Gabrielle Bratton - Jewelry Designer
Gabe is from Raleigh and earned a BFA in jewelry and metals from the University of Georgia. She currently lives and works in Charleston. Garden & Gun magazine named her a 2010 Made in the South - Style award-winner. Her pieces combine historical fashion with contemporary style. One of her specialties is the lost wax casting process, where she integrates traditional clothing adornments into modern pieces of jewelry, preserving the original design by replacing it with metal. Gabe also works with semiprecious stones in a variety of colors, styles and designs. Her pieces are unique, delicate and the perfect blend of masculine and feminine concepts. Her necklaces and cuffs compliment jeans as well as they do ballgowns. www.gabriellejewelry.com
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Andy Coats - Musician
A native North Carolinian, Andy Coats began in his early teens singing and playing in hard rock and then progressive rock bands. From there, he worked his way back to the blues and other roots-based music. After completing a PhD in 1999, Andy released three CDs and appeared on "The United State of Americana," a 2004 Shut Eye Records compilation. He has performed live on NPR stations and has played a wide variety of venues nationally. In 2003 and 2004, Andy was named one of the top blues acts by the Southern California Blues Society. Now back in Raleigh, he has begun performing, writing and recording a new batch of songs--delving more into the "Piedmont" blues and working out the styles of such titans as Blind Boy Fuller and the Rev. Gary Davis. www.andycoats.com
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Jerome Davis - Artistic Director
Jerome is Burning Coal Theatre Company's founding artistic director. He has worked at Trinity Repertory Company (Providence), People's Light & Theatre Company (PA), New Jersey Shakespeare Festival, Phoenix Theatre (SUNY Purchase), Wellfleet Harbor Actors' Theatre (Cape Cod), Columbia University, and Soho Rep' New Dramatists, Avalon Rep and MINT Theatre (NYC). Originally from Murfreesboro, Tennessee, he studied in New York with Uta Hagen, Nikos Psacharapolous and Julie Bovasso. For Burning Coal, he has directed Rat in the Skull, Pentecost, The Steward of Christendom, Winding the Ball, Night and Day, and The Weir and Company. He co-wrote The Man Who Tried to Save the World with Floraine Kay, presented in Burning Coal's 2003/2004 season. Burning Coal Theatre has been producing events since 1997.
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Brian Fenty - Broadway Producer
Brian Fenty, in his role as Broadway producer, is currently turning the critically acclaimed documentary Moving Midway, based in Raleigh, into a Broadway musical. He was previously a producer of the 2009 play Oleanna. Brian Fenty is the Managing Partner of The Broadway Fund, the first institutional investment manager to create Indexed theatrical investment opportunities. The Fund invests outside capital in the theatrical productions of Broadway musicals as well as global subsidiary productions. Mr. Fenty has previously performed as an actor and Broadway producer. He serves on the Chancellor's Working Group at UNC-Chapel Hill, where he received his BA in Marketing and Entrepreneurship. Mr. Fenty is also actively involved in many civic and philanthropic organizations supporting innovation and the arts in education. Notably, Mr. Fenty is currently turning the critically acclaimed documentary Moving Midway, based in Raleigh, into a Broadway musical. www.thebroadwayfund.com
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Allan Gurganus - Author
Robert Wilson, editor of The American Scholar, has called Gurganus "the rightful heir to Faulkner and Welty." Gurganus's first published story "Minor Heroism" appeared in The New Yorker in 1974; this tale offered the first gay character that magazine had ever presented. In 1989, his novel Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All (Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters), spent eight months on the bestseller list and has been translated into 12 languages, selling more than two million copies. His works include a collection of stories and novellas, White People, and the novel Plays Well With Others. His latest book is The Practical Heart: Four Novellas. Born in Rocky Mount in 1947, Gurganus first trained as a painter, turning to writing while serving a three-year stint onboard the USS Yorktown during the Vietnam War. Allan subsequently graduated from Sarah Lawrence College. He has taught at Stanford, Duke, Sarah Lawrence and the Iowa Writers' Workshop and was recently inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Science. Allan lives now in Hillsborough, rising early to write and garden daily. www.allangurganus.com
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Sarah Hicks - Conductor, NC Symphony
Sarah Hicks began her second season as North Carolina Symphony Associate Conductor in 2010-11. Noted in The New York Times as part of "a new wave of female conductors," Sarah Hicks's versatile and vibrant musicianship has secured her place in "the next generation of up-and-coming American conductors." Recently appointed principal conductor, pops and presentations, of the Minnesota Orchestra, she concurrently holds the position of staff conductor at the Curtis Institute of Music. Throughout her career, she has collaborated with diverse soloists and has conducted extensively both in the United States and abroad. Born in Tokyo and reared in Honolulu, Hicks trained on both the piano and viola and was a prizewinning pianist by her early teens. She received her BA magna cum laude from Harvard University as a composition major; her AIDS Oratorio premiered at Harvard in May 1993. She also holds a degree in conducting from the Curtis Institute of Music.
