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Yemisi Agbebi

Identity: 801 Creative Women, Living Color; Musician; Poet; UA&M Teaching Artist; Writer

Yemisi Agbebi is a Singer –Songwriter/ Educator/Author/Storyteller/ Poet/Speaker/Culture advocate from Nigeria, West Africa. She has spent the last thirteen years offering cultural education consultation for schools through ... View more

Zinse Agginie

Actor; Identity: Living Color; Musician; Storyteller; UA&M Teaching Artist

Zinse is a native of Ghana who has lived in the USA for many years. Before coming to the USA Zinse lived in the UK working as a registered psychiatric nurse. Zinse also majored in Graphic Arts Technology at the London School of Printing. In the ... View more

Nick Morrison AirFare

Identity: 801 Creative Women; Musician; Performing Group; UA&M Teaching Artist

Flutist Leslie Timmons and clarinetist Nicholas Morrison have performed as the duo ~AirFare~ since 1992. One of only three classical music ensembles funded in 1999 by the Unit- ed States Information Agency’s American Artists ... View more

Brock Alius

UA&M Teaching Artist; Visual Artist

Brock Alius was born in Utah 1987. His formative study took place over the course of 5 years, under the direction of an alumnus of the Florence Academy of Art. Upon graduating he was the head instructor at the Center for ... View more

Eiko Anderson

Identity: 801 Creative Women, Living Color; UA&M Teaching Artist; Visual Artist

Eiko Tonami Anderson Eiko is a native of Japan. While growing, she studied calligraphy and later intensively studied the cursive form of Kanji and Kana (Japanese syllables) with a master calligraphor, Zuiun Kobayashi. In the United States she began ... View more

Gigi Arrington

Dancer; Identity: 801 Creative Women; UA&M Teaching Artist

Gigi’s dance life began in her grandmother’s living room and continued with few interruptions (except for the birth of four babies and knee & hip surgeries) for over 45 years. She was a full-time dancer with ... View more

Drake Auna

Identity: Living Color; Storyteller; UA&M Teaching Artist; Visual Artist

Hana Entertainment & Toa Afi’s founder began his journey on the North Shore of Oahu. Drake Auna managed and trained professional dancers at the famous Polynesian Cultural Center in Hawaii. He is also a passionate painter, and an electrician. ... View more

Raquel Baez

Dancer; Identity: 801 Creative Women, Living Color; UA&M Teaching Artist

Raquel L. Báez is from Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico. She studied Dance Performance Folklore at the National Institute of Fine Arts (INBA). She learned dances from various regions of Mexico such as: Nuevo Leon, Tamaulipas, Chihuahua, Jalis- co, ... View more

Shanan Ballam

Identity: 801 Creative Women; Storyteller; UA&M Teaching Artist; Writer

Shanan Ballam is a lecturer for Utah State University, where she teaches poetry writing and fiction writing. She earned her MFA in Poetry Writing from the University of Nebraska, Omaha, and studied under William Trowbridge, Poet Laure- ate of ... View more

Jeff Ballard

Musician; UA&M Teaching Artist

Jeff Ballard was born in California and raised in Utah. He is a retired elementary teacher, having taught in the same school for 30 years. He began his teaching career at a small rural school in Spanish Fork, Utah. But it wasn’t until 1996 ... View more

Angela Banchero-Kelleher

Dancer; Identity: 801 Creative Women; UA&M Teaching Artist

Angela Banchero-Kelleher, MFA, is an Associate Professor of Modern Dance at Utah Valley University. She has had a professional career spanning over twenty years, including 15 years with Repertory Dance Theatre (RDT), during which time she was a ... View more

Terrece Beesley

Identity: 801 Creative Women; UA&M Teaching Artist; Visual Artist

Terrece Beesley is a watercolor artist who received her BFA degree in painting from Utah State University. She has exhibited her paintings locally and nationally, receiving an Award of Merit in the Spring Salon at the Springville Museum. Upcoming ... View more

Jacque Bell

Dancer; Identity: 801 Creative Women; UA&M Teaching Artist

Jacque Lynn Bell is a dancer, choreographer, and an AmSAT cer- tified instructor of the Alexander Technique. She holds a Bache- lor of Science in Psychology and a Master of Fine Arts in Dance and Choreography, both from the University of Utah. She ... View more

Marilyn Berrett

Dancer; UA&M Teaching Artist

Dance Education & Contemporary Dance Professor Marilyn Ber- rett is passionate about guiding students of all ages to discover, explore, create and express their unique ideas through dance. Whether teaching creative or cultural dance for its own ... View more

Peggy Black

UA&M Teaching Artist; Visual Artist

Born for the Many Goats Clan and to her maternal Arrow Peo- ple Clan, Peggy Rock Black learned to weave from her mother, grandmother, and sister at the age of 10-years-old. In addition to the weaving technique, Peggy knows the natural plant dyes and ... View more

