Violet Vonder Haar is collaborating with artist Jenny McGee, and their artistic journey will be captured by filmmaker Tony Ousley! Find out more about this team here: https://schoolofservice.org/te...

Violet Vonder Haar is a songwriter, artist, activist, teacher, and leader from mid-Missouri. She is the founder of the all-female rock orchestra, Jane Doe Revue, which has helped to raise over $30,000 for women’s healthcare and various organizations in Missouri. Through her work with JDR and her full-time band, Violet and the Undercurrents, she has helped to elevate women’s voices.

Violet has been a music educator for over 10 years, and in 2019, she was nominated for the Missourian Progress in the Arts award. In 2017, she was the recipient of the Sarah Dwyer Special Appreciation Award by Women in the Arts at the National Women’s Music Festival. In 2022, Violet and her partner, Phylshawn Johnson, received the Missourian Progress Awards in the Arts. Currently, Violet is the programs director at Compass Inc., the Director of Music Ministry at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Columbia, and a private music teacher at Violet’s Songbird Studio.