Dave Lucas

Dave Lucas

Dave Lucas is hesitant to talk about what made him a poet. He’s concerned he might just be restating his youthful experiences to align with the lives of other writers he’s studied. A thoughtful analyst of life, he knows he could have easily become a geographer like his father, who spent hours with his son […]

Paul Westlake, Jr. FAIA

Paul Westlake

Paul Westlake is a Senior Principal and Lead Designer of DLR Group, an integrated multi-disciplinary design firm with 30 offices worldwide. Paul is one of the youngest architects ever to be elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) in the category of design, and received a state level Gold […]

Victoria Bussert

Victoria Bussert

Victoria Bussert began her journey to directing professionally at age seven. Slightly less glamorous, her stage then – complete with a blanket hung on a clothesline for a curtain – was located in the basement of her family’s home in Munster, Indiana. “I always knew I wanted to direct,” states the high-energy Director, Music Theatre […]

Dominic Moore-Dunson

Dominic Moore-Dunsen

Characterizing himself as “one of those siblings who just wanted to do everything his older sister did,” Dominic Moore-Dunson started dancing at three because he tagged along when Nakiasha took her classes. “My mom put me in a tap class so I could make a bunch of noise and be tired when I came home so I’d […]

Brent Kee Young

Brent Kee Young

As a medium both for elegant expression and for useful everyday objects, glass has been around for thousands of years, as any visit to the fascinating glass museums in Toledo, Ohio, or Corning, New York, will attest. But it has only been in the last 50 years—the blink of an eye in the history of art—that the […]