Elaine Brewster

Actor; Choreographer; Composer; Dancer; Director; Filmmaker; Graphic Designer; Musician; Photographer; Poet; Singer; Storyteller; UA&M Teaching Artist; Visual Artist; Writer

Music! Storytelling! Drama! My job is to be your advocate: I tailor my programs according to your needs. I LOVE teaching and sharing - whether elementary grades or adult! Uniquely positioned, I play unusual folk instruments (hammered dulcimer, ... View more

Joseph Brickey

UA&M Teaching Artist; Visual Artist

Joseph F. Brickey is an award-winning artist in drawing, painting and sculpture who is the director of the Beaux-Arts Academy, a school of classical art and ar- chitecture. After graduating with a BFA from Brigham Young University in 1998, he spent ... View more

Elisabeth Bunker

UA&M Teaching Artist; Visual Artist

After receiving a BFA in Painting from Metropolitan State Univer- sity of Denver, I moved to Salt Lake City. I've been teaching art here since 2011, and currently teach at secondary students at Utah International Charter School. I enjoy working with ... View more

Emily Byrd

UA&M Teaching Artist; Visual Artist

Emily Byrd received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art Teaching from the University of Utah in 2018. Upon graduation and is currently enrolled at Johns Hopkins University Advanced Academic Programs in the Museum Studies Master of Arts Program. She is ... View more

Emily Carruth Fuller

UA&M Teaching Artist; Visual Artist

Emily Carruth Fuller began her passion for art at an early age. This carried her to study at Brigham Young University earning her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. She studied abroad in Italy and continued her studies doing an apprenticeship with ... View more

Eva Castellanoz

UA&M Teaching Artist; Visual Artist; Mexican traditional crafts

Genoveva Castellanoz was born November 18, 1932, in Mexico. When she was two, her family moved to the Rio Grande Valley of Texas for work. There, she learned the household arts of crocheting, knitting, and embroi- dery. She also learned to make ... View more

Penny Caywood

Actor; Director; UA&M Teaching Artist

Penelope (Penny) Marantz Caywood is known and respected throughout the Salt Lake Valley as an actor, teacher, choreographer, and as the Artistic Director of University of Utah Youth Theatre. Youth Theatre is a successful year-round performing arts ... View more

Erika Cespedes

Photographer; UA&M Teaching Artist; Visual Artist

Erika is an award winning photographer and arts educator. Ever since she can re- member art has been a part of her life, she participated in art festivals, competi- tions and afterschool art programs. She attended Art Universities in Fort Lauder- ... View more

Ruby Chacon

UA&M Teaching Artist; Visual Artist

Ruby Chacón is first generation high school and college graduate in her family. This experience has informed and inspired her lifelong work in the arts and how it relates to community. Chacón’s artwork has taken her to many ... View more

Cindy Lewis Clark

UA&M Teaching Artist; Visual Artist

Cindy Lewis Clark, an encaustic artist, loves teaching, creating, learning, hik- ing, and traveling. She has been recognized as outstanding art educator for Utah, received the Arthur Watkins award as educator of the year, received a national ... View more

Trish Clay

UA&M Teaching Artist; Visual Artist

Patricia (Trish) Clay completed a BA in Art Education, K-12 and an MA in Counseling and Special Education. She has worked for forty years teaching and counseling at all levels from elementary to college, including Job Corps and prison ... View more

Andrew Dabczynski

Composer; Musician; UA&M Teaching Artist

Andrew H. Dabczynski, Professor Emeritus of Music Education at Brigham Young University, is an internationally recognized string mu- sic education specialist. He has vast experience as a public school and ... View more

Karen De Mauro

Choreographer; Dancer; Director; Photographer; UA&M Teaching Artist

Karen De Mauro is Artistic Director of The Acting Center. In addition to coaching Broadway actors and corporate executives, she has been an International Artist-in Residence for over 40 years. She specializes in creating Original Audience ... View more

Kathie Debenham

Dancer; UA&M Teaching Artist

Kathie Debenham is a Professor of Dance at Utah Valley Uni- versity and a Certified Laban Bartenieff Movement Analyst. In her 21 years at UVU she has served as the founding chair of the UVU Dance Department and created the UVU associates and ... View more

Pat Debenham

Dancer; UA&M Teaching Artist

Pat Debenham is an Artist and Educator. As a Master Teacher Pat has done residences and workshops regionally, nationally and internationally. He is a founding member of daCiand for 15 years, he was Co-Artistic Director of and performer with ... View more

Aja Domingo

Photographer; UA&M Teaching Artist; Videographer

Aja Domingo is a Utah Native and Graduate of UVU. She enjoys creating videos and taking photos as well as teaching and speak- ing. Aja is currently working for an advertising agency and knows a few things about media and promotion. Aja teaches the ... View more

Céline Downen

Identity: 801 Creative Women; Photographer; UA&M Teaching Artist; Visual Artist

Céline Downen pieces together community voices with elements of her natural surroundings to create a sense of place. Her artistic process can be summed up in three words: gather, piece, and stitch. Gather represents the collecting of materials, ... View more

