Born in 1941 in Tacoma, Washington, Dale Chihuly was introduced to glass while studying interior design at the University of Washington. After graduating in 1965, Chihuly enrolled in the first glass program in the country, at the University of Wisconsin. He continued his studies at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), where he later established the glass program and taught for more than a decade.
Photography, oddly enough is not the reason I am a photographer. I did not start taking pictures as a child, nor hold my first camera when I was 3. I am however, an artist, and as an artist I have chosen to use my camera to satisfy my curiosity for the world and all that I love about it.
Celebrated by The Democrat and Chronicle as "an artist of vision" and a “percussion genius… presenting percussion in a stunning, thoughtful way,” Peter Ferry [b. 1991] is a young American solo percussionist advancing the classical and contemporary repertoire.
Broadway actress Christine Toy Johnson has become the role model she never had growing up as an Asian-American aspiring towards a career in the performing arts. Born and bred in the suburbs of New York City, Christine was a performer from an early age. She began modeling when she was four for national campaigns such as Buster Brown, Life Cereal and Scotchguard.
Composer/vocalist/violinist/writer Julien Touafek fuses diverse musical and artistic aesthetics with a 21st century sense of entrepreneurship to communicate, innovate, and inspire creativity as a means to success.