Join us for an ARTSpeak panel discussion exploring how creatives are navigating the growing presence of artificial intelligence (AI) in their fields. Hear from panelists with different experiences and perspectives as they share how AI intersects with their work, creative processes, and industries.
This discussion offers an opportunity to learn, exchange ideas, and connect with fellow creatives in our community.
A Q&A with the panelists will follow the discussion, giving attendees an opportunity to ask questions and further explore the topic.
Featured panelists:
Eric Anderson
Eric Anderson is a writer and artist living in Rochester, MN. His interactive installations have been commissioned by or featured in collaboration with the Center for Research and Interdisciplinarity at the University of Paris, France, the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, the National Institutes of Health’s National Human Genome Research Institute, Mayo Clinic, the Open Source Pharma Foundation, Destination Medical Center and the Rochester Art Center. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, his writing has appeared in Granta, American Letters & Commentary, Columbia Poetry Review, and elsewhere. He has taught for the University of Iowa, the University of Minnesota-Rochester and the Mayo Clinic Center for Humanities in Medicine.
Kip O’Krongly
Kip O’Krongly is a studio artist and instructor living in Northfield, MN. She earned a BA from Carleton College in 2001, and continued her ceramics education in clay studios across the country before returning to Minnesota as the Northern Clay Center Fogelberg Fellow, Materials Technician, and then Anonymous Potter Studio Fellow. Kip has been featured as a Ceramics Monthly Emerging Artist, on the cover of Pottery Making Illustrated, and was a Best in Show winner of the Strictly Functional Pottery National Exhibition. She exhibits work and teaches workshops across the country, is included in a number of ceramic publications and in 2014 was the recipient of a $25,000 McKnight Artist Grant.
Jacqueline West
Jacqueline West is the author of a dozen novels for young readers, including the New York Times-bestselling series The Books of Elsewhere, the Schneider Family Award Honor Book The Collectors, the YA horror novels Last Things and Black Point, and the middle grade mystery Long Lost, which received a Minnesota Book Award and the 2023 Prix Enfantaisie. Her poetry has garnered three Pushcart nominations and a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize. She lives with her family in Red Wing, Minnesota.
Red Wing Arts is pleased to present our monthly ARTSpeak artist professional development program!
Join us at 6 pm on the second Tuesday of each month for this free program designed to support both emerging and established artists.
Each month we’ll alternate between panel discussions featuring experts on topics that build business skills and professional growth, and studio visits and networking sessions. Artists and creatives of all disciplines are welcome!
ARTSpeak is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.