Jared Steffensen is an artist and curator who currently resides in Salt Lake City, where he is the Curator of Exhibitions at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art. He earned his BFA in Intermedia Sculpture from the University of Utah in 2002, and an MFA from The University of Texas at Austin in 2006, where he was also a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant. His work has been exhibited throughout the United States as well as in Mexico, Germany and The Netherlands.

William S. Phillips is well known for his landscape and aviation paintings. He initially did not intend to become an artist, but when he sold four paintings in one afternoon at an airport restaurant he decided to pursue art as his career.