Biography Becky Schlegel is a Minnesota singer-songwriter, originally from South Dakota. 

 I had an interest in fashion and art from the early age of 5. I sewed by hand as a child and my grandmother taught me how to use my first machine at age 11. 

 In fall of 2007, I started studying at the University of Wisconsin- Stout. While there, I served on the Student Senate, was in the concert and pep band, and was President and member of the Black Student Union. I had the opportunity to complete an internship in New York City and study fashion abroad in London, England at AIU-American Intercontinental University, while in college. I earned a Bachelor of Science in Apparel Design and Manufacturing in Spring of 2012. 

I had my son, Teigen, in Summer of 2014. He is my joy and greatest inspiration. I have been operating my custom sewing and alterations business full time since 2015. I love the process of design and I am lucky to be able to do what I love for a living.

Debra D'Souza is a mosic artist in Rochester, Minnesota.

Eva Barr has created a life combining her passions of theater, sustainable farming, and social activism.  After years as a founding member of LookingGlass Theater in Chicago, Eva and her husband started a land collective in southeast Minnesota called Dream Acres Farm, which now hosts Flourish, a youth theater camp and pizza on the farm. 

Judy Onofrio invented herself as an artist and in the process enriched the whole of Minnesota cultural life. Her art education was a result of her insatiable curiosity and independent spirit. 

 Beginning with ceramics in the 1970s, Judy Onofrio moved through a wide range of materials and exploration of form. She has created large-scale installations, sculptural fire performances and elaborately carved and obsessively embellished sculpture. 
 
 Onofrio was the founding director of the Minnesota Crafts Council, served as Acting Director of the Rochester Art Center and founded the children's Total Art Day Camp at the Rochester Art Center.
 
 In 2005, Onofrio was awarded The McKnight Foundation Distinguished Minnesota Artist Award in recognition of her ongoing contribution as an artist and educator. 

Deep in the woods of southeastern MN, Kevin Reid makes abstract acrylic paintings and salvaged metal sculpture. His art is informed by a 30-year practice of treating people with chronic pain and in clinical medical ethics with particular interests in moral virtues such as compassion and beneficence. Kevin retired from Mayo Clinic in 2022 and then earned an MFA at Minneapolis College of Art and Design in May 2024.

Roger Nelson is a farmer, singer-songwriter, sourdough-master, meadmaker, chocolatier, dad/grandfather, retired architect, farm handyman, all-around amazing and good guy, and lucky podcast-host Susan's husband.

Check out Roger Nelson Music https://www.broadjam.com/songs/rogernelson on Broadjam to hear some of Rog's original songs.

Stephanie Podulke 

Rochester Stained Glass 49 years... Olmsted County Commissioner 12 years...Member of  Nodding Wild Onions band

 “We moved to Rochester to open our studio,  Rochester Stained Glass. I worked for 20  years in the field of behavioral health and  social services for youth.” She also became an in-home family therapist and worked in that field for 15 years.