Talks

• Plenary Speaker, Kern National Network for Flourishing in Medicine, Minneapolis, MN, 2025 
• Keynote Speaker, North Dakota State University, Art Educators of North Dakota, 2025
• Keynote Speaker, National Art Educators Foundation, Minneapolis, MN, 2024
• Keynote Speaker, University of Winona Women of Wellness Conference, Rochester, MN,2024
• Lecturer, St George’s University – Grenada, West Indies, 2024
• The Human Element Drawing for resident doctors, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, 2024
• “Visual Art and Personal Narrative,” for resident doctors, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, 2024
• Plenary Speaker Conference on Brain Health and Dementia: Paths to Emotional Wellness, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, with AARP and Alzheimer’s Association, 2023
• PeaceCon, Alliance for Peacebuilding, Washington, DC, 2023
• “Art and Health Drawing,” for resident doctors, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, 2023
• “The Nexus of Well-Being and Art Conference”, Mayo Clinic Alex School of Medicine, 2023
• “Hippocrates Café Live”, Center for Art and Medicine, University of Minnesota, 2023
• “What is Well-Being?,” RISE for Youth, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, 2023
• “Living into Dying: An Artistic Exploration of Well-Being during Life’s Passages,” with Cathy Wurzer, Minneapolis, MN, 2023
• “PartnersGlobal & International Human Rights Art Festival: Arts 4 Resilience”, Mini Fest, Washington, DC, 2022
• SPARK! Cultural Programming for People Living with Memory Loss at Minnesota Marine Art Museum, Winona, MN, 2022
• Professional Practice Lecture, Keynote speaker, Bethel University, Kansas, 2019
• “Slow Interventions: Moving Toward Connection in Creative Practice”, Presentation and panel discussion at Slow: A Symposium in Praxis & Theory, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts and the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), North Adams, MA, 2019
• “122 Conversations”, Tweed Museum of Art in association with 122 Conversations, 2018
• “122 Conversations”, Women’s Club, Duluth MN, 2018
• National Art Educators Association, Seattle, “Person to Person, Art Beyond Borders: Pedagogical  Possibilities of Peace through Participatory Art” (with Alison Aune, PhD)=, 2018
• Taught workshops for youth as part of 122 Conversations, Ohara Isumi-City, Japan, various locations, 2017
• Taught workshops for youth and seniors as part of 122 Conversations, Växjö, Sweden, Växjö Konsthall, 2017
• Minnesota Museum of American Art, round table addressing inclusiveness and engagement, St Paul, MN, 2016
• Presentation on Relational Listening at International Art Space, Berlin, Germany, 2016
• Art training for students and art teachers, Warren, PA, 2015 
• Engagement activity with 500 members of the public at Fourth Fest, Duluth, MN, 2015 
• Taught workshops for teens and seniors as part of 122 Conversations, Thunder Bay, Canada, 2015 
• Public artist talk, 122 Conversations, Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth, MN, 2014