CONTRIBUTORS
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LAUREN
CHRISTENSEN
With more than 16
years of experience in
advertising and marketing, Lauren consults
with clients in art, real
estate, fashion, and
publishing through L.
Christensen Marketing & Design. Lauren
helped establish the
Dallas Art Fair brand
as its first marketing director handling spon-sorships, marketing
and design. She serves
on the boards of the
Christensen Family
Foundation and Helping Our Heroes. Her
clean, contemporary
aesthetic and generous
spirit make Lauren the
perfect choice to art
direct Patron.
NANCY MYERS
As a Dallas-based
writer and editor with
strong ties to the art
world, Nancy covers a
variety of topics, from
art and architecture
to travel and home
design for publications including The
Architect’s Newspaper,
The Land Report, and
360 West Weddings. An
SMU Meadows School
of the Arts alum, she
finds contributing to
Patron a natural fit.
LAUREN SMART
Lauren holds a
master’s degree in
arts journalism from
Syracuse University
and is a member of
the American Theatre
Critics Association.
She works as Klyde
Warren Park’s communications specialist
and moonlights as an
arts writer and critic
for The Dallas Morning
News, American Theatre,
Arts + Culture, Theater
Jones, and others.
BRANTON ELLERBEE
Contributing pho-
tographer (“A Good
Year,” page 84)
Branton notes: “I have
always been fascinated
by chefs and their
ability to transform
food and ingredients
from one state to
a mouth-watering
other. After fumbling
around in the kitchen
for so many years, not
only has the fascina-
tion deepened, but
morphed into envy,
and eventual respect.
When asked by Patron
to photograph the top
chefs of Dallas for the
spring issue, I could
not help but welcome
the invitation.”
STEVE CARTER
This issue finds the
arts writer close to
home and way out
west—the Dallas
Museum of Art and
the Nasher Sculpture
Center, by way of the
Los Angeles County
Museum of Art.
Carter looks at the
“new ecology” of the
DMA (page 52), an
era that began in 2012
with the arrival of
Eugene McDermott
Director Dr. Maxwell
Anderson. A year later,
the changes keep coming, bigger and better
than ever. And Carter’s
feature on the Ken
Price sculpture exhibition (page 60), opening
this month at the
Nasher, has its roots
in California; Carter
visited the LACMA
opening of the show
in September. Highly
recommended.
NAN COULTER
Nan Coulter has had
solo exhibitions of her
work at The Cleveland
Museum of Art and
the Carpenter Center
for the Visual Arts at
Harvard University,
where her pictures,
War Decor: Photographs
in America, were
exhibited in the only
building built by Le
Corbusier in the U.S.
For this issue, she
captures the wave of
the future at the Dallas
Museum of Art under
the direction of new
Eugene McDermott
Director Dr. Max
Anderson (page 52).
FARAH FLEURIMA
Words have always
formed the heart of
Farah’s professional
and personal interests.
A past contributor
to The Dallas Morning
News and Us Weekly,
she now writes saucy
yet authoritative
reports on food,
fashion, and festivities for her website
TheDallasDiva.com.
This month’s piece
on five restaurants
that rose into culinary
prominence in 2012
(page 84) demanded
an eye for each chef’s
particular stylistic
contributions. “These
restaurants represent
the city’s best dining
experiences, so a key
component was the
unique allure of their
finest dishes.”
HOLLY HABER
Holly is a freelance
writer and editor who
feels that everyone has
a story. She writes a
lot about fun stuff—
fashion, beauty, arts,
fitness, recreation, and
travel—but also tackles
serious news focused
on the economy and
business. For this
issue, she reveals the
back-story and future
plans of Dallas Black
Dance Theatre (page
42) while spotlighting
the women who built
it into an invaluable
community asset and
exhilarating visual delight. “I’m embarrassed
to admit that I had not
seen DBDT in years
and wow, have I been
missing out,” she says.
“They are so exciting
to watch, and their
contemporary works
make you ponder life,
love, joy, conflict...If
that isn’t great art, I
don’t know what is.”
PATRICIA MORA
In this issue, Ms. Mora
discusses art with Quin
Mathews, a fascinating
and well-spoken expert
on all things cultural
(page 46). She also ex-
plores the 2013 Dallas
Art Fair (page 66) and,
through conversations
with some of the most
astute experts in the
country, offers insight
into which emerg-
ing artists are ones to
watch.
ALLISON V. SMITH
Allison worked as a
photojournalist for
seven newspapers over
15 years after graduat-
ing from SMU with a
degree in journalism.
Her clients include
Texas Monthly, The New
York Times, Garden &
Gun, University of
Southern California,
and the Communities
Foundation of Texas.
Allison’s work is in the
permanent collections
of the Dallas Museum
of Art, the Museum
of Fine Arts in Hou-
ston, and the Savannah
College of Art and
Design in Atlanta. She
is represented by the
Barry Whistler Gallery
in Dallas and Hiram
Butler Gallery in
Houston.
