Overflow Radio

Welcome from the Executive Director

Welcome to another extraordinary season of dance and music at Northrop — a season we are proud to offer, inspired by your curiosity, energy and commitment to making the arts a central part of life.

Rooted in the belief that the arts are essential to the human experience, Northrop is committed to cultivating intersections between performing arts and education — for all participants, now and for generations to come. This season, those intersections will be more vibrant than ever. We have curated performances that stretch boundaries, inspire reflection and celebrate both innovation and tradition in equal measure.

You’ll see in this season’s lineup a range of world-class artists and ensembles — some of whom we know well, others who bring voices and perspectives new to our stage. Each program is selected not only for its artistic excellence, but also for its ability to provoke thought, open dialogue and offer learning opportunities beyond the stage: workshops, pre-show discussions, community gatherings and more. These elements are meant to deepen your experience, helping to illuminate context, process and the living, breathing nature of creative work.

As part of the University’s teaching, research and service mission, Northrop strives to be a catalyst — igniting transformation in each individual, inspiring positive change in our world. Through the rhythm of dance, the textures of music and the shared moments among us in the audience, we hope you will find something that moves you, surprises you and invites you to see the world just a little differently.

I invite you to join us not just as spectators, but as participants. Ask questions. Bring friends. Explore more. Share what you experience. We are honored to present this season, and even more honored to share it with a community that values what the arts offer — beauty, challenge, joy and connection.

Thank you for being here and supporting Northrop. Together, let us make Northrop’s 97th season remarkable.

With gratitude,
Kari Schloner
Executive Director

Welcome from the Advisory Board Chair

Dear Friends,

On behalf of the Northrop Advisory Board, it is my great pleasure to welcome you to Northrop, the University of Minnesota’s historic home for the performing arts. For almost a century, Northrop has been a place where artistry, learning and community converge — a stage not only for extraordinary performances but also for dialogue, discovery and inspiration.

Each season, Northrop presents world-class dance, music and other performances, and serves as a gathering place for students, faculty and community members alike. These experiences enrich our campus and our state, fostering the creativity, curiosity and cultural understanding that are so vital in today’s world.

Your presence here affirms the importance of the arts in higher education and in civic life. We invite you to be more than an audience member — become an advocate for the arts. Share your experiences, bring new friends to Northrop and help us amplify the voices of artists and thinkers who inspire us to see the world anew.

We also ask you to consider a gift to Northrop. Your financial support ensures that future generations can access the transformative power of the arts, that students can encounter artists in their classrooms as well as on our stage and that our community can continue to gather here for moments that move and unite us.

Thank you for being part of Northrop’s story. Together, we can sustain this remarkable institution and secure its role as a cultural cornerstone for decades to come.

With gratitude,
Kelly McQueen, Chair, Northrop Advisory Board

Cast And Crew Bios

Emily Johnson is an artist who makes body-based work. Emily belongs to the Yup'ik Nation, is a land and water protector and an organizer for justice, sovereignty and well-being. A Bessie Award-winning choreographer, Guggenheim, Native Arts and Cultures Foundation, United States Artists, Braiding Seeds, Forge Project, Center CIRCL Fellow, and recipient of the Doris Duke Artist Award, among others, Emily is based in Lenapehoking / NYC. Since 1998, Emily's large-scale performance gatherings insist thrivance, radical reworlding, and just futures. Her gatherings function as portals and care processions, engaging audienceship within and through space, time, environment — interacting with a place's architecture, peoples, histories and role in building futures. Emily is trying to make a world where performance is part of life; where performance is an integral connection to each other, our environment, our stories, our past, present and future.

Emily’s choreography and gatherings have been presented across what is currently called the United States, Canada, and Australia. Her current project, Overflow Radio is a performance, skill-share, planting of 1,000 trees, and radio transmission taking place over 24 non-consecutive hours within a massive quilt installation and across geographies and territories. Emily’s recent work, Being Future Being, premiered on Tongva Land in Los Angeles in 2022, and was presented at PICA’s TBA Festival, Bates Dance Festival, Jacob’s Pillow, New York Live Arts and Festival TransAmériques, among others. Her large-scale project, Then a Cunning Voice and A Night We Spend Gazing at Stars is an all-night exchange of stories, dance, ideas, food, stars and sky that premiered in Lenapehoking (NYC) in 2017 and was presented in Zhigaagoong (Chicago) in 2019. She choreographed the Santa Fe Opera production of Doctor Atomic, directed by Peter Sellars in 2018.

