COMPAS

05/30/2026

Come see us today at Flint Hills Family Festival and have some creative fun with COMPAS Teaching Artists Jen Scott and Evie Digirolamo. Learn about puppet-making with Jen and aerial arts with Evie. It's going to be a beautiful day!

Flint Hills Family Festival

05/29/2026

05/29/2026

We are still at Flint Hills Family Festival, and you need to come join the fun!

TONIGHT (Friday): Hang out and get creative with the dude in the video: COMPAS Teaching Artist Benjamin Domask-Ruh!

Tomorrow (Saturday): COMPAS TA Jen Scott will be on hand with creativity in the morning, and TA Evie Digirolamo later in the afternoon and evening.

It's all happening at Rice Park in downtown Saint Paul. Just steps away from the Ordway.

Come experience an event that has welcomed over one million students, teachers, and families to downtown Saint Paul for over 25 years!!

Details: Ordway.org/festival

05/28/2026

We're still not over this night.

The video from the 2026 Emerging Young Artists Award Show is here. Hit play and see what happens when young artists are given the tools, the space, and the encouragement to share what's inside them.

We're honored to be part of their journey, and so grateful to the Saint Paul Jaycees Charitable Foundation for their incredible gift. (Watch the video to learn about it!)

05/26/2026

Come hang out with us at the Flint Hills Family Festival! (Rice Park in downtown Saint Paul. Just steps away from the Ordway.) We'll be there all week (May 27-30).

Each day of the festival, COMPAS Teaching Artists and Performers will celebrate creativity with a new opportunity to explore many art forms: everything from Circus Arts to Indian Impermanent Art to button-making.

Come experience an event that has welcomed over one million students, teachers, and families to downtown Saint Paul for over 25 years!!

Details: https://ordway.org/festival/

05/13/2026

We're hiring Teaching Artists who are writers, filmmakers, photographers, graphic designers, and animators!

Bring your craft into schools, museums, libraries, and communities across Minnesota.

We're especially looking for Literary Teaching Artists and Digital and Electronic Media Teaching Artists with community-based arts or teaching artist experience.

We strongly encourage artists who identify as Native, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, LGBTQ+, and people with disabilities to apply. We also encourage artists living in Greater Minnesota, beyond the metro area, to apply.

Job info: https://www.compas.org/about/work/

Apply here: https://compas.submittable.com/submit/338886/preliminary-compas-roster-application

Round 1 closes May 26.

For questions, please contact Amanda Hestwood at [email protected].

We’re also holding a virtual info session about the opportunity:
Monday, May 18, 4 – 5 PM CST

Registration Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/7_tqJSE2T_ad5aCGZ8e0cQ

05/07/2026

COMPAS is accepting applications from Teaching Artists who want to join our roster. If you are interested, please attend our virtual info session on May 18 from 4-5pm CST.

Register for the info session here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/7_tqJSE2T_ad5aCGZ8e0cQ #/registration

More info about the hiring process here: https://www.compas.org/about/work/

We are particularly seeking:

- Literary Teaching Artists (particularly those working in K-12 classroom settings)

- Teaching Artists interested and available to work in K-12 classroom settings

- Teaching Artists with a Global Cultural Connection

- Digital Teaching Artists (digital art/illustration, graphic design, animation, etc.)

- Electronic Media Teaching Artists (photography, video, etc.)

We strongly encourage artists who identify as Native, Black,
Indigenous, and People of Color, LGBTQ+, and people with disabilities to apply. We also encourage artists living in Greater Minnesota, beyond the metro area, to apply.

05/04/2026

Happy Teacher Appreciation Week! 🎉

This week, we celebrate the educators who show up every day to inspire, challenge, and uplift students, including the COMPAS Teaching Artists who bring creativity into the classroom through music, poetry, visual arts, dance, theater, and more.

Your dedication shapes futures. Your passion sparks imagination.

And your work makes all the difference.

Thank you.

Photo: COMPAS TA Laura Korynta and students. https://www.compas.org/artist/laura-korynta/

11/25/2025

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