Artifice

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 musical theatre, she alternates between that and music. Among other shows, she was a performer in the Smithsonian’s American Songbook Program, and ensemble member in Studio Theatre’s adaptation of Passing Strange. She was also a featured ensemble member in the acclaimed hippie love-rock musical HAIR, both the first National tour and Broadway. Her off-broadway credits include: Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812, the acclaimed Porn musical Pretty Filthy, and acclaimed folk-opera Hadestown. Lulu portrayed the character of Brenda in Capital Repertory’s production of Smokey Joe’s Cafe in Albany. Lulu was most rece

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 as to what makes cities and buildings truly timeless. https://www.claytonvance.com/

"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 comes to new flavors or a new flower. I love to pick apart a flower and see how it's put together. My best work is done when I have a fresh flower in front of me to model mine after. When I'm not working, which is rare, I love to travel and experience food in different places. New York and Thailand are my favorite places I've visited so far. I'm always looking for reasons to adventure to new destinations. Food is my love language and my favorite things in life are sharing food and laughs with people I love. Balance of salty and sweet is my jam. My family lovingly calls me "the salt police" because I'm alway

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 Oleander, Massachusetts Review, Terrain, and Water-Stone Review, among others. He lives in Salt Lake City. https://www.terrain.org/2018/poetry/joel-long/

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 become the go-to producer for many Utah artists as well as artists from all over the world. These artists go to Vox Fox Studios to produce their music because they know they will get their best vocal performances, modern production sounds and mixes that are “radio-ready”. As a singer/songwriter herself and session vocalist, her songs and voice can be heard in dozens of TV Shows and movies. As a woman in a male dominated field, Becky is actively engaged in educating and inspiring young women in her community and worldwide to pursue music production and engineering. If you are ready for that “next step” contact Becky

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 directed Cradle Song, her first short film in May 2019. https://www.celestechaney.com/

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 powerful. No need to think about what to wear, simply put on a jacket or top and you’re ready to take on the day. http://www.byshao.com/ https://www.facebook.com/byshaousa https://www.instagram.com/byshaousa/

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 & Grill for Pygmalion Theater Company in Salt Lake City, Utah. Folks have been lining up to see her ever since. Front Row Review glowed "You know how to tell the difference between an extraordinary singer and one who is mediocre? The “ugly” face. You know the kind that Patti and Aretha get when nothing matters in the world (not poise, beauty, makeup, lashes falling off, hair coming undone) except the love affair between artist and song? That is Darby-Duffin. Darby is immersive with her audiences and if she recognizes you, she is sure to "call you out" and thank you for your support. https://www.deedeedarbyduffin.c

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 Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, the Bang on a Can Festival, Aspen Music Festival, Spoleto Festival and London’s Royal Opera House. Bimstein was born in Chicago and is a graduate of Chicago Conservatory of Music, where he majored in theory & composition. In the 1980s he led the new wave band Phil ‘n’ the Blanks, whose three albums and six videos were college radio and MTV hits. After further studies at UCLA in composition, orchestration and conducting, Bimstein took a hiking trip to southern Utah and never left. Fascinated by language and the ability of music to tell a story, he frequently incorpo

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 group Alabama, among many others. Melanie most recently completed her stay as associate music director/conductor for the first U.S. national tour of Roald Dahl and Tim Minchin’s Matilda The Musical. Melanie is currently music directing for Michael Feinstein’s Great American Songbook Foundation. Formerly, Melanie served as musical director and arranger, as well as played keyboard/Hammond B3 organ alongside pop and country multi-platinum artist Collin Raye. She has been featured in and is a regular contributor to Joseph Gordon-Leavitt’s collaborative musical community, hitRECord. In addition, she has played for man

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 Lake (which was never on the map for its choice in food) the dream seemed vaguely ludicrous. Would there ever be a chef in this area who would invest in custom hand-made dinnerware? With the Olympics, a strong economy, and a growing population, farm-to-table restaurants such as Forage began to advance the idea of fine-dining. My first collaboration with a local restaurant began with Bowman Brown at Forage years ago, and has since expanded to include a handful of the finest restaurants in the Salt Lake and Park City areas. My main focus as a ceramic artist when it comes to dinnerware is to create a canvas for the c

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, and New Langton Arts (San Francisco). Her play, Oda Might, will have its world premiere at Plan-B Theatre Company in November 2019. She received her BA in Art History from the University of Utah (2006), and her MA in Exhibition and Museum Studies from the San Francisco Art Institute (2009).

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 in Steven Soderbergh's "Logan Lucky", HBO's "Mosaic", and a slate of upcoming projects releasing in 2019-2020. In addition to acting, Brandon has directed and produced projects for Comedy Central & Warner Bros and is deeply involved in the nurturing and mentoring of other creatives/storytellers/actors. He currently resides near Park City, UT., where he continues to explore, hone his craft, and live life (and all of its questions) with his beautiful wife and mischievously amazing children.

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 Theatre Company in the spring of 2019. Olivia currently serves as the Director of Individual Giving at Utah Symphony | Utah Opera and also served as the Director of Development at Salt Lake Acting Company.

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 York City working at Electric Lady Studios. Jed is now on staff as an audio engineer at June Audio Recording Studios, works as a music producer for bands and artists, and gigs as a keyboard player. When not in the studio, you can find Jed enjoying his hobbies of rock climbing or riding his motorcycle.

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 travel and see all the places she’s read about.

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 acclaimed, best-selling young adult novel, ELEANOR, THE UNSEEN. It is a great book and if you haven’t read it, you need to. Johnny’s debut novel, the adult occult thriller, BEATRYSEL along with its companion story DR. STUART’S HEART explores the darker sides of love and Magick. CELESTE, THE UNSEEN BOOK 2, continues Eleanor’s story as she tries to maintain a life in Jamesford, while distant events and local suspicion conspire to threaten everything. DAVID, THE UNSEEN BOOK 3, sees the powerful transformative conclusion of this awarding series as Eleanor learns her past and builds her future. Johnny’s entry into mystery

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 humble goal of $6k reaching an incredible $100k in funds to kickstart their game. Their second game, Tortuga 1667, solidified the success they were having when they reached $400k, and thus Façade Games as an official game publishing company was born. Sarah’s post graduate career as an board game illustrator also officially began. With 3 successful board games (the latest, Deadwood 1876, garnering over half a million dollars in its KS campaign) now behind her, she continues to draw and paint with fervor always keeping an eye for the next great opportunity. Her work has also been included in a well known children’s ma

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 many more. Joseph also performs with his original progressive hard rock band Solyphony, who just released their first single, “The Dawning.”

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 skills and developed an excitement for Italian cuisine. This excitement took her to Italy where she studied & learned the art of homemade pasta, pizza and sauces.​ Since her days in Italy, Aubrey has used her skills and passion to feed the masses through private catering, cooking classes and taking care of her family. Aubrey's clientele includes: - James Harden (Houston Rockets) - Kevin Durant (Golden State Warriors) - C-Suite Executives at: Vivint Smart Home, Clear Link, Low VA Rates, Overstock, Nuskin, Skull Candy, DOMO, Traeger grills - Award-winning doctors - Music Producers - Local City Officials - Legis