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Scott Huler - Author
Scott Huler is the 2011 North Carolina Piedmont Laureate. He graduated from Washington University in 1981; he was made a member of Phi Beta Kappa for the breadth of his studies, a breadth that has been a signature of his writing work. He has written on everything from the death penalty to bikini waxing, from NASCAR racing to the stealth bomber, for newspapers (New York Times, Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, Los Angeles Times, Philadelphia Daily News and Raleigh News & Observer) and magazines (Backpacker, Fortune, Child). His award-winning radio work has been heard on NPR and American Public Media. Scott has taught at Berry College and UNC-Chapel Hill and sometimes serves as guest host on "The State of Things" on WUNC-FM. On the Grid is his sixth book; his work has also been included in Appalachian Adventure, Literary Trails of the North Carolina Piedmont, The Appalachian Trail Reader and Speed: Stories of Survival from Behind the Wheel. Scott lives in Raleigh with his wife, the writer June Spence, and their two sons. www.scotthuler.com
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Dean King - Author
The award-winning author of ten books and numerous stories, Dean King has a deep passion for historical and adventure narratives. His earliest works--A Sea of Words, Harbors and High Seas, and Every Man Will Do His Duty--are companion books to Patrick O'Brian's monumental Aubry-Maturin novel series, the most popular companion books to the 20-book series. Following King's groundbreaking biography of O'Brian, Patrick O'Brian: A Life Revealed (Holt, 2000), he appeared in a BBC documentary about O'Brian and on ABC World News Tonight and NPR's Talk of the Nation. King next published the national bestseller Skeletons on the Zahara, the basis of a National Geographic Adventure feature and a documentary on the History Channel. It is currently being developed as a feature film in London. His latest work, Unbound: A True Story of War, Love, and Survival, about 30 courageous women who walked across China with Mao Zedong in 1934, was published in 2010. He has also contributed stories to Book Marks, Esquire, Men's Journal, National Geographic Adventure, New York, The New York Times, Outside, Travel + Leisure, and The Daily Telegraph. www.deanhking.com
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Juan Logan - Visual Artist
Juan Logan earned his MFA degree at the Maryland Institute College of Art, and he is currently an Associate Professor of Studio Art at UNC-Chapel Hill. Juan's works have been featured in over 250 solo and group exhibitions across the country, including exhibitions at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Colorado; Chicago Cultural Center, Illinois; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania; Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina; and The World Bank, District of Columbia. His work is included in over 60 corporate and public collections including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania; the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Tennessee; the Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina; the Museum of African American Art, Los Angeles; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Born in Tennessee in 1946, Juan began his distinguished career as an artist and teacher in 1960. He resides in Belmont, North Carolina, on land settled by his family in 1848. www.juanlogan.org
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Susan Harbage Page - Photographer
Born in 1959 in Greenville, Ohio, Susan Harbage Page moved to Charlotte as a child. Growing up in the North and South informed her perspective and how her art addresses the performance of race and gender, identity, politics and immigration. The subjects and materials of Page's large-scale photographs, altered textiles, videos, and installations are often associated with women and picture some of the complex intersections of politics, gender, race and religion in the US, as well as Europe and the Middle East. Page has shown nationally and internationally. Her art can be found in many public and private collections, including the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Birmingham Museum of Art, the High Museum of Art, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, and the Israel Museum. Amongst Page's numerous awards are fellowships from the North Carolina Arts Council, the Camargo Foundation, and the Fulbright Program. Page is on the Department of Art faculty at UNC-Chapel Hill, where she now lives. Page received her MFA in photography from the San Francisco Art Institute and degrees in saxophone performance from Michigan State University. www.susanharbagepage.blogspot.com
