Born in the Bronx, NY, in 1974, Angel Abreu is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice blends painting, literature, and education to reimagine how visual art can be a catalyst for personal and social transformation. 

Xavier Acarín Wieland is a curator working at the intersection of performance, architecture, and art. His projects have addressed issues related to object performativity, material culture, precarity and globalization, architecture and dance histories, and radical thought.

Haseeb Ahmed (b. 1985, US) is a research-based artist living and working in Brussels, Belgium. He produces objects, site-specific installations, films, and writes for various publications. 

Respected journalist, influential Instagrammer, and the former longtime editor of ARTnews, Robin Cembalest specializes in professional training and career development.

Dr. Jeremy Cohan is a sociologist who works on critical social theory, political economy, psychoanalysis, US education, and social movements.

Deanna Evans is an art curator and dealer who runs Deanna Evans Projects in New York City.

In 2001, Lia Gangitano founded PARTICIPANT INC, a not-for-profit art space.

Beatrice Glow is an interdisciplinary artist leveraging participatory performance, painting, experiential technology collaborations, olfactory art and sculptural installations to shift dominant narratives.

Thyrza Nichols Goodeve, PhD, is an art writer and hobby cartoodlist who writes “with” rather than “on” contemporary art and artists. 

Katya Grokhovsky is a Ukrainian-born interdisciplinary artist, educator, and Founding Director of The Immigrant Artist Biennial. Her work explores displacement, and the complexities of identity, memory, and belonging.

Allison Hewitt Ward is an art critic working in the unfinished project of modernity. She is a founding editor of Caesura and her work has appeared in Even Magazine, the Brooklyn Rail, and the New York Review of Architecture.

Miatta Kawinzi is a multi-disciplinary artist and writer of Liberian and Kenyan heritage. Her work explores cultural hybridity, diasporic temporalities, and the re-imagining of internal and external landscapes.

Iviva Olenick is a Brooklyn-based artist and educator. She translates family and historic myths into beaded, embroidered, dyed and painted textiles intersecting poetry and portraiture.

Phil Rabovsky (b. 1987, Moscow) makes large-scale paintings that explore history, texture, endings and beginnings.

David A. Ross is an art museum professional and educator. His fifty-year career includes directorships at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, the Whitney Museum of American Art and at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.  

Heather Schatz is an artist, educator, and proponent of Artist Thinking. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Master of Fine Arts from Columbia University's School of the Arts. 

Sarah G. Sharp holds an MFA and an MA in Modern and Contemporary Art, Criticism and Theory from Purchase College, SUNY.

Jacquelyn Strycker is a Brooklyn-based artist working the boundaries of painting, drawing, printmaking and textiles to make collages and soft sculptures that explore concepts of home, play, reality, and authenticity.

Keioui Keijaun Thomas creates live performance and multimedia installations that address blackness outside of a codependent, binary structure of existence. Her work investigates the histories, symbols, and images that construct notions of Black identity within black personhood.

Nicolas Touron is a storyteller. Born in France, he graduated from the Gerrit Rietvelt Academy in Amsterdam before coming to the USA with a Fulbright grant to complete an MFA at School of Visual Art.

TUG Collective (Gustavo Aguilar and Gaelyn Aguilar) braids together creativity (making of art), critique (critical reflection), and citizenship (connection to community) through interdisciplinary art practice.

Andrew Paul Woolbright lives in Brooklyn, NY and is an MFA graduate from the Rhode Island School of Design.