Emily’s lectures and writings have been published and commissioned by Art + Climate at DiverseWorks, Playwrights Canada Press, The Routledge Companion to Performance Art, The Open Society University Network’s Center for Human Rights and the Arts, CEC Artslink, The Poetry Project, ArtsLink Australia, unMagazine, Dance Research Journal (University of Cambridge Press); SFMOMA; Transmotion Journal, University of Kent; Movement Research Journal; Pew Center for Arts and Heritage; and the compilation Imagined Theaters (Routledge), edited by Daniel Sack. Emily authored the Decolonization Rider (2020), a document that now serves as a foundation for structural change work in hundreds of cultural institutions across what is called the United States.

Emily hosts monthly fires on Mannahatta in partnership with Urban Cree scholar Kai Recollet. Emily was the Pueblo Opera Cultural Council Diplomat at Santa Fe Opera 2018-2020. She was a lead organizer of First Nations Dialogues, a member of Creative Time’s inaugural Think Tank, a co-compiler of the documents, Creating New Futures: Guidelines for Ethics and Equity in the Performing Arts and Notes for Equitable Funding. Emily served as Social Practice Resident at Kennedy Center for the Arts (2021-2022) and is a Social Practice Artist in Residence at Abrons Arts Center (2019-present). Emily is co-lead forFirst Nations Performing Arts.

Maggie Thompson is Fond du Lac Ojibwe and was born and raised in Minneapolis. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in textiles at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in 2013. As a textile artist and designer, she derives her inspiration from family history, Ojibwe heritage and the broader Native American experience. Skillfully and intuitively working with both natural and synthetic materials, Thompson’s multimedia artwork expands various textile traditions’ inherited ways of being and becoming. Thompson had her first solo exhibition, “Where I Fit” at All My Relations Gallery in Minneapolis in 2014, and was most recently included in “The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American Sculpture” in 2024 and the 2023 Renwick Invitational "Sharing Honors and Burdens" at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and Renwick Gallery. Recent solo exhibitions include "Loves Me, Loves Me Not," Mardag Gallery, Franconia Sculpture Park, Shafer, Minnesota (2023); "Just Friends," Bockley Gallery, Minneapolis (2022), and "Dakobijige/ She Ties Things Together," Watermark Center, Bemidji, Minnesota (2021). She has exhibited in numerous group exhibitions in Minnesota, including at the Plains Art Museum, Minnesota Textile Center, Walker Art Center, and Minneapolis Institute of Art. Thompson has been awarded grants and awards, including in 2023 the All My Relations and Bockley Gallery Jim Denomie Scholarship, Jerome Foundation Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship, First Peoples Fund Seeding Cultural Treasures Grant, the Minnesota State Arts Board and Native Arts and Cultures Foundation. Her work is collected by the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Minnesota Museum of American Art, Minnesota Historical Society, North Dakota Museum of Art, Hood Museum, Tia Collection and Field Museum, among others. In addition to her fine arts practice, Thompson runs a knitwear business known as Makwa Studio. She has also worked on curating special exhibits in Minnesota’s Twin Cities, including at Two Rivers Gallery, the McKnight Foundation and the Minnesota Museum of American Art.

Artist and designer Korina Emmerich founded the slow fashion brand EMME Studio in 2015. Her colorful work celebrates her paternal Indigenous heritage from the Puyallup tribe while aligning art and design with education. With a strong focus on social and climate justice, Emmerich's artwork strives to expose and dismantle systems of oppression in the fashion industry and challenge colonial ways of thinking. Emmerich has worked as a board member, special advisor and educator with The Slow Factory Foundation, a board member of The Fibers Fund and she works as the materials and exhibitions steward with Emily Johnson / Catalyst. In 2026, Korina was honored with The Pratt Institute Fashion Visionary Award. She is the co-founder of Relative Arts, a brick-and-mortar community space, open studio and shop that showcases contemporary Indigenous fashion and design in NYC’s East Village, providing a peer-run space that fosters the advancement of Indigenous futurism through collaboration, celebration and education. In 2025, she co-founded and stepped into the role of executive director for the inaugural Indigenous New York Fashion Week, launching runways for over 30 Indigenous designers, over 60 Indigenous models and produced programming of Indigenous excellence in music and art. Her artwork and designs have been featured in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, MoMA PS1, The Denver Art Museum, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, La Biennale d'art Contemporain Autochtone, The Musée McCord Stewart, The Textile Museum of Canada, Vogue, Elle, InStyle, The New York Times, New York Magazine and more notable publications. She has presented her collections in Vancouver Indigenous Fashion Week, Indigenous Fashion and Arts Toronto, Santa Fe Indian Market's Couture Runway Show, NYFW and Indigenous New York Fashion Week.

