More about The Artists 

Shawn Camp grew up in Coeur dʼ Alene, Idaho and completed an MFA in Painting and Printmaking at Virginia Commonwealth University in 1997. He then set out exploring, art-making, and exhibiting throughout the United States and abroad as an artist and musician. He settled in Austin, Texas where he works in his studio and teaches at Texas State University and Austin Community College.

His paintings and multimedia works have been shown throughout Texas and in New York, Tokyo, and Los Angeles, along with many other locales, and are included in numerous public and private collections. They explore the compulsion to find meaning in disorder through a textured expanse of color, light, and sound.

"I make paintings that explore the boundary between the physical and the transcendent.  Each is an aesthetic reaction to our tendency to comprehend reality through an elaborate construction of systems and precepts that divide our experience into diametric poles of existence."

Sophie Mathieu is a composer and cellist based in Austin, TX. She specializes in creating ambient, ethereal, and immersive works about vast, expansive places in the natural world. Her music has won her numerous awards, including her orchestral work, moons, which received an ASCAP Morton Gould award. Sophie has collaborated with ensembles across the US, including Alarm Will Sound, yMusic, and Eighth Blackbird. She was the 2024 Draylen Mason Composer in Residence at KMFA Classical 89.5, Austin’s classical music radio station. As a performer, Sophie eagerly engages with any type of music making that is hands-on and fun. She regularly appears with Less Than Ten and Density512, as well as the Austin-based folk band Middle Sattre and the indie-alternative band Maru Haru. Sophie is passionate about teaching and is the director of a free composition youth program in Austin. Outside of music, she enjoys cooking plant-based food, playing Sid Meier's Civilization, and watching horror films in her free time.

Danielle Kirklin is a composer whose music is described as contemplative, sentimental, and blossoming. She has composed for a variety of musicians including Austin Community College faculty and New Music Ensemble. She is also an aspiring film composer and a new member of Howdy Gals that put on live shows for local bands. Danielle is most likely listening to the soundtrack of the last movie she watched. She enjoys Noah baumbach films, the scores from C’mon C’mon and Marriage story, coffee shops, going on walks, and playing guitar.

Sam Wheeler is a multi-instrumentalist specializing in percussion and electronics base out of Austin, Texas. Sam is an active performer in Austin’s vibrant live music scene playing with acts such as the indie-orchestral rock band Maru Haru, the Austin Percussion Collective, and Ensemble Soundmap. Sam also performs as a solo artist playing electroacoustic percussion music by himself and other Austin-based musicians such as Sophie Mathieu and Sebastian Zhang. He maintains a robust private lesson studio in the Leander School district where he has been teaching since 2020. Music education has been a passion of Sam’s since he began teaching percussion in his home state of Oregon in 2014.