Artifice

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 and sometimes it’s pretty annoying when you aren’t in the mood.”

Julie was an art major at the University of Utah but was extremely at odds with the department in the 1970’s. So she switched to Art History and gobbled that up. Life happened and when she was one year short of completing her degree, she had to drop out. She was very fortunate to have some excellent private teachers: Robert Rummel and Elaine Bradshaw.

“My painting career came to a halt at one point because I got very discouraged with marketing my art in Utah. I needed to go out of state but felt my family was too important.” So there was a lull for a while.

Julie has reinvented her art several times. She discovered mosaics made with broken china and glass. Then there was a flurry of work in the shape of hearts and names after famous literary heroines. “I had to throw almost all of the supplies away as I wasn’t painting any more. I didn’t want to lose my painting my painting talent!”

In 2016, Julie was diagnosed with ovarian cancer and couldn’t sit up to an easel to paint. So she started doing watercolors – a medium she didn’t like – as she could sit at a table. It started with Easter cards for her grandchildren. She has done about 150 cards at this point and has had a successful card business.

Family is most important to her. She has a wonderful husband, 5 talented kids, and 10 gorgeous grandchildren. “We love living in Murray! Murray City has been very good to me. I’ve had many employees that are my customers and top of the list is former Mayor Dan Snarr!”

You can check out more of Julie’s work at laughinghorseart.blogspot.com

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.

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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, Ms. Glenn was the recipient of the Individual Arts Excellence Award in Choreography presented by the Ohio Arts Council and the Gravity’s Ripple III Choreographic Residency Award sponsored by the Dublin Arts Council and OhioDance. She was also the recipient of three Greater Columbus Arts Councils Artists Grants and a dance educator with Balletmet.

As a teacher, Keely enjoys working with diverse populations and has taught in inner city public schools, summer dance intensives across the nation, and universities.

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As an independent movement designer she plays with the idea of the absurd and the familiar to create accessible works for the child and the adult. She is a technical fusionist blending urban arts, classical stylization, and athleticism into her choreography. Her passion for the arts and her family is currently leading her to explore new ways of using technology and the Internet to make, perform, and teach dance.

https://www.keelysong.com/

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 in Salt Lake City, Stewart says his mother is his inspiration. A classically trained pianist herself, she wanted to share her love of music with her children. Sadly, she passed away from breast cancer when he was just 13. Stewart says this was a poignant moment in his life and he realized the gift she had given to him. He said, “As a teenager I missed her and I would sit at the piano and play and think about her.” His father encouraged him to continue to pursuing his talent.

After graduating from high school, Stewart was awarded a full-ride scholarship in music to the University of Utah. He perfected his piano skills as he studied, played and taught piano lessons. He especially enjoyed teaching students with an affinity for composition and song writing. Although Stewart eventually left the music department and pursued a career in computers, he never lost his desire to compose and play the instrument he loves. Today, he does music full time and his passion has become something his wife, Cindy, and their three children cherish when spending time together..

Ryan’s greatest ambition is to combine his love of music, computers, and traveling to create compositions for fans around the world. He has a gift for orchestrating just about anything, beginning with a concerto he wrote at the age of 17. He has composed and arranged music for film documentaries, Cellist Stephen S. Nelson (ThePianoGuys), Paul Cardall, Facebook, several dance studios, and several others.

http://ryanstewartmusic.com/

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 ensemble dedicated to promoting contemporary classical music. Khemia actively commissions new works and mentors young performers and composers. Performance highlights include National Sawdust, the Mizzou International Composers Festival, Strange Beautiful Music X Festival, New Music Gathering, and the MoxSonic Experimental Sonic Arts Festival, among several university residences.

As a soloist, Chelsea has performed with the University of Michigan Symphony Band, Greater Hartford Youth Wind Ensemble, and the Hartt Contemporary Players. She placed second in the 2016 Black Swamp Solo Percussion Competition. Chelsea’s performance of Andy Akiho’s Stop Speaking for solo snare drum accompanied by a stop-motion animated film by visual artist Alisa Yang won “Best Music Video” at the 2018 Ann Arbor Film Festival.

Notable freelance appearances include the White Christmas National Tour (Paducah, KY), Ballet West Orchestra (Salt Lake City, UT), Section Percussionist with Paducah Symphony Orchestra (2017-20), steelworks steelband (2014-present), AEPEX Contemporary Performance (Detroit, MI), Rochester Symphony (MI), New Britain Symphony (CT), Nutmeg Symphony (CT), Adrian Symphony (MI), and the Artful Living Musical Theater Company (CT).