Craig Hensala is a producer, arts administrator and consultant living and working in Lenapehoking, also known as New York City, where for more than 25 years he has worked across contemporary visual art, performance and interdisciplinary production. He collaborates with artists, curators, presenters and cultural organizations to develop commissions, performances, exhibitions, public programs and artist-centered initiatives from concept through presentation.

Hensala’s clients and collaborators have included Danspace Project, Performa, The New Museum, Artists Space, The Kitchen, Stephen Petronio Company, John Kelly Performance, STREB, Simon Watson Arts, Amnesty International USA, Planned Parenthood, Bergdorf Goodman,\ and ARTWALK NY. He has produced artist projects featuring Anohni, Janine Antoni, assume vivid astro focus, Nina Chanel Abney, Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Xavier Le Roy, Constanza Macras, Marilyn Minter, Yoko Ono, Ugo Rondinone, Mickalene Thomas, Lawrence Weiner and Ai Weiwei, among many others.

He has served on advisory boards for the LGBTQ+ Artists Archive Project, Teachers and Writers Collaborative, LEAP-Learning Through an Expanded Arts Program, David Neumann/Advanced Beginner Group, Stephen Petronio Company and Grace Church Choral Society.

Writer Bios

Minneapolis-Based Skill-Share and Food Justice Partners

Minneapolis Tree Steward Network Partners

Dream of Wild Health, Tree Steward Network Partner
Dream of Wild Health (DWH) is an intertribal, independent 501(c)3 nonprofit that serves the Minneapolis-Saint Paul Native American community. Dream of Wild Health is one of the longest continually operating Native American organizations in the Twin Cities. DWH owns a 30-acre farm in Hugo, Minn., providing educational programs that reconnect the urban Native American community with traditional Native plants and their culinary, medicinal and spiritual use. DWH maintains an urban presence in Minneapolis with offices in the heart of the Phillips neighborhood in the Native American Cultural Corridor on Franklin Avenue.
 

OwámniYomni Okhódayapi, Tree Steward Network Partner
Owámniyomni Okhódayapi is a Dakota-led nonprofit creating a future where Dakota culture has a vital presence and Dakota values — such as mní wičhóni, or water is life — are embedded into our communal existence. We are currently working to transform five acres of land at Owámniyomni (St. Anthony Falls) into a place of restoration, education, healing and connection.

The Owámniyomni project is a groundbreaking effort to heal a sacred Dakota site desecrated through colonization and industrialization. It is reconnecting us to the River that has been a source of identity, inspiration and opportunity for Dakhóta oyáte (Dakota people) and others who call this place home.
 

Green Cities Accord, Tree Steward Network Partner
Green Cities Accord’s mission is to foster climate-resilient communities through investments in tree canopy infrastructure.
 

Neighborhood Forest, Tree Steward Network Partner
Neighborhood Forest is a youth-based tree planting initiative based in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis / St. Paul.
 

Mississippi Park Connection, Tree Steward Network Partner
Mississippi Park Connection is the place-based nonprofit organization in the Twin Cities seeking to connect people to the outdoors through hands-on, meaningful experiences on public lands. We accomplish this through habitat restoration, recreational activities, volunteerism, affinity programs and community events on the river and in the park.
 

Gathering of Conversations Bios

Brenda Child is an Ojibwe historian and author, professor of American Studies and former chair of the Departments of American Studies and the Department of American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota.
 

Diane Wilson is a Dakota writer, educator and bog steward who has published five books and served as the former director of Dream of Wild Health, a food sovereignty organization working with Indigenous youth.
 

Kate Beane is Executive Director of the Minnesota Museum of American Art. She is Flandreau Santee Dakota and Muskogee Creek, and leads language revitalization and reclamation of place names in her home territory of Mni Śóta Makoċe.
 

Carly Bad Heart Bull, who is Flandreau Santee Dakota and Muskogee Creek, is a lawyer and Executive Director of Native Ways Federation and a board member of Native Americans in Philanthropy.
 

Maggie Thompson is a Fond du Lac Ojibwe textile artist whose work focuses on heritage and identity while addressing cultural appropriation.
 

Mona Smith is a Sisseton-Wahpeton Dakota storyteller, documentary producer and artist lead for Healing Place Collaborative, and creator of Bdote Memory Map.
 

