Artifice

Andrew Rice has always called the Rocky Mountain West region his home. Born in Aspen, CO, he received his BFA in printmaking from the University of Colorado in Boulder and his MFA in Salt Lake City, UT at the University of Utah, where he currently teaches printmaking.

Artist Statement:

Space is an elemental, yet often overlooked pillar of our existence. There is a duality to space. It has the ability to both liberate us, as well as enclose us. My own work investigates the psychological implications of the spaces that, on the one hand keep us alive, and on the other, prevent access from outside surroundings.

Stemming from the 19th century ideas behind the Sublime as an exploration into that which simultaneously excites and terrifies us, I continue to examine this tension between spaces dualities. East v West, Urban v Rural, Left v Right, etc… As technology outpaces humanity’s ability to comprehend it, these investigations become more and more acute.

I explore this conceptual and artistic nexus of space. I am interested in the contradiction between its limitations as well as its immensity, and that tension of the in-between. Within these spaces, I am drawn to their ability to be both a point of access as well as inaccessibility. Doorways and windows are our entryways in, but also how we keep things out. In my work, I face the viewer with the option of an entry or an exit. Are you invited in, or left out?

The pieces are built up with multiple layers of material, whether it be oil paint stick, screen print ink, or collaged elements. While you may not see the information underneath the outermost layer, the information underneath provides the platform for what will ultimately be visible. There is a history created in the pieces, just as there is a history in the spaces we call our own.

Born at the base of the beautiful Wasatch Mountains, Brian began exploring and sketching the world—as most children do—at a very early age. He continued to pursue not only his artistic path through traditional schooling, higher education, and endless hours of practice, but also his love of storytelling. Utilizing his natural illustrative and creative design sense, he began writing and illustrating his own books through his teens and on into adulthood.

Intrigued by the Science Fiction and Fantasy genres, many of Hailes’ projects reflect elements of the fantastic, but he also appreciates the beauty and elegance in fine art masterpieces by the likes of Bouguereau, Waterhouse, Alma-Tadema, and many others. He also feels a certain draw to the styles and ideals of the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood of the mid-nineteenth century.

Hailes studied illustration and graphic design at Utah State University where he received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, as well as the Academy of Art University in San Francisco.

Having received several awards for his art from across the country, including Winner of the L. Ron Hubbard Illustrators of the Future contest out of Hollywood, his artwork has also been featured in the 2017-2020 editions of Infected By Art.

While continually pursuing progress and improvement by way of technique and application in his own works, he also keeps busy with design and commission work for a diverse clientele, including book covers, magazine illustration, corporate design as well as private commissions.

Hailes currently lives in Salt Lake City with his wife and four boys, where he continues to write, paint and draw regularly.

His work can be see at the following links:

https://www.hailesart.com

https://www.drawitwithme.com

https://www.youtube.com/drawitwithme

Instagram: @drawitwithmeofficial

Facebook: drawitwithme

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A native of Fresno, California, Walter Haman started playing the bass in his public school. At age 13 he began playing the cello and has since performed throughout North America and Europe. Mr. Haman has played with the Chicago Symphony, the San Francisco Symphony, is a former member of the Honolulu Symphony, and has been a guest cellist for Pink Martini. In 2003 he joined the Utah Symphony and in 2008 was appointed Principal Cellist of the Grant Park Orchestra in Chicago, where he spends ten weeks each summer. Mr. Haman is also a member of the Montage Music Society in Santa Fe.

Mr. Haman participated in the Spoleto Festival (Italy) from 1998-2001 where he was principal cellist of the Festival Orchestra, member of the Spoleto Festival String Quartet, and appeared as soloist with the orchestra. He has also performed at the Crested Butte Music Festival, Bienalle of Venice, and received fellowships to the Aspen Music Festival and Tanglewood.

During an Artist Residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts he formed a collaboration with dancer/choreographer José Navas. As The Haman/Navas Project they spent the next two years performing throughout Europe, Canada, and the United States. In 2003 a documentary about the duo titled Perpetual Motion appeared on Bravo. In 2011 he again joined with Jose Navas for a collaboration on the music of J.S. Bach in Brugges, Belgium.

Mr. Haman is a graduate of the New England Conservatory and the San Francisco Conservatory where his main teachers were Laurence Lesser and Irene Sharp.

