Pianist Anne-Marie McDermott has been Artistic Director of the Bravo! Vail Music Festival since 2011. She enjoys performing, recording,
James Baker is a photographer, writer, and educator. In 1975, he received a graduate degree in photography from the Rhode Island School of Design
David E. Yust was born April 3, 1939 in Wichita, Kansas. He studied with Birger Sandzén in 1951 and at Wichita State Univ. from 1957-59. He
Vladimir Yavachev was born in Sofia, Bulgaria in 1973. At 17 he moved to New York City to study film at NYU and work for his uncle Christo. He
Wolfgang Volz is one of the world’s premier landscape photographers. He has worked with Christo and Jeanne-Claude as the exclusive photographer
Jonathan Henery is Jeanne-Claude’s nephew has worked with the artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude since the 1990s. He has a BA from Fordham
Jerry Saltz is the senior art critic at New York Magazine and its entertainment site Vulture.com, a leading voice in the art world at large, and
Melanie Kirkpatrick is a writer-journalist based in Connecticut and a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C. She contributes
Catharine R. Franklin specializes in the history of the nineteenth-century United States Army with an emphasis on indigenous peoples and the
Dr. Sarah Kurnick is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Colorado Boulder. She is an anthropological archaeologist
Timothy James Standring, curator emeritus, Denver Art Museum has lectured widely throughout the United States and Europe. He has curated more
RJ Rushmore has explored contemporary art as a writer, curator, photographer, arts administrator, critic and fan. His work focuses on street art,