Owámniyomni Okhódayapi
Owámniyomni Okhódayapi is Dakota-led and the organization has a Native American majority board of directors. Owámniyomni Okhódayapi is creating a future where Dakota culture has a vital presence and Dakota values — such as mní wičhóni , or water is life — are embedded into our communal existence. We are currently working to transform five acres of land at Owámniyomni (St. Anthony Falls) into a place of restoration, education, healing and connection.
 

Waḳan Ṭípi
Named to honor the significance of Waḳan Ṭípi Cave as a Dakota sacred site, the mission of Waḳan Ṭípi Center is to serve as an intergenerational gathering place that honors Waḳan Ṭípi and Wic̣aḣapi as Daḳota sacred sites. Our work here connects people to this sacred landscape through immersive experiences in Daḳota history, lifeways, language and values.
 

84 Quilts

Communities around the world have shared their visions for the future on these 84 quilts that form a single 4,000-square-foot design created by Fond du Lac Ojibwe textile artist Maggie Thompson, and stitched with volunteers over years of community sewing gatherings.

These quilts transport messages from individuals in communities across what is currently called the U.S., Australia and Taiwan, among an ongoing list of contributors. They are responses to the work’s central questions: “What do you want for your well-being? For the well-being of your chosen friends and family? For your neighborhood? For your town, city, reserve, nation, world?”

Writing these questions with the Native American Community Development Initiative in 2013, we focused on the want. We focused on future imagined possibilities. We imagined people imagining, speaking, writing ideas beyond the locus of the usual. We wanted ourselves, our chosen families and friends, our communities — momentary, long-standing, small or large — to envision a future that is different from the one we are on a path toward. It’s a community-sourced visioning process that continues even now.

The quilts served as audience seating, performance area, resting area and “home” for presentations of Catalyst’s 15-hour all-night performance gathering and feast, “Then a Cunning Voice and A Night We Spend Gazing at Stars.”

The quilts welcome community at monthly fire gathering in Manahatta on the Lower East Side for Catalyst’s ongoing project with Kai Recollet, “Kinstillatory Mappings in Light and Dark Matter.”

The quilts have been transformed by fashion designer Korina Emmerich into futuristic beings that appear throughout Catalyst’s multiscalar performance series, “Being Future Being.”

The quilts now create an architecture for Overflow Radio.
 

Some quilt stories:

Quilt #28

This quilt was created during an event where community members gathered along the American Indian Cultural Corridor to raise money for the Water Protectors at Standing Rock. Two Rivers Gallery located at the Minneapolis American Indian Center opened its doors to have a community visioning session where people could write on a quilt square in response to what was happening with the Pipeline.

This quilt in turn becomes a record of this historical event, and how our local community responded and took action.

— Maggie Thompson
 

Quilt #2

This quilt travelled back and forth from Turtle Island to Australia many times in its making across the course of 2016 and 2017. It records this travel and the ideas generated over this time by community members and residents — lifelong, generations long and newly arrived — of North Melbourne.

At one Community Visioning workshop held at Arts House, we brainstormed hundreds of ideas onto sticky notes, put them up on the wall, took some down, expanded them into worlds of possibility of their own. Noting the beginning of this action, Hannah Morphy Walsh of the Kulin Nations, the Traditional Owners of the land now called Victoria, Australia, writes, “I skip across the room with a single word: fire.”

Students at St. Joseph’s Flexible Learning Center are newly arrived refugees to Australia seeking asylum for themselves and for their families. We sat together, talking and sewing. I learnt about the boats some of them took to get to Australia, about no food for weeks, about not being able to stretch from a curled position unless a choice was made to lie in the water. We talked about a lot of things. “Close every refugee camp.” That is a square you can find on this quilt.

Each moment of this quilt carries a different kind of attention — listening and brainstorming, teaching to stitch and learning new knots. I believe it remembers each of these moments and each person part of them. I believe it holds possibility and a current tense simultaneously. Hannah continues: “The notes do not stay up. I could find the mundane explanation between the glue and the rough, dusty walls, but I prefer to believe that they pressed themselves against the floor, through it, back to the ground that bore them and us, that each aspiration wanted to be known deeply and completely.”

— Emily Johnson
 

Quilt Contributors

Special Thanks to the Minneapolis-Based Team
Maggie Thompson, Phyllis Hupp, Renee Carey, Peggy Thompson, Jane Eichten, Mary Ahler, MJ Potamites, Isa Boike, Julia Bither, Debbie Woodward

Special Thanks to our current Materials Caretaker / Exhibitions Steward and Assistant Quilt and Materials Caretaker
Korina Emmerich and Nishina Shapwaykeesic-Loft.
 

