Travis "Bucky" Baldwin was raised in Berkeley CA, but now resides in New York City. His writing focuses on the terrors of modern miscommunication and the incipient need for new ways of socializing and living. He spends most of his days organizing free and radical events with various activist groups in the city. During his time at the McCanna House he plans to write a ninety minute play about a struggling radical theater troupe.

John Haley is a documentary filmmaker, artist, and educator born and raised in Minnesota and currently living and working in Alabama. His stories reflect fissures and seams in the American social fabric, juxtaposing personal narratives against institutional structures through observational cinematography, personal testimonies, symbolic imagery, and vivid, recurring soundscapes. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Creative Media at the University of Alabama. During his time as an artist-in-residence at McCanna House, he will be working on a documentary project exploring conceptions of American identity along the route of Amtrak's Empire Builder train line. 

Amanda Smith is a painter who also works with drawing, collage, and quilting techniques to explore human experiences and interpretations in landscape. While in residence at the McCanna House, Amanda plans to start a body of large-scale paintings and quilt compositions that create a kind of ‘backyard mythology.’ These works will feature imagery from familiar, domestic outdoor spaces that have taken on a poetic or portentous tone in an era of pandemic, climate disaster, and political upheaval. Smith earned an MFA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and a BA from the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, WA. She is an Assistant Professor of Drawing and Painting at Missouri State University.

Douglas Cawley was born and raised in a tiny New England town. He has an BA in Art from Colby College. In 1984 he moved to Boston, because " my parents told me that cities were evil places, and I wasn’t going to just take their word on that." Cawley stumbled into being trained as a custom picture framer in Cambridge. He helped start a noise/grunge band while living in Boston. The band appeared on compilations with Nirvana and he became friends with lots of great musicians who would go on to have larger-than-life careers, allowing him to tour and see the country for the first time. In 1990, Crawley moved to San Francisco and met his wife three years later and started a band that took them to Europe for the first time. He continued to tour in the states and overseas until 2022. Crawley has been working on a book chronicling a lot of these gigs, and the accompanying good/bad experiences—mostly good.

Onesti Krieger is from Williston, North Dakota. She went to college for visual arts and works in various mediums. She loves painting oil and acrylic abstracts and is venturing into a more impressionistic style. Painting gives a precious opportunity to express her life moments and perceptions. While staying at the McCanna House, she plans on completing the final pieces for her next exhibit, “The 16 X 20 Show” at the Long X Arts Foundation in Watford City, ND starting at the end of November.



Jay Hopkins-Entzel, a farm girl from Havana, ND, received her BFA at Minnesota State University of Moorhead in Moorhead, MN and MFA in Painting from Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO. Jay is currently the Curatorial Assistant of Exhibitions at the Dacotah Prairie Museum and an adjunct Instructor of Art at Northern State University in Aberdeen, SD. She’s also the Content Editor for Greater Thought Design + Marketing in Minneapolis, MN. Jay’s artworks have been published in Studio Visit magazines and featured at several museums and galleries, including Fort Collins Contemporary Museum in Colorado, A. Jain Marunouchi Gallery in New York, and The Rourke Art Museum and Gallery in Minnesota. Nature is Jay’s playground for capturing fragmented experiences of time and place through personal abstract narratives with the use of symbols, colors, and lines. During her Artist-in-residence at the ND Museum of Art’s McCanna House, she plans on developing a new floral garden series.

Jennifer N. Parker is an artist from Tolna, North Dakota. After receiving her Associate's Degree in Commercial Art from the Minnesota State Community and Technical College, she moved to Arizona and experienced every facet of graphic design, from working at sign shops to designing advertisements for newspapers. While in Arizona, Jennifer pursued the more traditional forms of art; she developed an affinity for surrealism, and delved into portraiture and Impressionistic landscapes. After moving back to North Dakota, Jennifer began to coordinate various art festivals, and organized a number of art shows with the Nelson County Arts Council. She will be seeking time at the McCanna House to rejuvenate her art and refine her style in landscapes and portraiture.

Nora Murphy is an author, mother, walker, and fifth-generation Irish-American with maternal roots in the Red River Valley. She has published six books, primarily non-fiction. Her most recent book is White Birch, Red Hawthorn (University of Minnesota Press), which explores healing pathways for European settlers and their descendents who contributed, sometimes unknowingly, to the genocide of Native peoples. She is currently working on her first novel, The Lacemaker's Shawl. This novel follows the life of an orphaned girl from the hills of Ireland into her old age as a nun teaching lace to boarders at a convent school in Fargo. Murphy is looking forward to soaking in the prairie while she revises the novel during residency at McCanna House. 

Jodi Reeb has been a full-time working artist and teacher in Minneapolis for over 27 years. She has taught printmaking, acrylic and encaustic painting, as well as book arts classes and workshops at colleges and art centers regionally and internationally. Jodi received a BFA degree in Fine Arts from the Minneapolis College of Art & Design, MCAD, where she instructed printmaking for over 9 years. Her artwork has been shown nationally receiving numerous public art awards and is in many private and corporate collections. She is the recipient of the Minnesota State Arts Board Grant in 2021 and 2018. She received a Hinge Arts Residency in 2020 through the Springboard for the Arts where she took photos that were transformed into paintings. She is a CORE teaching Artist for R&F Handmade Encaustic Paints, Ambassador artist for Ampersand Art and Silverbrush Ltd. She teaches GOLDEN acrylic and encaustic painting workshops in her studio at Traffic Zone Center for Visual Art where she has been a co-op member for 18 years in North Loop area of Minneapolis.