Justin Robinson is a Grammy award-winning musician and vocalist, cultural preservationist, and historic foodways expert.
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Cofounder and Lead instructor of JB Media Institute and President of Creative Original, Inc Sarah Benoit has worked in the web design, SEO, and social media fields since 2003 and has been teaching classes on related subjects since 2006.
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The artist and photographer Viviane D'Avilla, was born in the city of Rio de Janeiro and holds a degree in journalism, specializing in photojournalism.
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A native of Wagram, North Carolina, John Memory formed the folk-singing trio The Huntsmen in the Spring of 1962 while an undergrad at Wake Forest University.
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The lone entry in David S. Mull’s discography is a doozie—the self-released 45 “Far From Home” b/w “Some Guys Have All The Luck,” recorded in 1974 at David Rumsfeld’s Country Roads Studios in Marion, NC.
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Through the use of overdubs and overnight openings at far flung recording studios, Dan Lewis created the provate-press masterpiece, Towards the Light in 1979—one of only a handful of purely local musical artifacts that document Asheville’s underground music scene during the ’70s.
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Matt Arnett is an art historian, filmmaker, music producer, and curator, whose primary interest is in the art and culture of the African American South.
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Ellen’s passion for the medium of film is the result of both her personal journey and her professional career as a film development and acquisitions executive and producer. For more than 20 years, Ellen has worked at screening, programming, acquiring, developing and producing films.
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River Whyless, the North Carolina-bred folk-rock outfit has discovered their evolution is a subtler albeit monumentally important one.
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Shaye Moessner is the Director of Markets & Strategies for SameSide, the platform for activism through music, arts, and culture.
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Ehren Cruz is the Artistic Director & Co-Event Director for LEAF Community Arts, a non-profit that has for 24 years has served WNC with a mission to connect cultures, create community, and enrich lives through music & arts.
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Ashley Cooper believes in the goodness of humans — in our abilities to collaboratively address the complex challenges we face and care for one another along the way.
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Ashley Cooper believes in the goodness of humans — in our abilities to collaboratively address the complex challenges we face and care for one another along the way.
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Ben Rekhi is an award-winning filmmaker of mixed Indian and American descent. After working with the Coen bros. in the camera department of O Brother, Where Art Thou? Rekhi was hired by George Clooney to shoot the behind the scenes for Confessions of a Dangerous Mind.
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Lana Garland has worked as a Creative Director, Director, and Writer/Producer in television and film in the US and Europe, creating content for HBO, BET, and ESPN in America, and TV2 in Denmark.
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Alli Marshall is the the arts editor of the Asheville-based alternative newsweekly Mountain Xpress. She’s also a poet, fiction writer, and spoken word artist. She’s the author of the 2015 novel How to Talk to Rockstars, the 2017 chapbook It All Comes Rushing Back, and a number of zines.
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Brenda Lunsford Lilly is a professor in the Film and Television Program at Western Carolina University where she served as Interim Director in 2014 and has directed a number of stage productions.
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In 2016, Capone returned to her hometown of Asheville, NC to record her first solo EP Orbit at Echo Mountain Recording Studios. Following the release of Orbit, Capone achieved notable success; she was named New Song Music's LEAF Festival Singer-Songwriter winner, performed alongside Andy Palmer at Kennedy Center and competed in New Song Music's songwriting competition at Lincoln Center. She has opened for such artists as Kevin Devine, Nicole Atkins, Erika Wennerstrom and Mason Jennings. She’s performed at Leaf Festival, Asheville Pride, and was the winner of 2017's New Song Singer-Songwriter Competition.
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Kate Maloney, PhD is the CEO & Producer of WeRiseUP The Movie and Movement that features the United Nations and key global leaders.
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John Whitehead earns his living making documentaries for public television and videos for non-profit organizations.
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