Community Partners

Minneapolis and Richfield, Minn.:
Two Rivers Gallery, Makwa Studio, Native American Community Development Institute, Northern Spark, Richfield Farmers Market, Anishinaabe Academy, Courage Kenny Rehabilitation Institute, Birchwood Senior Living, Northrup King Building, Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, Minnesota Museum of American Art

New York City: 
The Lenape Center, Performance Space 122, Abrons Art Center, Broome Street Academy, Gibney Dance, The Ace Hotel, Ideas City at New Museum, Randall’s Island Park Alliance, Urban Farm on Randall’s Island, New York Live Arts, Lower East Side Girls Club

Wassaic, N.Y:
The Wassaic Project

Anchorage, Alaska: 
Anchorage Museum

Narrm/Melbourne, Australia:
ArtsHouse Melbourne, City of Melbourne, St. Joseph’s Flexible Learning Center, SHORE: Feast at MeatMarket

Natimuk, Australia:
Time Place Space Residency with ArtsHouse and City of Natimuk

Sydney, Australia:
Critical Path

Williamstown, Mass.:
Williams College, Williamstown Farmers Market, The Clark, Williamstown Elementary class of 2026, the Williams College class of 2020

North Adams, Mass.:
 Makers Mill, MASS MoCA, Mohawk Forest Resident Development Initiative

Pittsfield, Mass.:
Common Threads Initiative

Tucson, Ariz.:
Pima Arts Council

San Francisco:
Headlands Center for the Arts, Point Arena Manchester Dancers, Ohlone Profiles Project

Chicago: 
City of Chicago, Department of Cultural Affairs, Envision Unlimited

Tallahassee, Fla.:
Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography

Omaha, Neb.: 
Bemis Center for the Arts
 

Individual Contributors, updated November 2025:

Minneapolis Sewing Gatherings
Angela Fahey, Beth Palkke, Casey Vilt, Chantz Erolin, Chrsitie Zabriski, Claire King, Deborah Wood, Diane Grammond, Gabe Hoelscher-Wolking, Gabe Moore, Isa Boike, Jackie Keller, Janet Tripp, Julia Bither, Kate Bean, Kathleen Gavin, Kelly Marshall, Kelsey Squires, Lila Cherneff, Maggie Thompson, Maria Asp, Mary Ahler, Mary Tholkes, Matt Conway, MJ Potamites, Nick Bither, Peggy Thompson, Philip Bither, Phyllis Hupp, Rasah Singleton, Rebecca Gibson, Renee Carey, Sami Pffefer, Susan Schoon, Susan Thornton, Jill Johanson, Virginia Matter, Betty Carlson, Women’s Spirituality Group from Mayflower UCC, Terry Robertson, Sarah Balanger, Beth Palkki, Judyth Calabay, Jon West, Taylor Payer, Jenny Rappaport, Avnee Jetley, Amara Abdal Figueroa, Thomas Rush, Topher Gent, Cory Zapatka, Christie Vergona

North Adams Sewing Gatherings
Meredith Boggia, Rachel Boggia, Barbara Boggia, Caitlin Bohmer, Sandra Burton, Adrian Dunn, Randal Fippenger, Amy Hotzapfel, Ana, Anna Harlem, Anne Singleton, Cassie Lavoie, Cheryl Tarcznski, Chris Janson, Donglin Zhang, Gwyneth Henke, Isaac, Jane Preston, Kate Barber, Katherine, Kirsten Rose, Laini Sporbert, Maggie Reynolds, Mia Weinland, Michael Muller, Rita Sporbert, Ross Hoch, Sharif Rosen, Tess Richman, Wendy

Guilford Vermont Sewing Gatherings
Eric Cha-Beach, Ayano Kataoka, Luz Carime Santa-Coloma, Yumi Tamashiro, Jason Treuting