Stefanie Dykes

UA&M Teaching Artist; Visual Artist

Stefanie Dykes is a co-founder of Saltgrass Printmakers, estab- lished in 2003. Saltgrass Printmakers is a non-profit printmak- ing studio and gallery located in Salt Lake City, Utah. She is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of ... View more

Joan Effiong

Storyteller; UA&M Teaching Artist

Joan Effiong loves to tell stories from her childhood. Growing up in Calabar, Nigeria, in West Africa, Joan spent countless hours listening to her elders tell tales. Both of Joan’s grandmothers would gather all the children around and teach them ... View more

Theresa Ellis and SYNKOFA - Celtic Jazz

Composer; Musician; Performing Group; Producer; UA&M Teaching Artist; Music Arranger

World-class violinist/recording artist Theresa Ellis of Eden, Utah is the founder of the 4 piece ensemble SYNKOFA (sing-Koh-fa) and helped to pioneer the genre of Celtic Jazz for this instrumental group. The first formation of the group was with her ... View more

Adam Johnston Erik Stern

Dancer; UA&M Teaching Artist

Adam Johnston and Erik Stern are professors at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah, and known for their ground-breaking interdisciplinary work in education. Erik Stern co-directs an in- ternationally touring dance company that has pioneered con- ... View more

Enrique Feldman

Dancer; Musician; Storyteller; UA&M Teaching Artist; Writer

Enrique is an artist and educator whose influence is worldwide. He is known for his innovation in using literacy with both the human body and music to create multiple perspectives for the learner. These research-based, play-based, and joy filled ... View more

Louise Fischman

Identity: 801 Creative Women; UA&M Teaching Artist; Visual Artist

Louise Fischman received her BFA from Pratt Institute in New York and earned her teaching certificate at the University of Utah. She has also studied with the American Museum of Natural History and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. With her ... View more

Martha Flores

Dancer; UA&M Teaching Artist

Martha Flores is a dance Teacher for West Kearns Dual Immersion Program Stu- dents. She also choreographs and teaches dance for Luz de Las Naciones (Light of the Nations – LDS CHURCH). For the last 9 years she has choreographed differ- ent ... View more

Teresa Flowers

Photographer; UA&M Teaching Artist; Visual Artist

Teresa Flowers is an internationally recognized photographer/ artist based in Los Angeles, California. Teresa loves being in the sun, traveling, making music, painting, surfing and riding bikes. Her artwork has been published in numerous ... View more

Scott Flox

UA&M Teaching Artist; Visual Artist

Scott Flox is an artist, musician and teacher. He has been creating art and illustrations for educational projects for many years, including whimsical caricatures. Mr. Flox spent over 35 years teaching elementary school developing confident, ... View more

Patricia Folau

Dancer; UA&M Teaching Artist

Patricia Tiare Folau trained and performed at the Polynesian Cultural Center in Laie, Hawaii while attendng college at BYU Hawaii. She formed Siva Polynesia Dance Revue, a professional dance troupe that performed in Europe for ... View more

Lapita Frewin

UA&M Teaching Artist; Visual Artist

My name is Lapita Keith Frewin. I am a full-blooded Navajo born on the Navajo reservation. I left home at the early age of nine to live with a main-stream American family to get a better educa- tion. Returning home every summer, I was able to ... View more

Dennise Gackstetter

UA&M Teaching Artist; Visual Artist

Dennise Gackstetter has lived a very migratory life. Her wanderings have taken her many places across the country and around the world. She has been a Lecturer of Art at Mohave Community College in Lake Havasu City, AZ and Juniata College in ... View more

Jared Garrett

UA&M Teaching Artist; Writer

Jared Garrett has loved books since childhood; stories of adventure and family and heroes showed him a world that he wanted to live in—so it’s no wonder he became a writer. He has seven published novels with several more on the way. He started ... View more

Kumu C. Pomaika'i Gaui

Choreographer; Dancer; Musician; Singer; Storyteller; UA&M Teaching Artist

Kumu C. Pomaika`i hails from Wai`anae, O`ahu and resides in West Valley, Utah. He has been involved in hula since the 7th grade in Ha- wai’i and is now a kumu hula (dance teacher) at Kehaulani Hula Stu- dio in Salt Lake City. Learning hula as a ... View more

Wayne Geary

UA&M Teaching Artist; Visual Artist

Wayne Geary is a professional visual artist who has exhibited his work in galleries and museums locally and nationally. He has been awarded commissions to paint large murals through public art programs. Wayne has conducted many residencies in Utah ... View more

Sheri Gibb

Identity: 801 Creative Women; UA&M Teaching Artist; Visual Artist

Sheri, husband Mark, and their family reside in Salt Lake City, Utah. She is the Executive Direc- tor of Clever Octopus Inc. dba Clever Octopus Creative Reuse Center located in Murray, UT. She holds a BS from Brigham Young University, and has ... View more

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