(She/They)
Conie Borchardt is a Mixed Asian Public Heart Artist, a listener and vibration holding space for truth, pain, and delight while inviting creative expression in sound, movement, and color within themselves and in others.
With skills of being a spiritual companion, community song and circle dance leader, ritual co-creator, vocal coach, and self-taught visual artist and interests in embodied, transformative change in individuals and communities, Conie weaves these together to create new culture.  A couple of ways they are doing this is developing “Freeing Refrains,” an auto-biographical song circle, to foster conversation around what binds and liberates us, and “Biracial & Rural,” an arts-centered community of care and storytelling space for folks who connect with that experience, currently or in the past.
Born to new and old immigrant farmers from Asia and Europe before the internet on the rural plains of Mn’sota, land first tended by the Dakota peoples, Conie currently they live near B’dote, the confluence of the Mn’sota and Mississippi Rivers, in the settler place known as St. Paul, MN. 

Photo credit: Mike Levad of Twin Circh Studios