New York Sewing Gatherings
Sarah Rose, Rita Metsopoulos, Yeabsera Tabb, Sumaiya Saiyed, Mckenna Goade, Kasia Hope, Alekz Thoms, Darya Nicol, Andrea Geyer, Juana Vargas Moreno, H. Lan Thao, Donna Couteau, Noelle Guarin, Adina Farinango, Eli Farinango, Charlie Uruchima, Diana Thompson, Patricia Gill,Leeland Parker, Raneem Janoubi, Nera Lerner, Aries Grutter, Tanya Marquard, Tyy Fierce, Alex Franklin, Kris Waymire, Abvee Jetley, Alan Michelson, Alec Lichtenberg, Alex Reeves, Alicia Figueroa, Alicia Howard, Alicia Lucas, Alicia Renee, Alisha Tonsic, Allan Andre, Amanda Long, Amir Andrews, Amy Koshbin, Andrew, Horwitz, Andrew Slone, Anneke Hansen, Annika Lewis, Antoniya S., Ariel Stewart, Ashlin Hatch, Barbara Carrelas, Ben Graetz, Ben Pryor, Benedikte Esperi, Benjamin Kimitch, Bob Bursey, Brad Burgess, Brian Rogers, Buck Romero, Cairlin Cook-Isaacson, Carin Kuoni, Catherine Jones, Cassandra Gardiner, Celia Ipiotis, Chana Widawski, Christine Murray, Christopher Green, Chuck Macdonald, Chuey Aparicio, Claire Bidwell, Clothild Cardinal, Coco Cafe, Colette Nguyen, Collette Brennan, Craig Reeves, Daniel Banks, Daniel Droste, Daniel Schlusser, David Clark, David White, Debra Duchin, Diane Fraher, Edisa Weeks, Eleanor Savage, Elisabeth Skjærvold, Eliza Bowman, Elizabeth R Daly, Elizabeth Zimmer, Emily Johnson, Emma Rivera, Erin Doughton, Fenn Gordon, Florian Malzacher, Fransely Perez, Gabe Rosenberg, George Lugg, Georgia Lucas, Grace Osborne, Haleema Forson, Heather Henson, Ivan Martinez, Iviva Olenick, Jaclyn Karasik, Jaidah F., Jaime Shearn Coan, James Smith, Jane Gabriels, Jane Preston, Janet Stapleton, Janice Fongkin, Jaskiran Dhillon, Jason Treuting, Jennifer Calieness, Jenny Rappaport, Jenny Schlenzka, Jeso O’Neill, Jessica Barzell, Jill Miersch, Jill Strauss, Jillian Sweeney, Jiqing Yu, JJ Liato, JJ Lind, John Robinson, John Scott, Jonathan Jacobs, Jonette Jamison, Jordan Charles, Jordan Harrison, Josh Quillen, Judey Harquail, Judy Hussie-Taylor, Kaite Brewer-Ball, Kambiz Shekdar, Karyn Recollet, Katie Parl, Kehaulani Kauanui, Kelsey Galloway, Kim Chang, Kirsten Saladow, Kris Nelson, Kristina Wong, Larissa FastHorse, Laura Nicoll, Lauren Snelling, Lea Ono, Lee-Ann Buckskin, Leila Vaezazizi, Lindsay Barrenz, Lisa D’Amour, Louis Kleinman, Lulu Olvera, Luz Carime Santa-Coloma, Maedhbh McCullagh, Magnus Nordberg, Maria Firmino-Castillo, Maria Hupfield, Marie Bobin, Marina Celander, Mario Caro, Marisa Wallin, Mark Minch, Martha Joseph, Mary Egan, Mary Miles, Matt Finch, Maura Donohue, Mauri Connors, Megan Hope Wright, Meiyin Wang, Melissa Levin, Meng-Hsuan Lin, Meredith Boggia, Michelle Boule, Milagros Colon, Minkie English, Mique’l Dangeli, Miranda Wright, Miriam Rubin, Moira Brennan, Marya Wethers, Muriel Miguel, Natalie Cash Persson, Natalie Neubert, Nick Slie, Nicky Paraiso, Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone, Nina Felshin, Patrick Gallagher, Paula Bennett, Quizayra Gonzalez, Rachel Ellis Neyra, Rachel Ogle, Rachel Parish, Rebecca Klassen, Rebecca Pappas, Renee Schwartz, Robin Schatell, Ron Berry, Roya Amirsoleymani, Rulan Tangen, Ruth Wikler-Luker, Ryan Conarro, Ryan Schlief, Sacy Steinberg, San San Wong, Sanaz Ghajarrahimi, Sandra L Burson, Sara Nash, Sarah Trignano, Sari Nordman, Shana Deane, Shari Hallida-Quan, Shawnee Rice, Sherrine Azab, Shoshana Polanco, Simeon Moran, Stephen Jackson, Sue Urquhart, Suzanne Callahan, Sylvain Sorghe, Tara Mooney, Tavia Nyongo, Terry Sweeney, Thomas Lax, Thomas Rush, Tim Kuhl, Tim Wilson, Topher Gent, Tre Gene, Tricia Pierson, Un-Magritt Nordseth, Vallejo Gantner, Vanessa Watson, Veronica Hackethal, Vicki Van Hout, Victor Caccese, Violaine Huisman, Viviana Benitez, VK Preson, Wallis Uzoagba, Wally Gunn, Wilson McGrory, Yandry Escoto, Yasemin Ozumerzifon, Yazmine Mihojevish, Yolanda Cesta-Cursach, Yoli Nigan, Yumi Tamashiro, Zach Barocas, Zaria Austin, Zuzu Myers, Lorely Trinidad, Zorn Ontal, Isabelle Winstead, Kyoung-son Song, Emily Morris, Julia Dobner-Peseira, Jose Pullutasig, Sahara Tankersley, Monique Flores

