The festival was coordinated by its original proponents, College of Liberal Arts professors Leonardo Lasansky, Chair of the Studio Arts and Art History department, and Rees Allison, Chair of the Music department. As Director of Exhibitions, Professor Lasansky curated the installation of and publications for the Material Differences exhibition at Hamline. Ms. Anika Carlsted served as Assistant Curator and Registrar for the exhibition and manager of the festival web site. Hamline University faculty, staff, and students were also involved with various aspects of planning, organizing, and implementing the festival.

      
Students Interns
      MacKenzie Moon ‘06
      Laura Kennedy ‘05
      Becky Harsma ‘05
      Margeaux Claude ‘06
      Breanne Miller ‘06
      Christopher Pole ‘05
      M'Erin Leitch ‘03
      

Professor Leonardo Lasansky, an acclaimed artist, has been on the faculty at Hamline University since 1972. He has chaired the Studio Arts and Art History department since 1995. He received his BGS in 1971 and MA and MFA degrees in 1972 from the University of Iowa. In 1982, he was the Artist-in-Residence at Dartmouth College and received a traveling one-person exhibition funded by the National Endowment for the Arts. He is a member and academician of the National Academy in New York and his works have been exhibited worldwide. He has received over fifty awards for his work, which can be found in numerous national and international collections, including The Museum of Art, Grenchen, Switzerland; Alvar Aalto Museum, Jyvaskyla, Finland; National Museum, Kracow, Poland; National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.; Hood Museum, Dartmouth College; Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York; Princeton University, New Jersey.

Professor Rees Allison is an accomplished performer, professor of piano and music history, and Chair of the Music department at Hamline University. After completing his undergraduate study at the Royal Academy of Music, London, Allison received his M. Music in 1967 and Ph.D. in 1970 from Washington University in St. Louis. He was appointed to Hamline University in 1971. In 1993, he spent two months researching traditional African music at the International Library of African Music, Grahamstown, South Africa. Currently, Allison performs with The Musical Offering, which he founded in 1971, and The Hill House Chamber Players. He has also performed as a soloist with the Minnesota Orchestra and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra.

Professors Allison and Lasansky also organized the successful and critically acclaimed España Festival, an interdisciplinary festival celebrating the art and culture of Spain, at Hamline University in 1997. Lasansky curated the festival’s exhibition of 270 works by the 18th-19th century Spanish artist Francisco Goya, titled The Disasters of War. The Minneapolis Star Tribune selected this exhibition as the top curated show in the Twin Cities in 1997.

Ms. Anika Carlsted is a 2000 graduate of Hamline University’s College of Liberal Arts and holds a BA in anthropology. In 1999 she studied abroad in Ghana, West Africa, through the School for International Training and subsequently traveled in four other African countries. Ms. Carlsted has studied cultural anthropology, African studies, art history, and museum studies. Since 2001, Ms. Carlsted has been the slide librarian and web site manager for the department of Studio Arts and Art History Department at Hamline University.

      
Additional Exhibition Staff
      Alisa McCusker ‘02, Registrar
      Thor Eric Paulson ‘92, Art Handler
      Jean Noel Guermonprez, Gallery Technician