Vie Boheme is a Minneapolis-based multimodal artist whose work spans dance, music, performance, creative wellness and writing. A Motown native shaped by creative roots in Pittsburgh and Minneapolis, she is known for integrating singing and dancing in unison, collapsing the boundary between sound and movement through a fusion of soul, funk, jazz, R&B, and pop. Her career includes performing, choreographing, and collaborating with artists and institutions such as Stokley Williams, Camille A. Brown & Dancers, TU Dance, the Guthrie Theater, and The Children’s Theatre, as well as touring internationally through a U.S. Embassy cultural exchange. Trained at Point Park University and The Ailey School, Vie has also opened for international music acts Little Dragon, Bilal and J*Davey, delivered a TEDxMinneapolis talk on the value of performing arts titled "Is Performing Art Worth the Struggle?." Vie is also a yoga and wellness guide where her embodied practice extends into her CoreKinetics Yoga methodology. 

Photo by Drew Bryant, courtesy of the artist

Nell Pierce is a collage artist, acrylic painter, muralist and teaching artist who sees art as a powerful tool for telling both individual and collective stories. They were raised in California and Maine and fell in love with the artist and organizing community in Minneapolis in 2014. They’ve since resided on this beautiful and occupied Dakota homeland, Mni Sota Makoce, surrounded by people who teach them to live in questions about how to be in right relationship with this place as a European-American. 

They’ve been a facilitator and teacher for over 15 years, working with organizations like Telling My Story and the Speaking Out Collective to support people of all ages in schools, community centers, prisons, and other settings to connect to themselves and feel agency in creating their own narratives through visual art and theater. In 2024, they started teaching art classes for adults out of their studio.

In their personal practice, they create paintings and collages (primarily portraits) on commission. They are currently working on a multi-year series, Q’llage, that explores how the strategies that support them and their queer community to stay true to themselves are mirrored in the natural world — drawing from their own experience and interviews with people in their LGBTQ2IA+ community. 

Photo by Drew Arrieta, courtesy of the artist