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Bill Leslie - Musician/Journalist
Bill Leslie has been in broadcasting for over 30 years and anchors WRAL-TV's morning and noon newscasts. He has won more than 70 major awards and is the only two-time Peabody Award winner (top award for broadcasting) from North Carolina. He is a five-time Emmy winner. Leslie has also earned great acclaim as a composer, producer, arranger and performer. He has recorded five Celtic fusion CDs: "I Am a River," "Peaceful Journey: A Celebration of North Carolina," "Christmas in Carolina" and "Grace and Stone," along with "The Hunt" from the Bragh Adair collection. He was named "2005 Best New Artist' by New Age Reporter and "Best Holiday Album in 2005." Leslie performs with Bill Leslie & Lorica at major venues. He graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill where he helped pay his way as a radio news reporter.
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Sarah & Victor Lytvinenko - Designers
The founders of Raleigh Denim, Sarah and Victor Lytvinenko found their hand-stitching, hard-working ethos paralleled in the disappearing denim mills of their native North Carolina. Their handcrafted jeans are crafted on vintage machines using denim only from Cone Mill's White Oak plant. Perfecting their skills with guidance from old school masters, Barney's New York took notice and the brand quickly became one of their best sellers. Other exclusive retailers, including shops in London, Amsterdam and Tokyo soon followed suit and Raleigh Denim can now be found worldwide. Sarah and Victor have opened a store, the Curatory, in their Raleigh Denim Workshop. They are from Raleigh and are graduates of N.C. State University.www.raleighworkshop.com
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John Mauceri - Conductor/Chancellor, NC School of the Arts
John Mauceri is the Chancellor of the UNC School of the Arts and Founding Director of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra. Mauceri's distinguished and extraordinary career has brought him not only to the world's greatest opera companies and symphony orchestras, but also to the musical stages of Broadway and Hollywood, as well as the most prestigious halls of academia. Regarded as the world's leading performer of the music of Hollywood's émigré composers, he has taken the lead in the preservation and performance of many kinds of music and has supervised/conducted premieres by composers as diverse as Debussy, Stockhausen, Korngold, Bernstein, Hindemith, Elfman, Ives, and Shore. As an accomplished recording artist, Mauceri has over 70 albums to his name, and is the recipient of Grammy, Tony, Olivier, Drama Desk, Edison, Cannes Classique, Billboard, two Diapasons d'Or, two Emmys, and four Deutsche Schallplatten Awards. www.johnmauceri.com
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Joe Newberry - Musician
Joe Newberry is a Missouri native and North Carolina transplant who has played music most of his life. Best known for his powerful and innovative banjo playing, he is a prizewinning guitarist, fiddler, and singer, as well. In addition, Joe's gift for songwriting is apparent in regular contributions to Big Medicine's repertoire, as well as showing up in the Bluegrass hit parade through covers of his songs by popular performers. Joe also can be found making music with Red Clay Rambler founders Bill Hicks, Mike Craver, and Jim Watson. When not working as a writer and editor, he does solo and studio work, and teaches and performs at festivals at home and abroad. www.bigmedmusic.com
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Lara O'Brien - Dancer
Lara O'Brien is an accomplished Principal with the Carolina Ballet. She grew up in Crystal Lake, Illinois, outside Chicago. She began dancing at the age of eight and trained with the School of Ballet Chicago and the School of American Ballet in New York City. In 2000, O'Brien was the Dance American National Cultural Exchange scholarship student and was chosen to train at the Royal Danish Ballet for two months. She joined Carolina Ballet in 2001 as a member of the corps de ballet, was made a soloist in 2004 and promoted to the rank of Principal in April of 2011. Ms. O'Brien has been performed many featured roles in Carolina Ballet's repertory including 'The Swan Queen' in Swan Lake, 'Juliet' in Romeo and Juliet, the 'Lilac Fairy' in Sleeping Beauty, 'Titania' in A Midsummer Night's Dream and the 'Sugar Plum Fairy' in The Nutcracker. She has also originated roles in works by Robert Weiss, Lynne Taylor-Corbett, Tyler Walters and Attila Bongar.
