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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 from a very early age. When i was 8 and he was 10 we took apart our mothers vacuum cleaner and turned it into a hovercraft on the back patio. Insatiably curious, no lock was was a barrier to us. We could crack our fathers safe from 10 years old. We both tested off the charts yet flunked out of school. Unfortunately schools are not set up to teach gifted kids. Incredibly ADHD and prone to mischief I was a pain in the ass to my parents. But i learned from them that you can make anything if you're determined. When I was 15 my grandmother gave me a deer hide that was shit by her father when he was 80 years old. That was

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 wisdom flowers share with us and their ability to teach us about trust, connection, and presence. @ritualinbloom www.ritualinbloom.com

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, China. Dr. Baldwin has appeared across the North America, Europe and Asia as a conductor and performer on viola and viola d’amore. International conducting appearances include the Hunan Symphony and Wuhan University Orchestras in China, Busan Maru International Music Festival in South Korea, Eutin Festspiele in Germany, Kuopio Academy of Music in Finland, and the Hermitage Camerata in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and tours with the University of Utah Chamber Orchestra to London, Vienna, Graz and Salzburg. In demand as a guest conductor and clinician, he also has conducted performances with the Utah Arts Festival, Gr

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 OF WARCRAFT: BLOODSWORN, and GUN CANDY. Over the past 15 years, Doug has written for such companies as The CW Network, CBS, NFL, TruTV, Summit Entertainment, Warner Bros. Pictures, Legendary Pictures, DC Comics, Blizzard Entertainment, Image Comics, Dynamite Entertainment, Top Cow Productions, and 12-Gauge Comics. He currently resides somewhere in the mountains of Utah where he conspires with his three rescue cats about felines ruling the world, reads tons of comics, and attempts to grow the oddest succulents he can find. Instagram: @Doug.Wagner13 Website: www.shocknoggin.com

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 empowerment. from 1995-1999, cat made an academic go of her art and then, traversing the unexpected technological revolution, joined professional digital in 2005. (she has never forgotten where her heart lies, and fully intends to replace the “dark side” with the “dark room,” one day.) regardless of the medium, she has exhibited all over the salt lake valley and has won many awards. cat's most recent project "go home trump" went viral. cat has devoted her craft to the expression of meaning through images, and has found a powerful voice in empowerment. her empowerment themes have been: self-esteem, peace, self-reliance,

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, where he currently resides with his family. Insta @andrew.alba https://www.andrew-alba.com

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 control over, or ability to predict how another person will behave. But rather than feeling suspicion and scarcity at this fact, we’re able to feel reverence at what trust actually means when removed from certainty. What’s more sacred than realizing that every individual is as complex and ever-evolving as yourself, that everyone is a main character in their own story, that you have no control whatsoever over anyone…and in that humble and weighted frame of mind, still deciding to attempt connection?

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 is the 2021 Utah Arts Festival Indie Slam Champion, with a host of other awards over the years. She has been featured on Write About Now Poetry. Wynter is the cofounder of Utah Black Artists Collective (UBLAC.) She has a chapbook called "A Glimpse Into Surviving Wynters Storm" In February she released a collection of poetry titled "Black Rainbow Layers" She is a featured artist in a poetry collection published in Las Vegas called "Beyond the Neon Lights Anthology" Wynter is excited to announce she will be releasing another collection of poetry titled "H.O.M.E." in October 2022! Website: www.wynterthepoet.c

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. Although the skill sets and disciplines have varied, the common thread that binds them all together is passion—I just love film—that’s my foundation. I’m grateful for my various roles in the industry, because they’ve given me the one thing that foundations should offer—a solid place to launch from. Throughout my filmmaking journey I held a secret—although I was incredibly comfortable behind the camera (and was making a good career out of it)—where I really wanted to be was in front of the camera, metabolizing scripts, taking the words of another and bringing them to life in a way that impacts people the way I’

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 + the world to SEE ourselves with the love and acceptance we deserve (and for all of the beauty permanently lost in these battles). It’s an outpouring of joy at the beauty and wonder of our colorful human family. It’s a hope that someday we won’t have to bleed in order to be seen and valued. And, it’s a tribute to the creativity society’s “others” employ to teach the world how to see us, and to project our full vibrancy within world that works so hard to bury it.

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 Dungeons & Dragons campaigns as a side hustle, but four months later he had to quit his day job to keep up with the accelerated demand for his brand of epic storytelling! He now manages an entire team of professional Dungeon Masters, teaches his skills online and at conferences, and writes novels on the side. He lives in Utah with an old border collie and his lovely wife. They are raising two children whom he hopes will also grow up to be professional nerds someday. www.dungeonmasterdirect.com

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 is breathtaking, too. The simple fact that every person is a whole separate person is a totally bizarre and fairly magical reality we too easily forget. Remembering how the stranger in the dream shatters into flowers…we can remember to see the brokenness of our fellow humans as its own kind of beauty—fractures of a wholly unique soul. I find that empathy gets a lot easier when I can manage to be genuinely curious about how completely individual each person is. And I can let it feel enchanting and sacred because it quite simply IS.

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 Performance Degree and then went on to receive her Bachelor’s Teaching Degree in Theater & Music from BYU-Idaho. Shiloh soon transitioned her stage practice to film with acting credits including Lakes 7 and the Golden Gun, The Life of Jesus Christ, and Maggie to name a few. In 2016 Shiloh founded the Salt Lake Actors Studio; a workshop that provided free performance education for the acting community. Shiloh then took time off to re-establish her roots in Haisla Territory. During this experience she realized she could play a role in keeping her history and culture alive through story. Shortly after, she had two personal d

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 completely different. Missing the food from New Jersey, he and his wife Janet planned, built Feldman’s Deli, Utah's only authentic Jewish Deli, featuring a variety of traditional sandwiches and European/Old World specialties, opened in 2012. He serves as Chief Everything Officer. The Deli has been recognized for its authenticity and quality by every Salt Lake City authority. It is Deli Done Right! You can occasionally catch him playing his music at the Deli or other venues as part of the “Two Old Guys”. https://www.feldmansdeli.com/home https://www.instagram.com/two_old_guys_music/ https://www.instagram.com/feldm

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 you have when you’ve left behind the person you used to be, but you’re not yet sure exactly who you might become. You’re exhausted, and while you aren’t sure what is ahead, you’re only looking forward. You no longer have even the faintest desire to turn back. It wouldn’t be possible anyway.

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. Paul is currently in Lehi with his wife and four children, and is a full-time actor and performer. Twitter - @PaulTCartwright Instagram - @PaulTCartwright Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/paulcartwright.voiceover.9

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 "Aftershock". https://www.instagram.com/elpedroflores/

My name is Malory Christensen. I was born in Montana, but raised in Salt Lake City, Utah. I graduated from Westminster College with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree: with an emphasis in Ceramics, and a Minor in Psychology. Upon my completion at Westminster, I moved to Seattle, Washington to pursue a graduate degree in Marriage and Family Therapy, with a specialization in Art Therapy. Having earned my Master's Degree from Antioch University, I moved back home to Utah, and am working as an Art Therapist and Marriage and Family Therapist. In my free time I love exploring different art mediums and challenging myself to try new things. Art has always been a way for me to relax and de-stress and is one of the best coping tools I have found. While they are complex, the tedious process in which I apply my patterns has always been therapeutic for me. Website link: https://malorychristensen.wixsite.com/create Therapy link: https://unifiedfamilytherapy.com/

A breakdown of the writing, meaning, and hidden treasures in the fifth track of my new album "The Hallowed Wide" out on all streaming platforms now! A song for the fiercest kind of love...