Artifice

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...

Brandon Ray Olive, storyteller, originally hails from Shreveport, Louisiana. He credits his journey to his child-like curiosity, to his family's loving influence, and his passionate belief in the human potential. All of which has contributed to building his life in accordance... Brandon Ray Olive (now a loving husband to 1 and proud father to 3) is a prolific TV/Film actor, with recent appearances...

Olivia Custodio has her BFA in Vocal Performance from Carnegie Mellon University and her Masters in Music from the University of Utah. As a performer, she has appeared in numerous operas, musicals, and plays, and studied improv comedy at The Second City in Chicago. She has begun to dabble in the world of being a playwright and her first short play, Driver’s License, Please, premiered at Plan-B The...

Raised outside of Dallas, Jed was raised on music, singing in the church choir and taking mandatory piano lessons until his mom let him quit. To her surprise, he continued to play piano but replaced classical pieces with classics such as Queen, the Beatles, Billy Joel, etc. After graduating from BYU with a degree in Commercial Music, Jed worked at a number of studios in Utah and spent time in New...

Jen Palmer is a commercial photographer based in Salt Lake City, Utah. She specializes in fashion, beauty, and product photography. Her favorite part of being a photographer is creating images that never existed before that moment and working with creative teams. When she’s not taking pictures, Jen loves to spend time with her family, friends, and especially her dog, Bucky. She also loves to trave...

Johnny Worthen is an award-winning, best-selling author of books and stories. A Utah Writer of the Year. Trained in modern literary criticism and cultural studies, he writes upmarket multi-genre fiction, symbolized by his love of tie-dye and good words. “I write what I like to read,” he says. “This guarantees me at least one fan.” Johnny is best known (so far) for his award winning, nationally acc...

Sarah Keele is the illustrator behind all of the Dark City Series board games by Façade Games. They launched their first Kickstarter, a social deception party game in a faux book box called, Salem 1692, back in April of 2015, just in time for Sarah’s graduation from Brigham Young University with a BFA in illustration. Riding the wave of the boom in the tabletop gaming industry, they exceeded their...

Joseph Facer is a multi-instrumentalist, audio engineer, and producer from Provo, Utah. He developed a love for music early in life and has pursued his passion single-mindedly ever since. Joseph has toured internationally as well as across the United States with various groups and has performed with and recorded such artists as Gladys Knight, Toto, Lea Salonga, Leslie Odom Jr., Lexi Walker, and ma...

As a young girl, Aubrey loved being in the kitchen. Growing up in the Pacific Northwest (Seattle), she would go crabbing during the summers. These experiences instilled an appreciation and love of fresh seafood. She learned the art of catching, cleaning and cooking - sea-to-table was very real. Driven by passion, Aubrey graduated from the Culinary Arts Institute at UVU. Here she cultivated her ski...

Lance Lowry, a proud Ally and LGBTI advocate, serves as the Executive Director of the LOVELOUD Foundation. He is also featured in the HBO Documentary BELIEVER alongside Dan Reynolds for his work as the organizer of the inaugural LOVELOUD Festival.

After over 10 years in the comedy business, comedian/impressionist Marcus continues to be one the most diverse talents in the industry. From performing stand-up all over the country, writing a developing a musical impression show with his friend and fellow comedian Guy Seidel, hosting and producing his own paranormal-themed web series, “Ghost Hopping”, to being part of 2 successful podcasts, Dirtp...

Yolanda Stange is an actor/producer/casting director who has appeared in over a 100 industrial film, 50 feature films, 15 television shows and 3 national commercials. She has worked along side some of Hollywoods biggest stars like Zac Efron, Danny Glover, Diane Keaton, Elizabeth Moss and many more. In 2015 she opened her own production company Radical Hospitality and casting agency, Stange Casting...