Katie Angermeier Haab, a Kansan, holds an MFA in fiction from Texas State University where she also served as writer-in-residence at the Katherine Anne Porter Literary Center, hosting the Visiting Writers Series. Later, she was Executive Director of Austin Bat Cave (ABC), a children's literary nonprofit where she still serves on the board. She relocated to London with her daughter and husband, where she helped to launch a The Second Shelf, a feminist books venture, but will soon be making her way back to Austin. She writes fiction and non-fiction.

Horace D. Ballard, Ph.D. is the assistant curator at the Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA) and part of the faculty consortium for the graduate program in the History of Art at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts. He has held prior positions the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD); the Yale University Art Gallery; the Birmingham Museum of Art; and Monticello/Thomas Jefferson Foundation. He also serves as a freelance writer and consultant on modern and contemporary American art.

Michael Barraco is an independent curator and artist based in New York’s Hudson Valley. Barraco focuses on the intersections of art and technology, integrative ecology, and pedagogy as a catalyst for social change. He currently serves as Director of Education at Hudson Valley MOCA which entails curation of public programming, in-house exhibitions, and oversight of community partnerships. Recent curatorial projects include Bleeding Edge a new media-focused exhibition featuring Faith Holland, Eleanor King, and Amanda Turner Pohan. In 2018 Barraco initiated and organized BLACKOUT: an experimental film program featuring Tommy Hartung, Kate Gilmore, Loretta Fahrenholz, and Steffani Jemison. Barraco has participated in residencies at SOMA (Mexico City) as well as the Ayatana Research Program (Nova Scotia). His work was recently included in the Arts Westchester Triennial (White Plains, NY) and exhibitions at The University of New Mexico, Flux Factory, Stamford Museum, and Emergency Arts, Las Vegas.

Barbara Bourland is the author of the critically acclaimed I’ll Eat When I’m Dead, a Refinery29 Best Book of 2017 and an Irish Independent Book of the Year. People called I’ll Eat When I’m Dead “delectable.” Wednesday Martin, bestselling author of Primates of Park Avenue and Untrue, deemed it “a deft, smart, and hilarious debut.” Kirkus noted that “death by beauty was never so much fun,” and the book was featured in Fortune, Us Weekly, and The New York Post, among others. I’ll Eat When I’m Dead is now available in paperback, and is forthcoming in Hebrew from Matar Press in Israel. Bourland is a former freelance writer and web producer for titles at Condé Nast and Hearst, among others. She lives in Baltimore with her husband and dog. Her second novel, Fake Like Me, is forthcoming in June 2019 from Grand Central Publishing in North America and from riverrun abroad. Fake Like Me was written with support from the Wassaic Project, where Bourland was a resident over the winter of 2017-2018.

Photo by Janelle Jones

Deanna Evans is a curator based in Brooklyn. Since 2017, she has curated many exhibitions in her apartment space, Deanna Evans Projects, with artists including Holly Coulis, Emily Mae Smith, Dana Powell, Nat Meade and many others. In addition, she has curated exhibitions at SPRING/BREAK Art Show, Morgan Lehman Gallery and Reservoir Art Space. Lastly, Deanna previously worked at Taymour Grahne Gallery and Johannes Vogt Gallery, both based in New York City and holds a MA in Art Business from Sotheby’s Institute of Art, New York.

Alexandra Foradas is a curator and producer based in North Adams, MA, specializing in modern and contemporary installation-based and intermedia art. Foradas is Curator at MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA, where she has organized and co-organized solo exhibitions by Taryn Simon (2018), Jenny Holzer (2017, 2019), Janice Kerbel (2017), and Gunnar Schonbeck (2017), as well as the group exhibition Bibliothecaphilia (2015). She has independently lectured, juried, and curated exhibitions at institutions including UMass Amherst, MassArt, Collar Works (Troy, NY), and RISD. Upcoming projects include the group exhibition Kissing through a Curtain (MASS MoCA 2020), which will bring together artists engaging with processes of translation.

Hanna Girma is a Curatorial Fellow at the Studio Museum in Harlem and MoMA. She previously worked as the Assistant Curator at The Mistake Room, Los Angeles. Exhibitions include Lost Wax (2016) and Analog Currency (2017). Her writing is featured in Kaleidoscope and Rhizome. She has contributed exhibition texts to in lieu, Los Angeles and has lectured at UCLA and the Museo Taller José Clemente Orozco.

Enrico Gomez is an artist and curator based in Jersey City, Hoboken, and New York City, who received his B.F.A. in Art with a concentration in Drawing from Arizona State University. He has exhibited at various venues including Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ, Marquee Projects, Bellport, NY, The Painting Center, New York, NY, Odetta Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Regina Rex, New York, NY, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, Children’s Museum of the Arts, New York, NY, Four Eleven Gallery, Provincetown, MA, The Mesa Contemporary Arts Center, Mesa, AZ, P.S.122 Gallery, New York, NY, and The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York, NY, among others. He and his work have been featured in various publications including The New Criterion, Hyperallergic, Art F City, Hamptons Art Hub, and The New York Times and he was named by Brooklyn Magazine one of the "100 Most Influential People in Brooklyn Culture". He is the Director of The Dorado Project, an independent curatorial and contemporary art compendium based in Hoboken, NJ; and is a founder/partner at PROTO GOMEZ (formerly known as M E N), a contemporary art gallery located in the Two Bridges neighborhood of New York, NY.