A passionate educator, Chelsea is Instructor of Music at Utah Valley University. In 2021, Chelsea’s Level Up! 15 Sequential Duets for the Developing Snare Drummer was released by Tapspace. Previously, she has held positions as a Lecturer of Music at the University of Tennessee at Martin, Instrumental Music Teacher in the Ann Arbor Public Schools, and Director of the University of Michigan’s Impact Youth Percussion Ensemble. Chelsea has also served on the faculty of summer programs including Littlestone Summer Music Festival (TN), Music for the Sake of Music (WI), and the Hartt Community Division (CT), in addition to 12 years of private teaching.

Chelsea received her MM in Percussion Performance and Chamber Music from the University of Michigan and her BM in Percussion Performance and Music Education from the Hartt School, University of Hartford.

https://www.chelseatinslerjones.com/

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 active in the Latin music scene. She is a featured soloist with Sol y Luna along with Rebecca Mauleon and Michael Spiro. She is active in the improvised music scene, having performed with Cecil Taylor and his orchestra at the San Francisco Jazz Festival and a composition by John Cage with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. She currently performs with Red Rock Rondo (who won 2 Emmy awards in 2010), blue haiku, the The Emily Merrell Band, Diamond Empire Band, The Phillip Kuehn Orchestra, the Alan Michael band and the Salt Lake Symphony. Flavia holds a BA in Music from San Francisco State University and a Masters in Social Work from the University of Utah.

Sol y Luna

https://open.spotify.com/album/6MWxZlPNP07kgRKgq41dX4

Te Azul at Cathedral of the Madeleine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtULfy5vRdk

heat beneath the sand

blue haiku

https://open.spotify.com/artist/4X4ROGwvfXFvA8j6ZpHO18

Zion Canyon Song Cycle

Red Rock Rondo

https://open.spotify.com/album/4LKexcpBE8Qr9bjKrKtIH0

A Secret Gift

Red Rock Rondo

https://open.spotify.com/album/0KhcnT2DkCB4Tl0Zzt1vqa

Trio Tri-National

Marilyn Lerner, Flavia Cervino-Wood, Harold Carr

https://haroldcarr.bandcamp.com/album/trio-tri-national-marilyn-lerner-flavia-cervino-wood-harold-carr

Nomad

J.A. Deane

https://open.spotify.com/album/7xX4OfuSfA3RgMgTbsMK3y

Strata

Te Azul

https://haroldcarr.bandcamp.com/album/strata

Moon River

Geoffrey Miller, Flavia Cervino-Wood, Harold Carr

https://haroldcarr.bandcamp.com/album/moon-river

Emily Merrel Group Live at the 2013 Utah Arts Festival

https://haroldcarr.bandcamp.com/album/emily-merrell-group-live-at-the-2013-utah-arts-festival

Harold Carr and Flavia Cervino-Wood live at City Art January 15, 2014

https://haroldcarr.bandcamp.com/album/harold-carr-and-flavia-cervino-wood-live-at-city-art-january-15-2014

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 when he was 17 years old, and he's been heavily involved in the steel industry ever since. He has been teaching classes at the University of Utah Continuing Education program for several years.

As a member of the Society for Creative Anachronism, Matt can often be seen towering over people on the battle field, wearing 80 pounds of armor and swinging a two-handed great sword. Matt is the master of the local SCA blacksmiths guild and quite a few re-enactors get their first experience with medieval blacksmithing from Matt.

Matt is happily married to his high school sweetheart and is the proud father of 4 children.

http://wasatchforge.com/

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 books, doodling dragons in her notes, collecting figures and pretending with her friends in the front yard. She learned to play music on an old trombone that her father had in a bumper sticker-encrusted case and still plays in the local city band. She also discovered that she loved Japanese animation and culture and that has been a large influence in her artistic endeavors. In college she was introduced by a friend to cosplay and conventions. Cosplay is one of her favorite forms of expression as it can touch on every medium, including acting, sewing, 3D printing, sculpting, electronics, painting, puppetry and everything in between. She has won several awards at local conventions and always has something new to debut to keep it fresh!

Savannah is a married, enthusiastic mom that feels she is just as much a kid as her two young boys. When they are both in school full time in the upcoming year, she plans on launching a clothing brand, Banoonios Studios, and Vanna V., an accessories brand where she can share some of her colorful visions with the world. Both brands are based on nicknames given to her by her pro musician, thrill-seeking father and go-getter, animal-loving mother. Savannah loves encouraging artists of all types and feels that an artist should always make art for themselves first and foremost.

IG: @sailorcrafty26