BEST IN ART v4.25

Tuesday, 4.22.25, 5:30-7:00 PM
North Mankato Spring Lake Park Warming House
641 Webster Ave, North Mankato, MN 56003

Cathryn Salis

Cathryn Salis (they/she) is a lifelong learner and arts educator living in Minneapolis, MN. As a multidisciplinary artist with a passion for education, their pieces reflect her devotion to sustainability and accessibility of processes. Salis received their BA in Studio Arts from Hamline University in 2024 and spends their free time teaching art to all ages. When they are not teaching art, they are leading an elementary classroom and have aspirations to be a public elementary art teacher. Salis enjoys fostering art making skills as a tool for both academic and personal expression, as well as an emotional regulation support.

Salis’ prints and 2D work reflects the context of their sculptural counterparts and the internal world from which they are born. Tumultuous but whimsical, Salis exhibits a body of work reflecting anger, intrigue, sexuality, and longing for a discarded piece of self. Reusing matrices and artifacts from her past, Salis endeavors to use what she has held onto to create something new. 

Taylor Krengel

Taylor Krengel is a new found artist out of Mankato working with acrylic paint and stretched canvas. By day Taylor is a full time Registered Nurse, and Assistant Director of Health Services at The Pillars of Mankato. By evening Taylor restores her soul by painting at home with her family. The primary focus of her art is expressionism, and inspiring others with possible messages. Her work is highly influenced by the human condition, and cultural diversity. 

Kaleb Braun-Schulz

Kaleb Braun-Schulz is a Mankato born songwriter, musician, poet, storyteller, and student. Since 2014, Braun-Schulz has been writing music and performing that music all over MN, IA, and WI. Currently involved with five musical projects, studying creative writing at MSU, and holding a part time job, Kaleb is a busy fellow who is always driven to keep creating. In the fall of 2024, Braun-Schulz and his Nightingale Band released their third full length studio album, ‘The Things You’ve Kept, You’ll Keep Until…’, which has garnered praise locally, nationally, and internationally for its lyricism and instrumentation. Braun-Schulz cites writing as his means of becoming himself. As a person with albinism, Kaleb struggled as a child and teenager to find identity, identity which he discovered through the arts.