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J. Amber Egbert is a studio artist as well as an adjunct faculty member Brigham Young University. She received her BS from Utah State University (1998) and her MFA from Brigham Young University (2016). She is an artist that works primarily in clay. Her work often combines hand built, slip cast and wheel thrown components. When creating her work she seeks for quiet, rhythmic balance between contrasting or opposing elements. She sees these elements often present themselves in her observations and interpretations of motion versus stillness, literal versus symbolic, masculine versus feminine, decorative versus stark. Often these elements seem to conflict and to present difficulty when trying to exist side-by-side, yet often they do. She enjoys the interplay between tradition, decoration and sparse minimalism. You can find her work on Instagram at @jamberegbert, on the web at jamberart.com, and in person at 15th Street Gallery in Salt Lake City.

Dr. Kristen R. Bromley is a gifted and sought-after instructor, as well as a loved performer and composer. In addition to teaching guitar and jazz studies courses, and ensembles, at Brigham Young University, and directing the BYU Jazz Legacy Band, Dr. Bromley works as a professional arranging/composing, performing, and recording musician; and she is the owner and primary featured artist of Kristen R. Bromley Music, LLC.

Kristen has a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Music Education from Boston University, a Master of Music degree in Jazz Studies from Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music, and a Bachelor of Music degree in Jazz Studies, with an additional BA major in Family History and Genealogy, from Brigham Young University.

In January 2016, Dr. Bromley suffered a severe break to her left-arm humerus bone, which likewise involved the crushing of her left-arm radial nerve. The nerve was damaged to the point that she completely lost the use of many of the muscles in her left arm and hand. Despite a very grim prognosis, which suggested that in a best-case-scenario she would regain a very small percentage of the function of her left-arm and hand, Dr. Bromley experienced a miraculous recovery and works as a musician and guitarist today. In November of 2018, she recorded a debut album called Simply Miraculous, in celebration of her return to professional guitar playing.

Dr. Bromley is the author of several guitar method books; and is featured on various recordings. She has toured as a musician across parts of North America and Europe; and she has performed at several highly prestigious jazz festivals such as the Edinburgh International Jazz Festival in Scotland, the Birmingham International Jazz Festival in England, the Marlborough International Jazz Festival in England, the Loulé Jazz Festival in Portugal, the San Sebastian International Jazz Festival in Spain, and the Ezcaray Jazz Festival in Spain. Dr. Bromley has also performed and helped present clinics at a handful of International Association for Jazz Education conferences; and she was named the outstanding guitar soloist at the Lionel Hampton International Jazz Festival in 2006 and 2007.

As a scholar, Dr. Bromley has focused much of her research on discovering ways to create more interactive and person-centered educational environments wherein individuals experience whole-person learning outcomes as they grow through cognitive, emotional, and experiential means, develop greater self-discipline, and become more fully-functioning persons. (For more information see Person-Centered Learning in a Collegiate Jazz Combo by Kristen R. Bromley).

Kristen loves life, is deeply religious, and truly believes in the awesome power music has to uplift and edify the soul. She has devoted her career to enriching, uplifting, edifying, and inspiring lives through the education, performance, scholarship, composition, recording, and publishing of music.

Rachel Hedman competed in storytelling as a sophomore high schooler in 1994. Everything went wrong with her first telling, and she considered quitting. By senior year, she received 5th in State (Wisconsin) for Storytelling. Rachel launched the BYU Storytelling Club as a freshman; it earned the Service Award. She became the first recipient of the J.J. Reneaux Mentorship grant from the National Storytelling Network, training with Don Doyle. For 15 years, Rachel mentored California high school tellers and received the Arne Nixon Storytelling Award from them. She has been Youth, Educators, and Storytellers Alliance Co-Chair, National Youth Storytelling Showcase Board Member, and Utah Storytelling Guild President. Rachel received the national ORACLE Award for service and leadership in the Western Region and the Karen J. Ashton Award for storytelling service specifically in Utah. For eight years, she served the WSU Storytelling Festival, became Storyteller Chair, and started the Annual Youth Teller Reunion. Meanwhile, she completed her Storytelling Masters from East Tennessee State University. The adoption folktales thesis was defended two days before adopting two boys with her husband, Casey. They have since adopted a girl. She kickstarted Story Crossroads, a Salt Lake county storytelling festival in 2016 and continues to expand it with the dream of an Olympic-level six-day event called World Story Crossroads no later than 2030. Currently, Story Crossroads holds year-round events--from live to virtual--in the form of performances, workshops, camps, and trainings for youth to adults.

