Dr. Herman J. Milligan, Jr. – Managing Partner, The Fulton Group, LLC (Minneapolis); retired Vice President Wells Fargo Enterprise Marketing, Customer Insights & Analysis (Minneapolis/San Francisco); Ford Foundation Fellow in Music, Center for Contemporary Music/Mills College (Oakland); former Board of Directors, Minnesota Museum of American Art (St. Paul); Panelist for National Endowment for the Arts (Washington, D.C.), Minnesota State Arts Board (St. Paul); Arts Midwest (Minneapolis), and CEC ArtLink (New York); Board Volunteer service across U.S. and London (UK); Curator, artist, author, musician, and composer.
Dr. Patricia Marroquin Norby – Associate Curator of Native American Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York); former Senior Executive and Associate Director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian (New York); former Director of the D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies at The Newberry (Chicago).
Chanida Phaengdara Potter – Executive Director of The SEAD Project (Minneapolis); two-time chair of the National Lao American Writers Summit; co-founder of the online publication Little Laos on the Prairie; and she serves on the board of the Twin Cities Media Alliance. Potter collaborated with the M on the recent exhibition “1.5: A Southeast Asian Diaspora Remix.”
Colleen Sheehy – President and Executive Director, Public Art St. Paul; former Director and CEO, Plains Art Museum (Fargo); former Director of Education, Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis).
Dean Sobel – Associate Professor of Art History and Museum Studies, University of Denver, and former Director, Clyfford Still Museum (Denver), and former Director / Chief Curator, Aspen Art Museum (Aspen).