Guest Speakers

Ultan Guilfoyle - Thursday Fluid Art @ 5:00pm & Friday Fluid Art @ 8:00pm

Ultan Guilfoyle is an award-winning producer, director and writer whose films have appeared on HBO, Bravo and PBS in the United States. Working with the late director Sydney Pollack, Guilfoyle’s film Sketches of Frank Gehry, was an Official Selection of the Cannes Film Festival. His Eight Short Films on Frank Gehry opened in Hong Kong in May 2009.In 1998, Guilfoyle was invited to curate the landmark exhibition The Art of the Motorcycle at the Guggenheim Museum. The exhibition was inaugurated in New York, to enormous critical and popular acclaim and subsequently toured to the Guggenheim Bilbao and the Guggenheim Las Vegas, achieving a total attendance of over 2 million visitors, placing it among the top five museum exhibitions ever held.

Eric Rudd - Saturday Change Happens @ 5:30pm

Artist Eric Rudd is a well-known sculptor/mixed media artist. His work is in many museums and private collections in the United States, Europe and Asia. Originally from Washington D.C., his studio in the Historic Beaver Mill, North Adams, MA is one of the largest private art studios in the U.S. He works with new technological processes and materials including robotics, theme-park technology, industrial spray polyurethanes and blow molded polycarbonates. He is the creator of the Dark Ride Project and A Chapel for Humanity. He co-founded Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts’ Center for Robotic Arts and is currently working on the Night Garden of the Hesperides, a huge environment of interactive, robotic creatures.

Heather Purcell - Saturday Design Thinking @ 6:00pm

Heather Purcell is the Executive Director of Design Onscreen, a Denver-based non-profit organization dedicated to the production and preservation of high-quality films on architecture and design. Before joining Design Onscreen, Heather spent twelve years as an attorney specializing in media and entertainment law, representing independent television and film producers, as well as print, cable, radio, TV and cable enterprises. Heather is a graduate of Stanford University and the University of Texas School of Law.