Sandy Edwards is the senior director of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Prior to Crystal Bridges, Edwards and her late husband, Clay, served as the management team for University…

Raised in Texas by an Italian mother, Flaminia Chapman moved to Rome in the early 2000s to work as a tour guide alongside her mother and brother and younger sister,…

David Hanlon is a composer, conductor, and pianist. Achampion of contemporary music, Hanlon has taken part in many notable premieres such as the world premiere and recording of Ted Hearne’s…

Lynn Randolph is a Houston-based artist who has exhibited her work widely in Texas and throughout the U.S. She was a fellow at the Radcliffe Center for Advanced Study. Her…

James Hollis received his doctorate from Drew University and taught humanities for 26 years in various colleges and universities before retraining as a Jungian analyst at the C. G. Jung…

Robert L. Patten, the Lynette S. Autrey Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Rice University, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London,…

Jim Nelson is a former professional dancer who moved into nonprofit administration in 2000, when he became Houston Ballet's general manager, before being named executive director of the company in…

Sasha West’s poems have appeared in the Southern Review, Ninth Letter, Forklift, Ohio, Third Coast, Born, and elsewhere. She holds graduate degrees from Johns Hopkins University and the University of…

Ed Hirsch serves as president of the John S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and lives in New York. As a beloved member of the University of Houston Creative Writing faculty, he…

Jane Curtis is an experienced landscape architect who was most recently the Director of Horticulture, Hermann Park Conservancy. Previously, she worked as a landscape architect on various commercial and residential…