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Carlota Santana - Flamenco Dancer
Carlota Santana dominates the Spanish dance scene in New York City, playing sold-out seasons at the famous Joyce Theatre. She is the personification of the classic Flamenco dancer and uses her fit figure, long dark hair, and exquisite costumes to entrance the audience. Santana is the Artistic Director and founder of Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana and has been designated "The Keeper of Flamenco" by Dance Magazine in recognition of her commitment to creating new works and developing young artists and choreographers. She has dedicated her company to the mission of building bridges between cultures using the universal spirit of Flamenco. She spends part of the year in Madrid and part in Bahama, NC, where she devotes herself to arts education and teaching children and adults to appreciate dance. www.flamenco-vivo.org
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Anthony Ulinski - Visual Artist
Anthony Ulinski began his career in the arts as a studio furniture maker in 1976. His furniture and sculpture have been exhibited at the Smithsonian Craft Fair, the Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Fair, Funeria in San Francisco, and the John Elder Gallery in New York. In 1993, he began painting, working with Elizabeth Lentz, Jacob Cooley and Beverly McIver. Ulinski has had multiple solo shows since 2001 and regularly participates in juried and invitational group shows. His work has been featured in arts magazines and on book covers. His awards include painting fellowships at The Virginia Center for Creative Arts and Vermont Studio Center. Ulinski has taught woodworking and painting workshops at Penland School of Crafts, Arrowmont School of Crafts in Tennessee, Peters Valley Craft Center in New Jersey, Pocosin Arts Center in Columbia, North Carolina, and East Carolina University. He is married to author Kim Church. www.anthonyulinski.com
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Kim Church - Author
Born and reared in Lexington, North Carolina, Kim earned her English degree from UNC- Greensboro and her law degree from UNC-Chapel Hill. She studied fiction writing with Jill McCorkle, Patricia Henley, and Angela Davis-Gardner. Kim's stories appear in Shenandoah, Mississippi Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Prime Number Magazine, North Carolina Literary Review, Northern Lights, and other journals, and have been anthologized in Flash Fiction Forward (W.W. Norton), The Great Books Foundation Short Story Omnibus, Racing Home (Paper Journey Press), and other collections. A Pushcart Prize nominee, Kim has received fellowships from the North Carolina Arts Council, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Vermont Studio Center. She recently completed her first book, Byrd, a novel in vignettes and letters. Kim is now at work on Mill Mothers' Song, a historical novel set during the Gastonia Textile Strike of 1929. She lives with her husband, artist Anthony Ulinski, in Raleigh, where she practices law, reviews books for the Raleigh News & Observer, and teaches writing. She has taught high school and college students, as well as at-risk students in homeless shelters and prisons, including the women on North Carolina's death row. www.kimchurch.com
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Elizabeth Wiegand - Food Writer
Elizabeth Wiegand is the author of THE OUTER BANKS COOKBOOK: Recipes & Traditions from NC's Barrier Islands, and THE NEW BLUE RIDGE COOKBOOK: Authentic Recipes from North Carolina's Mountains to Virginia's Highlands. She has been written articles for The Washington Post, Southern Living, Our State, Edible Piedmont and other regional publications. She is a blogger at Carolina Foodie, which includes recipes and road trips, eating at dives and on white tablecloths, visiting farmers markets and seafood stalls, and talking to the butcher, the baker and the vinegar maker. A farmer's daughter, she enjoys sailing, scuba diving and hiking. She is member of Slow Food and Southern Foodways Alliance and is a former special education teacher. She received degrees from the UNC- Chapel Hill and NC State University and resides in Raleigh. www.elizabethwiegand.com
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