Melbourne Sewing Gatherings
Alba Alshammari, Ammar AlAbrahimi, Araran Kirshshanshani, Arman Emor, Bibi Zakia, Deepak Sanisdarlin, Farshad Asadi, Hassan Chaie, Mahdi Saadati, Matin Nezami, Mohammad Reza Shojae, Nargeas Hussein, Rania Milhem, Sarah Ahmadi, Shahla Sayani, Toganath Srirangan, Zeirab Martzaee

Anchorage Sewing Gatherings
30 Creekside Park Students, Alice Green, Amy Meissner, Aneliese Palmer, Angie Demma, Arlyom Kesler, Audrey Armstrong, Claire Prestegard, Dawn Biddison, Elissa Meyers, Grace Graham, Iryna McCosney, Jamie Newsom Eaton, Janet Nathey, Julie Varee, Monica Shah, Nicole Allison Bergt, Preston Cook, Saskra Van Walsum, Sharon Walsh, Shawn Combs, Sonya Kelliner-Combs, Trina Landlord

Chicago Sewing Gatherings
Kenneth Johnson, Meggalliecci, Judith Brown, Latasha Hart, Maria Marin, Beth Marin, Rosa Marin, Arnaldo Ciassen, Yolanda Brown, Marcus Womack, Kristen Noonan, William C., Charles A., Florencio Antonelloa, Sierra Villacorta, Ana Chaidez, Jonathan Brown, Ashley Elrod, Leoha, Benion, Lilyana Villegas, Marquieta Taylor, Paula Moore, Jeannette Sanchez, Amanda Mendez, Kate Brennan, Smit Badiyami, Marcia Hawk, Lage Klappstein, Janita Itarris, Ronald Hearns, Carolie Keenan, Kaitiaki Keenan, Tidello Colici, Nana Jenkins, Ruta Teismann, Elise Knaub, Rachael Violassi, Carolina Pari, Amy Mall, Jaiya Mall-Ord, Andrea Ortega

Los Angeles Sewing Gatherings
Cindi Alvitre, Marc Arranaga, Lukas Avendaño, Elizabeta Betinski, Olivia Chumacero, Gisella Cruz, Jon Cuevas, María Regina Firmino-Castillo, Javier Fresquez, Tom Grode, Eileen Herrmann, Rosalia Lerner, Jennie Liu, George Lugg, Estrella Luna, Sara Lyons, Caden Manson, Christine Marie, Sam Aros Mitchell, Jacqueline Shea Murphy, Odeya Nini, Grace Osborne, Antonio Rodriguez, Iris Schneider, Angeline Shaka, Lorene Sisquoc, Lucretia Stinnette, Rulan Tangen, Fabiola Torralba, Craig Torres, Miriam Vazquez, Ian-Julian Williams, Jan Williamson, Miranda Wright, Zeynep Yeldan, Bethany Yellowtail

Northern California Sewing Gathering
Charlene Doan, Ayako Tamashiro

Montréal Sewing Gathering
Thalia Pigier, Anrelie Ann Figaro, Sonia Bustos, Emile Martz-Kuhn, Yohaynz Hernandes, Emmanuelle Jeffé, Jessie Mill, IV Castellanos

Sag Harbor Sewing Gathering
Dina Khairy, Danielle Hopsan Begun, Almond Zigmund, Francesca Valow, Irina Adam, Cecilia Lim, David Frye, Irina Almanestianv, Tony Only, Janet Brand, Marj Elkin, Setha Low, Mangit Galanter, Mary-Beth Shine, Cati Van Milders, Juan C. Giraldo, Sherri Pasquadella, Billy Baldwin, Tracey Loggia, Eliza Gatfield, Aurora Donofrio, Sara Throne, Cynthia Battaglia

We have done our best to track as many sewists as we could. Thank you to the many hundreds more of you who stopped by to stitch with us for a day, many days, an hour or a stitch!

