Artifice

Michael Wysong Crigger studied Fashion Design at the University of North Texas, earning his Bachelor of Fine Arts in May, 2011. He began pursuing his Master of Fine Arts in Fashion Design at UNT. During his undergraduate career, Michael studied Haute Couture sewing techniques in Paris, France. He has been recognized in several design competitions, and finds his passion in tailoring and constructio...

At the helm of our kitchen is Chef José Meza Arróyave, one of Mexico’s finest. Meza has spent his career at culinary meccas including Rene Redzepi’s NOMA in Copenhagen, Denmark, and Enrique Olvera’s Pujol, in Mexico City. Hailing from Mexico City himself, Meza most recently led the kitchen at the famed Restaurant Carolina, at the St. Regis Punta Mita Resort, as well as the Nizuc Resort & Spa, name...

Praised for the “breathtaking singing quality of his sound” by jazz icon John McNeil and as a “musician of the highest order” by renowned orchestral trumpeter Charles Daval, Ryan Nielsen’s lyricism and versatility are rare. His artistry grows out of a love of groove, spirit, and beautiful melody. He began performing professionally at 17, and has since been a guest artist at concerts and festivals...

Rebecca Jensen loves telling stories and drawing pictures, so becoming an illustrator made perfect sense. She currently lives and works in Utah, creating art for children’s books, magazines, posters, cards, and anything else people will let her draw on.

Artistic Director of Salt Lake City’s Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company since 2013, Daniel Charon has been active as a choreographer, teacher, and performer for over twenty-five years. While based in New York City, Daniel maintained a project-based company and danced with Doug Varone and Dancers and the Limón Dance Company. Additionally, he performed with Doug Elkins and Friends, the Metropolitan Opera...

Mindy has been performing since the age of eight. Her original goal in life was to be the world’s first “singing Heart Surgeon”. Unfortunately, medical school didn’t pan out; so, she decided to heal the world through music and as a result, she has been studying different vocal techniques, voice science, and vocal health her entire life. Mindy has studied with many nationally and internationally re...

Jessica Day George is the New York Times bestselling author of the Tuesdays at the Castle series, the Twelve Dancing Princesses series, and the Dragon Slippers trilogy. Originally from Idaho, she studied at Brigham Young University where she earned a BA in Humanities/Comparative Literature, and worked as a librarian and bookseller before turning to writing full-time. She now lives in Salt Lake Cit...

Chef Nick’s Bio My mother comes from a strong Italian family raised in New Orleans. Family life was all about food and southern hospitality. My father was obsessed with French culinary tradition and always wanted to be a chef. He graduated from Institut Paul Bocuse in Lyon, France in 2004. I wasn’t exposed to this obsessive side of my father until shortly before he passed away. I became intertwine...

Heidi M. Gress first discovered her passion for Creative Entrepreneurship while studying European Cinema at the University of London. After she completed her film education with a BFA from the prestigious Chapman University in Southern California, she continued in the creative industry by working as a commercial producer, fashion film and documentary director and still photographer in Los Angeles....

Salt Lake City-based artist Stacy Phillips shifts effortlessly between sculpture and painting. In part, this is because her studios for each discipline lie under one roof. In part, it is because she has mastered the ability to adapt as the result of moving 49 times in her life. (Her family relocated frequently while her father worked for Campbell Soup Company.) A change-filled life also helps expl...

As a child, sports were Monica's main focus, but she auditioned for her first musical as a young teen, and was quickly hooked--switching focus to acting, singing, dancing, and modeling. She attended Brigham Young University (BYU) on a talent scholarship, majoring in Music Dance Theatre. In 2013, Monica started getting into film, and is best known for her role as Julie Flinders in Saturday's Warrio...

Adam has been making violins since age 14, due in part to the recommendation of his first violin teacher, Kelly Richardson. His violins have been played on and praised by Joshua Bell, Joseph Silverstein, and Igor Gruppman, as well as many young, talented soloists throughout Utah. Born in Murray, Utah, Adam grew up in a musical environment, beginning the violin at age 3. When he began studying to b...

Christine Baird did a career 180 when she moved from the corporate world to focus on podcasting, event production, social media strategy, and influencer branding. She developed Lewis Howes’ brand, the School of Greatness, for four years, during which time the podcast downloads increased from 1 million to over 80 million. She now helps influencers launch and strategize their shows. She also produce...

