Cyan Meeks integrates filmmaking, photography, sound design, performance, social practice, curation, and media study into her practice. Her works have been exhibited internationally, including Sundance, New Films Festival at MoMA, Deuxieme Manifestation International Video et Art Electronique, Glasgow World of Film International, Dumbo Film Festival, and the Nelson-Atkins Museum. She has received first-place awards from the American Film Institute, Amsterdam International, and the New York Film Festival. Meeks received her B.F.A. degree in new media from the Kansas City Art Institute and completed her M.F.A. degree in media studies at the State University of New York.
Dr. Susan Mayo has been part of the musical landscape of Kansas for over 30 years and is active as a cellist, composer, and community arts organizer. Mayo has performed globally with both classical and alternative ensembles and is currently on the faculty of Friends University in Wichita, Kansas, music director for both Symphony in the Flint Hills fall event Woodfest, and Prairie Muses, a nonprofit dedicated to bringing the arts to rural audiences, program and artistic director of Flint Hills Counterpoint (an ecology arts project based in Marion County Kansas), and board chair of the Historic Sunflower Theatre.