Inez Garcia grew up in Salt Lake City, UT. She attended Alfred University, ranked second in the nation for glass art and located in upstate New York. She continued her path by fusing her art and Chicana identity. She earned a minor in Spanish Literature, specializing in Latin American cultures. Her senior thesis combined the two with a visual representation of western perceptions of exoticism in Latin culture.

Now, she primarily works in glass, exploring multiple modalities of the medium through casting, painting. and screen printing.

Bea Hurd is a Salt Lake City based artist and arts educator. She currently teaches art at West Jordan High School, but is preparing for the perusal of her MFA next year, with her sights set on Louisiana State University. Bea’s art practice focuses on self analysis through dissection of her material relationships. She believes to truly understand who she is, she must analyze the items she chooses to surround herself with, the environment she exists within, and the connotations of such material realities. Bea has had solo shows at the Finch Lane Gallery, Knox Contemporary, Bountiful

Davis Art center, The Gallery at Library Square, Salt Lake Community College, and looks forward to an upcoming solo exhibition at the UMOCA, opening this November.

Christopher Lynn is a Utah-based artist, curator, writer, and educator. His work has been exhibited in numerous institutions nationwide as well as galleries in Germany and New Zealand and was a 2017 Peripheral Vision Publication Fellow.

He has been a gallery director for the Center for Book and Paper Arts at Columbia College, Chicago; assistant curator for galleries and museums at DePauw University; and executive director of the Gallery of Contemporary Art at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. From 2008 to 2013, he was the executive director of SPACES in Cleveland, OH. He is currently Associate Professor of Historical, Critical, and Cultural Studies in Art at Brigham Young University.

His most recent curatorial projects were for the Journal for Transnational American Studies and SPRING/BREAK Los Angeles. His writing has appeared in the Miami Art Exchange, New Art Examiner, 15 Bytes, Temporary Art Review, the Journal of the Utah Academy, the Journal of Social Theory in Art Education, and Wicked Arts Assignments.

Amy MacDonald is the Founder and Director of Brolly Arts and owner of MacDonald Designs through which she consults and implements creative placemaking programming for other organizations. She graduated from Stanford with a BA in Human Biology, an MBA from UCLA in Arts and Non-Profit Management, and an Associate’s Degree with honors in Visual Art and Design with an emphasis on Graphic Design at SLCC. A former professional dancer, Amy worked with companies in Europe and the United States for decades and was a Rotary Scholar for dance in Germany. In 2022, Amy received Utah’s Lifetime Cultural Career Achievement Award.