Artifice

A breakdown of the writing, meaning, and hidden treasures in the ninth track of my new album "The Hallowed Wide" out on all streaming platforms now! The final piece in the Make It Hallowed portion of our journey is a surrender, just like its counterparts in the previous two chapters (Quicksand and Split). This time, we’re finally ready to surrender the last inkling that we can ever have any contro...

A Queen of many crowns or hats...Wynter first and foremost is a Mother to their handsome baby boy Amias!! She has been a Poet, and published author since the age of eight. Wynter made her debut in the 2018-19 Salt Lake City Slam Poetry Season and made the team in the same year to tour with them. She creates poems about justice, healing, love, self love, queerness, and the power to overcome. Wynter...

Twelve years ago I graduated from the prestigious film program at Brigham Young University and began my career in filmmaking. At different times over the years I’ve had unique love affairs with each aspect of the filmmaking process—I’ve been a DP, a producer, an editor—I’ve played various roles in ideating and executing fiction narratives; and I’ve traveled to many countries as a documentarian. Al...

A breakdown of the writing, meaning, and hidden treasures in the eighth track of my new album "The Hallowed Wide" out on all streaming platforms now! Bleed in Color is about so many things. It’s a grappling with one’s own moral compass—nurturing that little flicker of light after society/religion have done their best to snuff it out. It’s a grief for the time and energy we waste begging loved ones...

Daxon Levine Dax Levine loves epic fantasy, but he didn’t expect to become a full-time professional Dungeon Master entertaining clients from all over the world. He started as a lowly theater kid and improv performer who leveled up by earning his Bachelor of Science in Psychology and his Master of Business Administration. In early 2020, he founded Dungeon Master Direct to professionally host online...

A breakdown of the writing, meaning, and hidden treasures in the seventh track of my new album "The Hallowed Wide" out on all streaming platforms now! Sweet Dream is track #7 (the halfway point) in my fantasy concept record The Hallowed Wide. I wanted this to feel like a turning point in the story. Like a weird epiphany. The dream is so colorful and breathtaking, and suddenly we realize the world...

Shiloh Nyce is an Indigenous female screenwriter and actor from the Haisla Nation on the Northwest Coast of Canada. Her First Nations name is Mah-gwees, meaning "snag on the beach". The Pacific Ocean and forest were her childhood playgrounds which has had significant inspirational influence on her artistry. She attended MacEwan University in Edmonton, Canada, where she received her Theatre Perform...

Michael Feldman, a medicinal chemist by training, after setting up and running the lab for the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta, came to Utah in 2000 to help set up drug testing for the 2002 SLC Olympic Winter Games and to become General Manager of Northwest Toxicology Laboratories. After running and selling 2 biotech companies, in 2011, he and his family decided it was time to do something co...

A breakdown of the writing, meaning, and hidden treasures in the sixth track of my new album "The Hallowed Wide" out on all streaming platforms now! Split is a song about an even deeper kind of surrender. At the beginning of the story, we surrendered a bit of comfort for the promise of a something greater…but here we reckon with the heavy grief of change and reinvention. This is the empty feeling...

Paul Cartwright Paul is a professional actor with more than twenty years of experience on stage, screen, and behind a microphone. He studied at the Royal Conservatoire in England to get his MFA in Acting—working with some of the best voice coaches of the Royal Shakespeare Company before moving to Los Angeles where he’s worked with Disney, Nintendo, Toyota, Visa, Pepsi, Lay’s, Fortnite and more. Pa...

Pedro Flores is an Actor, Playwright, and Director currently based out of Utah. He has been in works for several established Utah theatres including Good Company Theatre, Plan-B Theatre Company, and Salt Lake Acting Company. He is currently performing as Alli in 'Alli and #3' for Plan-B's Ninth Annual Free Elementary School Tour and will also be performing for their upcoming production of "Aftersh...

My name is Malory Christensen. I was born in Montana, but raised in Salt Lake City, Utah. I graduated from Westminster College with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree: with an emphasis in Ceramics, and a Minor in Psychology. Upon my completion at Westminster, I moved to Seattle, Washington to pursue a graduate degree in Marriage and Family Therapy, with a specialization in Art Therapy. Having earned m...

