Bruce
Walters, Writer and Director
Professor
and artist. Walters recently created a series of videos in conjunction with the
Smithsonian exhibition ”NASA | 50 Years of Exploration” that were projected across
the entire width of the Figge Art Museum and displayed prominently at the State
Historical Museum, Des Moines, and the Contemporary Art Center of Peoria. Other
recent work has been included in exhibitions and presentations at the Russian Cultural
Center in Memphis, TN; Tate Modern, London; Uster Festival of Art & Design,
Belfast; and the Geddes Institute for Urban Research, University of Dundee,
Scotland.
J. Douglas
Miller, Collaborator and Producer
Founder, Motion
Pictures Midwest. Field producer for SUGAR, a Sundance Film
Festival Grand Prize nominee (2008), winner, National Board of Review Top
Independent Film Award (2009) and AFI Movie of the Year Award (2010). And for
The Mississippi: River of Song, a five part, Smithsonian multimedia series for the PBS Network; production director for
six Aurelio De Laurentiis and Pupi Avati films - Cannes (1991) and Venice (1992) Film
Festival nominations and multi award winners. In addition, Miller has
worked, coordinated, promoted and/or produced various projects with such entertainment figures as Cary Grant, Bob Hope, Milton Berle, Lauren
Bacall, Burl Ives, Pearl Bailey,
Louis Bellson, Harry Belafonte, Hogie Carmichael Jr., Arthur Fiedler, Ella
Fitzgerald, Dizzie Gillespie, Ramsey Lewis, Wynton Marsalis, Leon Russell and Lalo Schifrin.
James
Schmedding, Interactive Designer
Professional experience
in user interface design, web development, management and marketing as well as in
3D animation and modeling.
Additional creative team contributors:
Dr.
John Cooper, professor and jazz artist and composer who performs with his
quartet, with the Johnny Trudell Orchestra, with jazz artists -including Jon
Faddis, Carl Fontana, Jim McNeely, Clark Terry, John Fedchock, David Liebman,
Gary Foster, Alan Vizutti, James Moody, J. C. Heard, Duffy Jackson, Chico
O'Ferrill, Jiggs Wigham Terry Gibbs, Slide Hampton, Ken Watters, and other
national touring acts -including Aretha Franklin, Rosemary Clooney, Jerry
Lewis, The Temptations, The Nelson Riddle Orchestra, Martha Reeves and the
Vandellas, and Lou Rawls.
Dr.
Hoyet H. Hemphill, interactivity coordinator, Professor
who has an extensive publishing and presentation record in technology,
psychology and cross-cultural study.
Dr.
John Hallwas, Distinguished Professor Emeritus and author of The Bootlegger:
A Story of Small-Town America and other award-winning historical books on
the American Midwest.
Dr.
Sherry Lindquist, assistant-professor who has research interests and
publications on the social history of art and cultural exchange.
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