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As a collaborative pianist, I’m stoked by opportunities to experiment, adapt, and communicate with all kinds of people, connecting musicians, performers, and audiences as they experience music together.

My musical training required countless hours spent studying scales and scores in isolated rooms where my only companions were pianos and metronomes. This solitary time was meant to prepare me for moments on stage, performing sonatas, etudes, and concertos in competitions that were intended to set me on a concert pianist’s career. Like many “serious” pianists, I found that I wasn’t well-suited to life as a professional soloist; I did, however, find great meaning in applying my skills as a solo pianist to collaborative music-making and teaching.

Working WITH all kinds of people sets me down paths a concert hall career couldn’t have. I’ve worked as a church music director, a dueling pianist, an audition accompanist, a Billy Joel impersonator, and a musician for weddings and funerals. I’ve played restaurants, coffee shops, bars, assisted living centers, hospitals, living rooms, live-feeds, and drag & burlesque shows. I love playing places where people are close, comfortable, and connected—places where community is created, even if (and sometimes, just because) it’s ephemeral.

I’m currently working for Ballet West, where I’m the company pianist. One of my duties includes playing for the Company’s daily technique and warm-up class, one of the loveliest things I think a person can experience. T.h.a.t is a space where everyone in the room is completely focused on a single creative

task: a series of dance combinations given by the teacher at the front of the room. As the pianist, I often don’t know what tune I will be playing, what the meter and rhythmic drive and overall “mood” of the dance movements will be, or how I’m going to adapt and improvise on the tune I select. The dancers often don’t know the exact combination the teacher is going to give. We’re all listening intently to the teacher, memorizing what they’re giving us, and then doing it, unrehearsed, watching and listening to one another. AND WE’RE DOING IT ALL TOGETHER, IN REAL TIME. Talk about communal experience! It’s incredibly personal, incredibly collaborative, and deeply spiritual.

In re-examining my definition of professional success as a musician, I’ve learned to welcome experimentation, adaption, communication, and collaboration as the expansive tools that facilitate communion in performance instead of isolating performing artists, their colleagues, and their audiences. Success isn’t a solitary adaptation—it’s a communal achievement. That’s an idea I want to share.

I’m a Emmy® Award winning professional cinematographer with 20+ years in film and television. I’ve been the Director of Photography (DP) on four features and countless shorts over my career, earning over 100 awards. I have had a unique film education throughout my career, working as head of the camera department for the Sundance Filmmakers Program (a private film school, headed by Robert Redford). Over 16 years at the Sundance Labs, I have had the opportunity to work and study under some of the best and most accomplished DP’s in the film industry. My last year at Sundance, I ran the Labs as Labs production Manager. In the past two years, I have taken the second largest airgun e-commerce company in the United States and grown it’s social media followers to over five times its original size through video content I produced, filmed and edited. I spend most of my time between L.A. and Utah as I continue in my pursuit of the perfect shot.

Guy Seidel is a comedian/musician/business owner raised in a small town but now based in Salt Lake City who has traveled the country and more by himself as a comedian and as half of the musical-comedy duo “Marcus and Guy”.

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Justin Shifflett is an award winning Chef in Salt Lake City, Utah. He graduated from the Atlantic Culinary Academy, Le Cordon Bleu in 2006. From there he worked his way up the culinary ladder from intern to Executive Chef working at several restaurants in Salt Lake City. He currently works at Stoneground Kitchen, as the Executive Chef, where he serves up delicious Italian food.

Justin has always had a love for creating food to share with people. He feels that food is more than something you eat, it is a way to learn about the world around you and connect with people. For him cooking a meal for someone isn't merely about providing food to nourish the body, but about also creating an experience to be cherished for a lifetime.

When he is not working Justin loves to spend time with his family, fly fish, play golf and grill over an open flame. His love of making food is also an important part of how he spends time at home. He loves to cook for his family, and before he had kids his friends (just kidding we know it is really the job that makes having friends outside of work hard). He sees food as a way to pass down tradition and family history.