Roseann Weiss is a creative advisor and strategist about the intersections of art and community working independently as ART +. She has 30 years of experience in arts leadership in nonprofit arts institutions, community organizations, and gallery settings. Her expertise centers in arts-based community development, community and public arts, artists' professional development, and grant-making. For 14 years, she guided the Community Arts Training (CAT) Institute at the St. Louis Regional Arts Commission, which is an innovative, cross-sector program designed around art as a powerful agent for social change. Among her current projects are Lead Educator for Arts as Civic Engagement program at the Gephardt Institute for Civic and Community Engagement at Washington University and working with Americans for the Arts to create guides, webinars, and workshops for “Artists at the Community Development Table.”

Website: https://www.roseannweiss.com/ 

Email: roseannweiss@gmail.com

Con is an artist exploring communities. She experiences community by observing pools of knowledge and experience that exist alongside historical rootedness and the complex concept of place. It is a topographical map of wind, weather, and time. It is the science of hard scape. It is multiple layers of memory and story. It is individual and institutional. It can reinforce or bury the human experience. 

Con’s work is at the intersection of space and place, a collaboration between consciousness and creativity. She works locally, nationally, and internationally because those virtual lines drawn by humans on the surface of this planet are not real. And yet, she believes they slow us, confine us, stop us, turn us away from each other. 

Email: con-sult@juno.com

Denise is a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist (guitar, Irish flute, concertina), and community choir director.  Her music reveals much  about her Midwestern roots,  her love of regional culture and history,  and her passion for beauty, justice, and seeking ways to make a positive difference in her community and the world. Denise is recognized as one of the Midwest's finest singers of traditional and historical music, particularly the Celtic, French-Canadian and traditional American songs which were popular in the early Midwest.  In her long career she has performed as a solo artist and as a member of the acoustic band Traveler’s Dream in settings as diverse as concert halls and music festivals, schools and colleges, places of prayer and social justice events.  In recent years Denise has shifted the main focus of her musical life from her own performances to creating opportunities for people to come together and sing.  She directs a 75-member community choir (Blue Moon Rising) and leads people of all ages in song in a variety of community settings.  She regularly sings for and with older adults at retirement homes and for groups of people who suffer from Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia.  The common thread in her musical activities is her passion to share the power and magic of music as a vital source for hope, healing, and connection.

Alyse is a writer and artist, using performance and collaboration to facilitate civic and social dialogue in her community. She is interested in the intersections of different art forms and collaborating with other artists. She likes to pursue projects that help develop her community into a place where artists can thrive. To get in touch email is usually best, but she can be found everywhere online @ittbittypoems.