October 1997
Juanita Espinosa (Dakota and Ojibwe)
is a community organizer, mother, administrator, radio producer,
and member of the recently renamed Spirit Lake Nation in North
Dakota. She is a founder of the Native Arts Circle in Minneapolis,
Minn., which began as the Native American Cultural Arts Program,
to create a statewide Native arts agency designed to educate the
public about Native art and build a support system for Native
artists of Minnesota. Juanita is the Executive Director of the
Native Arts Circle and the mother of four children. She is active
on numerous community- and art-related boards of directors, including
the Minneapolis American Indian Center, The Funding Exchange-Paul
Robeson Fund, The People of Phillips Theater Task Force, and The
Science Museum of Minnesota, and she is the Chairperson of the
Second ATLATL Board. She was recently named to the Sundance Institute
Advisory Committee.
Image credit: Juanita
Espinosa - Photograph by Katherine Fogden, NMAI
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