extraordinary through the careful use of color and value, lending his landscapes a spiritual demeanor.”
This demeanor carries over to his teaching philosophy; he shares his professional skill with gentle encouragement. Judgment is not part of his personality. Occasionally, he can be found teaching art classes at the Minnetonka Center for the Arts. He humbly states he learns more from his students than they from him.
Krogstad and his wife, Christine live in St. Bonifacius where he works in his home studio – large, white, with a full-wall window. Visit Richard at www.krogstadpaintings.com. Contact him at Richard@krogstadpaintings.com or (952) 446-8157.
Joyce Sutphen
2011
Joyce Sutphen
Joyce Sutphen grew up on a farm in Minnesota. She earned a PhD in Renaissance drama from the University of Minnesota, and has taught British literature and creative writing at Gustavus Adolphus College in Saint Peter, Minnesota. Her first collection of poems, Straight Out of View (1995), won the Barnard Women’s Poets Prize. Subsequent collections include Coming Back to the Body (2000), a Minnesota Book Award finalist, Naming the Stars (2004), winner of the Minnesota Book Award, and First Words (2010).She has received a McKnight Artist Fellowship and a Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship and was named Minnesota’s Poet Laureate in 2011.
Sutphen has read her poems on public radio’s A Prairie Home Companion,where host Garrison Keillor described the subjects of Coming Back to the Bodyas “scenes of the family farm, Paris, London, a dying marriage, stories of plain exaltation and ordinary weariness.” Comfortable with traditional forms, Sutphen is the author of Fourteen Sonnets, a fine-letterpress collection of poems from Red Dragonfly Press. Her poems often reference classic literary works.
Sutphen is a co-editor with Connie Wanek and Thom Tammaro of To Sing Along the Way: Minnesota Women Poets from Pre-Territorial Days to the Present(2006).
Audree Sells
Arts Consortium of Carver County2011
Audree Sells
In 1988 Audree’s quilt, Javanese Jungle won first place nationally and now hangs on a rotating basis in the National Quilt Museum in Paducah, KY.
1989: Her Garden Pool quilt won first place in Lancaster, PA and was traveling for six months being displayed in American cities and throughout Japan!
Good Housekeeping magazine held a national contest in 1990 called “If Quilts Could Talk.” Audree was the MN winner! The name should win an award: And Jack’s Mother Threw the Magic Beans out of the Window! This quilt is Registered with the Library of Congress in the Folk Art Department!
Jim Hautman
Arts Consortium of Carver County2011
Jim Hautman
Born in 1964, James Hautman grew up in an artistic family surrounded by nature. His Mother, two of his brothers and a sister are also artists. Jim burst onto the wildlife art scene in 1989, when at age 25, he became the youngest ever winner of the prestigious Federal Duck Stamp Contest. He has gone on to win the 1995, 1999, 2011 and 2017 Federal Duck Stamp contests. In addition to his five Federal Duck Stamp wins, he has painted more than 30 state conservation stamp designs, including 5 for the state of Minnesota, and the 1990 Australian duck stamp. He specializes in North American wildlife, especially animals and birds from his native Minnesota.
In 1991 he was named Ducks Unlimited International Artist of the Year and won the award again in 2010 with his painting “First Light Canvasbacks.” Pheasants Forever selected him as Artist of the Year for the years 1993, 2004, 2008, 2010, 2014 and 2017. In 2002 he was commissioned by the United Nations to paint a series of birds for their endangered species stamp collection.
Jim’s passion for art is matched by his passion for wildlife conservation. His artwork has helped raise more than 10 million dollars for wildlife and habitat conservation. Jim states, “I am fortunate to be able to make a living painting the things I love, and at the same time give back to the wildlife that inspires me.”
Publications such as Smithsonian, Time Magazine, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal and The Minneapolis Star Tribune have featured articles on his work. Jim’s art has been displayed in the Oval Office of the White House, the Smithsonian Institution, the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, the United Nations, and in public and private collections throughout the world. Movie producers have featured his artwork in Fargo and The Million Dollar Duck.
Jim Hautman lives and works on the edge of the Minnesota River Valley with his wife Dorothy, two rescued cats and an abundance of wildlife.
Ivan Kahle
Arts Consortium of Carver County2011
Ivan Kahle – Posthumously
Ivan has been inducted into the Minnesota Music Hall of Fame in New Ulm. (Other inductees include Judy Garland and the Andrew Sisters.) As part of President Clinton’s Inaugural celebrates, Ivan was invited to represent Minnesota in a 50-state musical group playing on the Washington Mall on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in January, 1993.
