Karen Goulet
Phone: (218) 902-0181
E-mail: karen.goulet@arts.state.mn.us
Karen Goulet is a member of the White Earth Ojibwe Nation and is also Métis and Saami/Finn. She lives in northern Minnesota and works as an artist and art faculty on the reservation. She received her MFA in sculpture from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is also a published poet.
People, places, and certain moments in time influence her creative work. She has had the good fortune to work in many places and with a variety of communities, using creativity as a way of connecting and making positive change in the world. She is looking forward to continuing the community development aspect of her creative life by her work as a liaison.
J. Rudy Perrault
Phone: (218) 349-9082
E-mail: rudy.perrault@arts.state.mn.us
Performer, conductor and composer, Jean “Rudy” Perrault is director of orchestras and associate professor of strings at the University of Minnesota Duluth. Born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, he earned his master's degree in performance from Temple University.
He is a frequent panelist on national and international instrumental and conducting competitions, and has participated in many prestigious music festivals including the International Music Camp, Aspen, Tanglewood, Chautauqua.
Rudy is published by African Music Publishers, a division of Oxford University Press. He is a founding member and president of the Kako Foundation (www.kakofoundation.org), a nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing classical music to underprivileged youth in the United States and Haiti. He makes his home in Duluth, Minnesota, with his wife Elizabeth and his two children Ella and Alexandre (a.k.a. Popo).
Victoria "Tori" Salas
Phone: (507) 380-9767
E-mail: tori.salas@arts.state.mn.us
Victoria “Tori” Salas has been a lead performer and head dancer for the traditional Mexcia Dance Circle of Mankato, and has worked to reach new communities through her work in the United States Census in 2000, and again in 2010.
She is a respected and natural leader who has been the recipient of the Women of Courage and Vision Award, Cultural Diversity Award, and 25 on the Rise Hispanic Leadership awards. She has extensive knowledge and experience as a cultural collaborator and has helped develop alliances between various cultural groups.
Bryan Thao Worra
Phone: (952) 240-2521
E-mail: bryan.worra@arts.state.mn.us
Web site: http://thaoworra.blogspot.com
Bryan Thao Worra is a 2009 NEA fellow in literature, Laotian American writer, and creative works editor for the Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement.
His work is featured in over 100 international publications and his work is taught in schools around the world. He is the author of five collections of poetry including On The Other Side Of The Eye, Touching Detonations, The Tuk-Tuk Diaries, My Dinner With Cluster Bombs, Winter Ink, and Barrow.
Currently residing in North Minneapolis, Bryan is a Many Voices fellow of the Playwrights’ Center, and has received support from the Minnesota State Arts Board and the Loft Literary Center. He received a 2009 Asian Pacific Leadership Award for the Arts from the Minnesota Council on Asian Pacific Minnesotans
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