From Emily Johnson / Catalyst

Special Thanks

Quyana cakneq to my loved ones in Minneapolis and to thought partners Brenda Child, Carly Bad Heart Bull, Mona Smith, Maggie Thompson, Kate Beane, Diane Wilson. Quyana Amanda and Margaret at OwámniYomni, and Jason at Dream of Wild Health for your trust, conversations and brilliance. Thank you to the staff at Northrop, and to Kristen Brogdon for your commitment to structural change. Thank you, Carl, for your years of support in the development of Overflow Radio and Catalyst’s commitments in Minneapolis. Quyana to the entire Catalyst team for holding and bringing Overflow Radio into the world in so many tentacular ways and especially to Kwim’aq, for whom the overflow is.
 

Acknowledgments

Overflow Radio is a National Performance Network Creation & Development Fund Project commissioned by Roy and Edna Disney / CalArts Theater (REDCAT) and co-commissioned DiverseWorks, MASS MoCA and University of Minnesota Department of Theatre Arts & Dance, more information at www.npnweb.org.

Overflow Radio is developed through creative residencies provided by MASS MoCA, John and Mabel Ringling Museum of Art, Roy and Edna Disney / CalArts Theater, University of Minnesota’s Imagine Fund with support from the McKnight Foundation, and Danspace Project with support from the New York State DanceForce, a partnership program of the New York State Council on the Arts.

Overflow Radio is created with generous support from First Peoples Fund, Howard Gilman Foundation, Harkness Foundation for Dance, and the New England Foundation for the Arts' National Dance Project with lead funding from the Doris Duke Foundation and The Mellon Foundation.

A Gathering of Conversations is supported by Overflow Radio, the Imagine Fund and A Blade of Grass.

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Acknowledgments from Northrop

This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a Minnesota State Arts Board Operating Support grant, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.
 

Thank you for supporting Northrop!

You make legendary performances possible!

At Northrop, we believe in connecting great artists and ideas with our community and to a new generation of audiences. Your gift helps make memorable arts experiences possible by supporting extraordinary performances and new arts commissions, and helping ensure accessibility to everyone through live-streamed programming, outreach to diverse communities and subsidized student tickets. Our Friends are at the center of Northrop’s biggest ideas and brightest moments on stage.

Become a Friend of Northrop today! 

Learn More and Donate Online

Ways to Give:

• Annual Giving, a yearly gift amount of your choice.
• Monthly Giving, choose a recurring gift amount that works for you.
• Stock Gifts, Northrop accepts charitable gifts of stock.
• Planned Giving, consider a legacy gift by including Northrop in your will or trust, or by designating Northrop as a beneficiary of a retirement plan or life insurance policy.
• Matching Gifts, double your gift through your company’s matching gift program.

To learn more about supporting Northrop please contact:
Cynthia Betz
betzx011@umn.edu or 612-626-7554 

The Northrop Advisory Board is committed to the growth and awareness of Northrop’s mission, vision, and the continued future of presenting world-class dance and music in our community. If you would like more information about the advisory board and its work, please contact Cynthia Betz, Director of Development, at 612-626-7554 or betzx011@umn.edu.

With the restoration and reinstallation of Northrop’s Aeolian-Skinner Opus 892 organ, a group of dedicated volunteers now partner with Northrop for the awareness, success, and growth of organ programming and education. The Northrop Organ Committee features volunteers who are help with advocacy, network building, relationship development, and fundraising to help sustain and build Northrop’s Pipe Organ Music Series and other community events.

The Northrop Campus & Community Council acts as a resource for Northrop’s future success and growth, ensuring that Northrop builds relationships with and engages the communities where we live, learn, and work. This group of committed volunteers helps Northrop connect with new audiences and advises on programming that reflects the diverse communities we serve.

 Friends of Northrop

A special thank you to our patrons whose generous support makes Northrop's transformative arts experiences possible. Make your mark on Northrop's future by becoming a Friend today, learn more by visiting Northrop's Give page.

We gratefully acknowledge the support from the Anna M Heilmaier Charitable Foundation, Americans for the Arts/National Relief Fund, Curtis L. Carlson Family Foundation, City of Minneapolis, Minnesota State Arts Board, New England Foundation for the Arts, United States Artists, hospitality partner the Graduate Hotel Minneapolis, and event sponsors PNC Bank and RBC Wealth Management.

This season's listing reflects gifts made from July 1, 2025 to September 1, 2026.
Please contact Matthew Keefe at keefe175@umn.edu  if you have any corrections or questions.