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Emily Young is an artist proficient in the medium of embracing the here and now. Her gifts span from guiding mothers through birthing realms to examining consciousness and healing through plant medicine. Twenty years ago the black and white may have talked about her going to court reporting school for all the wrong reasons or eating pancakes and playing the piano high in her Mormon church. Ten yea...

A breakdown of the writing, meaning, and hidden treasures in the twelfth track of my new album "The Hallowed Wide" out on all streaming platforms now!

I am an Artist based in Salt Lake City, Utah. I was born and raised in Texas and moved to Utah in 2014. I spent Two years (2015-2017) serving a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Mongolia. My Passion has always lied within visual art. These days I’ve been painting film sets for an upcoming Apple TV show set to launch later in 2023. My personal work explores the relation...

Katharine Coles was born and raised in Salt Lake City. After four years at school in Seattle and two in Houston, and a year in Washington, D.C. as Writer-in-Residence at St. Albans School, she moved back to Salt Lake to pursue her PhD at the University of Utah. She taught for several years at Westminster College, then returned to the University of Utah, where she is now a Distinguished Professor i...

Kathak is one of the eight major forms of Indian classical dance. The origin of Kathak is traditionally attributed to the traveling bards in the of ancient northern India known as Kathakars or storytellers. The term Kathak is derived from the Vedic Sanskrit word Katha which means "story", and Kathakar which means "the one who tells a story". Wandering Kathakars communicated stories from the great...

A breakdown of the writing, meaning, and hidden treasures in the eleventh track of my new album "The Hallowed Wide" out on all streaming platforms now!

Corvus Cazier I was born in Boise. The youngest of 4 kids. Raised there until i was 11 and we moved to Kaysville Utah. I have two older brothers and one sister who passed away in 2020. As a young child we were not allowed to watch much television but our parents gave us plenty of books. My brother Ryan and I challenged each other although we fought endlessly we loved making things with our hands f...

At the age of 19, the perfect acting job came along. It was a very strenuous audition process. After months of searching the producers of Trolls 2 could not pass up on Steve’s talents. No seriously, they could not pass him up. They tried....they really tried but well they needed someone with minimal acting abilities and who was under four feet tall. Steve was offered the non-credited position to p...

Kat is a self-taught florist who cherishes finding magic in the mundane. Her floral business, Ritual in Bloom, centers rituals and intentionality in floral design. Each offering is meant to encourage clients to create/reconnect with rituals and ancestral knowledge by deepening their relationships with flowers. By drawing on her heritage, Kat creates experiences that connect people to the subtle wi...

Robert Baldwin is Director of Orchestras and Professor of Conducting at the University of Utah, and Music Director and Conductor for the Salt Lake Symphony. He is also the founding conductor for Sinfonia Salt Lake, a professional chamber orchestra that made its critically acclaimed debut in 2016. In 2019, he was appointed to an adjunct position at the Wuhan University Center for the Arts in Wuhan,...

Doug Wagner is a comic book writer best known for his dark comedy, horror work on Image Comics’ VINYL and PLASTIC. He’s also recently finished running three successful Kickstarter campaigns for THOMAS RIVER with Brian Stelfreeze, YUMI: SPY FATALE, BADDIE ROYALE with Hoyt Silva, and NARCO with Daniel Hillyard. Some of his other works include BATMAN: ARKHAM ORIGINS, LEGENDS OF THE DARK KNIGHT, WORLD...

A breakdown of the writing, meaning, and hidden treasures in the tenth track of my new album "The Hallowed Wide" out on all streaming platforms now! WE ARE BOUNDLESS!!!! In all sincerity, this is the vision I have of my fellow humans. Happy to be part of the global human fam with y'all. 🤗🐳🌺⛵️

born and raised in orange county, alifornia, cat palmer developed her insatiable romance with photography at 15 years old, against the backdrop of los angeles… a place teeming with racial divides, cultural diversity, and economic inequality. her world view further evolved as she immersed herself in the streets of mexico, developing a new obsession that would plague her art, forever… human empowerm...

As a self-taught artist and descendant of Mexican migrant workers, Alba’s large scale paintings and drawings evoke an emotional response while still maintaining relevant commentary on contemporary politics and society. Alba is the recipient of the 2020 Utah Visual Arts Fellowship from the Utah Division or Arts and Museums and has exhibited work throughout the Pacific Northwest and Salt Lake City,...

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...