Mark Lamster – Architectural Critic of the Dallas Morning News
Mark Lamster is the architectural critic of the Dallas Morning News, a Loeb Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and a professor in the architecture school at the University of Texas at Arlington. He is the author of several books, and is currently at work on a biography of the late architect Philip Johnson.
Shane Pennington – Aurora Co-Founder, Creative Director
Shane Pennington is a Dallas-based artist and co-founder of Aurora. The brainchild of Pennington, Aurora is the largest outdoor new media art festival in the U.S., which debuted in the Dallas Arts District in Oct 2011. In his art practice, his use of many media and textures, from painting and sculpture to digital video, allows for a diverse artistic language. The resultant works conjure an energy that reflects upon life, death and universal consciousness.