Xan Peters
Xan Peters grew up in Clearwater, FL in his mother’s art gallery and studio.
Always drawing dinosaurs and other extinct animals as a child, he moved to Bozeman, MT to study fine art and museum studies at MSU. His knowledge of paleontology brought him to work as the resident artist for the Carter County Museum in Ekalaka, MT. He received his MFA from the SMFA at Tufts University where he has taught as a teaching fellow.
He now teaches art at UT and SPC.
Allison Hilgert
Allison Hilgert was born a nature lover in the small town of Crystal River, Florida. She grew up playing among cypress trees, weaving crowns and scepters from palmetto branches. When she wasn’t outside, she was either dreaming or painting with her mother, a local artist. After graduating from Ringling College of Art and Design with a BFA she worked as a graphic designer until her love of painting returned her to the wilderness of Florida. Inspired by the intriguing shadows, textures, and overlooked found things, she manipulates human form into magical, somber, and sometimes terrifying dream-like elements.