LULU FALL is a singer, award-winning songwriter and actor currently based in New York. Lulu, a formally trained jazz vocalist with a musical theatre background, is one complete and unexpected package. As a product of Senegalese and Cameroonian parentage, her music reflects her global perspective by way of her American sensibilities. https://www.lulufall.com/ Because Lulu has a background in musica...

Clayton Vance is a practicing architect with his own small firm in the Park City Utah area. He received his masters of architecture from the university of Notre Dame where he studied traditional architecture and urbanism. His passion is creating beautiful and timeless spaces. He started the https://www.timelesshomes.org/ website and podcast where he hopes to take us all on a journey of discovery a...

"I grew up here in Utah and attended Culinary School at Utah Valley University where she learned all about the art and science of cooking. I loved every second of culinary school...almost! But I didn't learn any of the cake decorating or sugar flower work I do today in school. That came from years of trial and error, recipe testing and an obsession with flowers. I love a good challenge when it com...

Joel Long’s book Winged Insects won the White Pine Press Poetry Prize. Lessons in Disappearance (2012) and Knowing Time by Light (2010) were published by Blaine Creek Press. His chapbooks, Chopin’s Preludes and Saffron Beneath Every Frost were published from Elik Press. His poems and essays have appeared in Gettysburg Review, Sports Literate, Prairie Schooner, Bellingham Review, Rhino, Bitter Olea...

Becky Willard is a Warm Audio featured artist, a music producer, recording engineer, songwriter and vocalist. She began working with artists over 25 years ago as a mentor, vocal coach and songwriting coach. It was a natural transition from coach to producer as she guided singers searching for their sound and began recording them in her home studio. In 2010, Becky founded Vox Fox Studios and has be...

Celeste Chaney is a writer, filmmaker, and marketing consultant. Her first script, The Feed, is in development with Passage Pictures and was a finalist in the Tribeca Film Institute’s 2019 AT&T Untold Stories Competition, as well as the Alfred P. Sloan filmmaker fund. Her novel, In Absence of Fear, received Honorable Mention at Foreward’s 2015 Book of the Year Awards. She wrote, produced, and dire...

Davis Hong is the designer behind BYSHAO, a minimalist unisex fashion brand based in Salt Lake City, Utah. With over 8 years of experience, Davis’s distinct style has shown to stand out amongst crowds. The brand focuses on sustainable multi-seasonal jackets + tops. With an attention to quality, detail, and a new yet classic approach in design, the pieces are made to make you feel effortlessly powe...

Born in the "Charm City" of Baltimore,Dee-Dee has ben delighting audiences with her mixture of jazz standards, R&B, soul and funk for a quarter of a century. While making sweet sounds Dee-Dee also discovered the acting bug and has performed in countless regional theater productions and discovered her love of jazz while performing to sold out shows in the lead role in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Gr...

Alternative classical composer Phillip Bimstein lives in Salt Lake City and Springdale, Utah, where he served two terms as mayor. A recipient of grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Meet The Composer, American Composers Forum, Austria’s Prix Ars Electronica and an Emmy Award from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, Bimstein’s music has been performed at Carne...

Melanie Shore’s dynamic musical fluency on the piano has established her as an accomplished performer, sought-after studio musician, and award-winning composer and arranger. Over her career, she has performed with an array of artists, including Chuck Berry, Il Divo, Lea Salonga, David Archuleta, Debby Boone, The Osmonds 2nd Generation, Restless Heart, and Teddy Gentry from the Grammy Award-winning...

Artist’s Statement Life presents a child with a choice on Saturday mornings—cartoons or cooking shows? I always opted for the second. Though my passion for food didn’t turn into a career, it is still an indispensable part of my life. When my love for ceramics began, so too was born a dream of marrying it with the culinary arts. I had a vision of customizing dinnerware for chefs. Growing up in Salt...

Camille Washington is the co-director of Good Company Theatre, and the Marketing and Box Office Manager for Onstage Ogden. Good Company Theatre is the only black-owned and administrated theatre in Utah. Before her current posts, she was Curatorial Fellow for Diversity in the Arts at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and also held positions at Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive...