Hampton Rodriguez was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic in 1968. He studied illustration and Fine Arts from 1993 to 1994 at the Altos de Chavon School of Design, an affiliate of the Parson School of Design in New York. He completed several group exhibitions in his home country before moving to Barcelona, Spain, to continue his studies and development as an artist. Not only that, but he studied 2 and 3 Dimensional Design at IJ TTA Design School in Barcelona from 1996 2000. He participated in group and solo exhibitions in Spain, Belgium,
Cuba, and the Dominican Republic during this time. After returning to Santo Domingo briefly, He moved to Portland at the end of 2000. Since then Hampton continues to make art and has had manyother featured public art pieces in different places in Oregon; including Portland, Beaverton, and Hillsboro. He now resides in Portland, OR with an art studio/gallery in SE Portland.

Born in Mexico City.
He completed his professional studies at the Study Center University of Human Sciences, specializing in Literature and Communication.
Subsequently, he studied Journalism at the UNAM and obtained the Federal Radio and Television Announcer License at the General Directorate of Educational Television of the SEP. He has a diploma in Sports Business Administration from the National Sports Commission.
He worked for 20 years at the Mexican Social Security Institute, in the Departments of Finance and Social Communication. He was part of the Morelense Radio and Television System and the ABC Radio station in Mexico City.

Sarmiento has collaborated in different commercial, state and community radio organizations
both in Mexico and in the USA. Arturo has lived in Salem, OR for more than 20 years where the broadcast of the Hispanidades program begins on the KMUZ station. He currently works as Director of Radio Poder 98.3 FM KTUP. He is a member of the Institute of Oregonian Culture with the title of Councilor.

In the literary field, Arturo began writing poetry in his adolescence, participating in several contests in his native Mexico. His poetic training takes place in different workshops directed by the poets Héctor Carreto, Francisco Hernández and Rolando Rosas Galicia. His poems have been published in magazines and newspapers. As a poet he has participated in live readings and radio and television programs. In his journey through Oregonian poetry, he has collaborated with poets from various communities and has actively participated in the dissemination and promotion of poetry in Spanish. In 2017, Sarmiento won second place in the First Oregonian Poetry Contest, sponsored by the Oregonian Culture Institute.