Lead Artist
MARCUS YOUNG was born in Hong Kong and grew up in Iowa. He graduated from Carleton College in music and the University of Minnesota in theater. He makes conceptual and behavioral art which so far has included slow-walking and smiling, wishing and flying kites, drawing very long lines, whispering, dancing in public, writing fortunes for fortune cookies, and dressing up as a museum gallery guard. Marcus believes making good art is making good life. He has been Saint Paul’s Artist-in-Residence since 2006.

  2008 Poets
Eleanor Arnason Sasha Aslanian Tirows Byrd Naomi Cohn
Caley J. Conney Esmé Evans Sean Fleming Georgia Greeley
Margaret Hasse Kate Lynn Hibbard Zoë Jameson Patricia Kirkpatrick
Eileen O’Toole Anne Piper Anna Renken Ryan Ross
Madeline Schuster Carlee Tressel Diego Vázquez, Jr. Eyang Wu

  2009 Poets

Anna Everett Beek Carol Connolly Mary Davini Pam Haas
Marianne McNamara Kurt Schultz