A breakdown of the writing, meaning, and hidden treasures in the fifth track of my new album "The Hallowed Wide" out on all streaming platforms now! A song for the fiercest kind of love...

Zaza Historia VanDyke is a poc, trans femme, parent, performer, song writer and artist from Ogden Utah. You can find zaza anywhere she can be loud and proud with an instrument in hand, either playing upright bass for “The BackYard Revival” or playing guitar and singing her own original music. She’s the girl at every campfire and party, singing and playing acoustic guitar, In fact, you’ll be hard p...

It’s not a surprise that Julie Jacobsen became a fine artist. All of the women in her family have been artists in one way or another. Her paternal grandmother sold paintings in Laguna Beach. Her mother and sisters have all been fine art painters. “We call it the family disease and now my daughter has it too!” Grace just got her Masters in Fine Art. “We feel a constant pull to create in some way an...

Ted Slaymaker, tattoo artist and body modification specialist since 2008. Owner of Arcade Tattoo LLC. Available for private, and commercial illustrations and murals. @tedslaymaker on Instagram.

A breakdown of the writing, meaning, and hidden treasures in the fourth track of my new album "The Hallowed Wide" out on all streaming platforms now! A song for all your secret crushes...

Ryan Stewart’s passion is music. He has come a long way from the child who was expected to practice the piano before playing with friends, or the teenager who spent his lunch hour playing the piano on the stage at his local high school. Stewart has now fulfilled a fourth album release “Memories – Best of Solo Piano”, a celebration of 15 original solo piano works from his first three albums. Raised...

Keely Song Glenn is an Assistant Professor of Dance at Brigham Young University and a Certified Laban Movement Analyst. She received her MFA in dance from The University of Iowa and was awarded the prestigious Dean’s Graduate Fellowship. Previously, she graduated from Interlochen Arts Academy and after high school received her B.A. in dance education from Brigham Young University. While in Ohio, M...

A breakdown of the writing, meaning, and hidden treasures in the third track of my new album "The Hallowed Wide" out on all streaming platforms now! The perfect addition to your Valentine's playlist...

Chelsea Tinsler Jones is an avid percussionist, arts administrator, and educator based in Utah County. She has a unique skill set having studied solo, orchestral, and contemporary percussion in addition to musical styles from West Africa, the Caribbean, Brazil, and the Middle East. Chelsea is percussionist and Director of Operations for Khemia Ensemble, an internationally performing mixed-chamber...

Flavia Cerviño-Wood studied classical violin at the Conservatory of Music in Santiago and at the Universidad Católica de Chile. Early in her career she moved to Brazil to join the band Grupo Agua, which toured South America and performed and recorded with Milton Nascimento. Her first work in the United States was with the Brockport Symphony in New York before moving to San Francisco where she was...

When you close your eyes and picture a blacksmith, you're probably already seeing Matt. He's a bear of a blacksmith who makes our biggest anvil look small. Matt's a sharer. He takes the forge on the road for demonstrations at festivals, conferences, even corporate events. He usually has a handful of apprentices. Matt apprenticed at a traditional blacksmith shop at This Is The Place Heritage Park w...

Savannah "Sailor Crafty" Nicholes Savannah has always embraced her eccentric side in hopes that other eccentrics would have someone to feel comfortable around. A daydreamer, INFJ and "serial hobbyist", she is constantly switching mediums to help her bring intangible dreams into tangible reality. Known as the Dinosaur Girl in elementary school, she could be found writing poetry, reading fantasy boo...

The compositions of ANDREW MAXFIELD—hailed as “rhythmically vital … superbly judged … [and] tender” by Fanfare Magazine—have been performed throughout the U.S. and Europe. A recent winner of the King’s Singer’s New Music Prize (Jury Special Commendation), Andrew has been a Composer Fellow of the National Collegiate Choral Organization and Composer-in-Residence for Southern Virginia University and...