Gabriel de Guzman is Curator & Director of Exhibitions at Smack Mellon, where he organizes group and solo exhibitions that feature emerging and under-recognized mid-career artists whose work often explores critical, socially relevant issues. His present exhibition, EMPATHY (November 17–December 30, 2018), addresses the current divisive political climate, featuring artists who reveal a capacity for empathy, creating work that reflects on other’s experiences and values across social, political, and cultural divides. Before joining Smack Mellon’s staff in 2017, de Guzman was the Curator of Visual Arts at Wave Hill, organizing the Sunroom Project Space series for emerging artists and thematic group exhibitions in Wave Hill’s Glyndor Gallery. As a guest curator, he has presented recent exhibitions at BronxArtSpace, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, Rush Arts Gallery, En Foco at Andrew Freedman Home, Carriage Barn Arts Center, the Affordable Art Fair New York, Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance (NoMAA), and the Bronx Museum's 2013 AIM Biennial. Prior to Wave Hill, he was a curatorial assistant at The Jewish Museum (until 2010), where he coordinated exhibitions on Louise Nevelson, Harry Houdini, Joan Snyder, and Andy Warhol, as well as Schoenberg, Kandinsky, and the Blue Rider. His writings have been published in catalogues for Wave Hill, the Bronx Museum, Dorsky Gallery, BronxArtSpace, the Arsenal Gallery at Central Park, The Jewish Museum, Rush Arts Gallery, NoMAA, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, and the spring 2017 issue of Nueva Luz: Photographic Journal. He earned an M.A. in art history from Hunter College and a B.A. in art history from the University of Virginia.

Photo by Michael Hansen.

Anna Harsanyi is a curator, educator, and arts manager. Her participatory projects and exhibitions have taken place within public and alternative spaces, exploring themes of memory, cultural identity, and collective experience. She recently completed a project presenting artist engagements with the historic Essex Street Market in New York's Lower East Side. She co-curated Hot & Cold: Revolution in the Present Tense, a public art project in Timișoara and Cluj, Romania which presented three artist projects about the 25th anniversary of the Revolution that ended Communism. Most recently, Anna worked as the Project Manager for the Guggenheim Social Practice initiative at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

Richard Klein is a curator, artist, and writer. Since 1999 he has been Exhibitions Director at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, CT. In his two decade long career as a curator of contemporary art he has organized over 80 exhibitions, including solo shows of the work of Roy Lichtenstein, Janine Antoni, Sol LeWitt, Mark Dion, Michael Joo, Hank Willis Thomas, Brad Kahlhamer, Roy McMakin, Mary Temple, Jessica Stockholder, Tom Sachs, and Elana Herzog.  Major curatorial projects at The Aldrich have included Fred Wilson: Black Like Me (2006), No Reservations: Native American History and Culture in Contemporary Art (2006), Elizabeth Peyton: Portrait of an Artist (2008), Shimon Attie: MetroPAL.IS. (2011), Michael Joo: Drift (2014), Taylor Davis: If you steal a horse, and let him go, he’ll take you to the barn you stole him from (2014) and Alex Schweder & Ward Shelley: Your Turn (2017). His essays on art and culture have appeared in Cabinet Magazine and have been included in books published by Hatje Cantz, Damiani, Picturebox, Ridinghouse, and the University of Chicago Press, among others.

La Keisha Leek is an independent arts worker and writer.  Most recently she was Manager for the Kenan Project at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she worked with arts organizations, artists, educators and cultural planners to explore the impact of arts in and with communities through collective learnings, residencies and public engagement. Prior to The Met, she worked with creative and cultural organizations across Chicago to manage projects, and produce exhibitions, programs and individual artist projects in full-time and freelance capacities. She was a Gaylord & Dorothy Donnelley Foundation Curatorial Fellow (2016), Independent Curators International Curatorial Intensive participant in Dakar, Senegal, and a Chicago Artists Coalition HATCH Projects Curatorial Resident (2014-2015). Her publication How to Make A Hood (Candor Arts, 2015) is a collaborative meditation on the misconceptions of Black bodies and their environment, and lives as an extension of her 2014 exhibition of the same title. The publication has been acquired by special collections including The Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library, Yale University; Houghton Library, Harvard University; Pacific Northwest College of Art; and the New York Public Library amongst others. She received her BA in Art History from Columbia College Chicago.

Shaun Leonardo is a multidisciplinary artist whose work negotiates societal expectations of manhood — namely definitions surrounding black and brown masculinities — along with its notions of achievement, collective identity, and experience of failure. His performance practice, anchored by his work in Assembly — a diversion program for court-court-involved youth — is participatory in nature and invested in a process of embodiment, promoting the political potential of attention and discomfort as a means to disrupt meaning and shift perspective. Leonardo based in Brooklyn and from Queens, New York City. He received his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, is a recipient of support from Creative Capital, Guggenheim Social Practice, and A Blade of Grass, and was recently profiled in the New York Times. His work has been presented in galleries and institutions, nationally and internationally, and featured at The Guggenheim Museum, the High Line, Recess, and VOLTA NY. Leonardo joined Pratt Institute as the School of Art, Visiting Fellow, in fall 2018 and will remain on campus as the 2019 Project Third artist in residence.

Ashley Mayne (MFA Sarah Lawrence) is an author of novels, short stories, and poems. Her work has appeared in Post Road, Juked, The Doris, Fish And Game Quarterly, and Metambesen. She is currently hard at work on her latest novel, researching British witchcraft.

Lisa Panzera is the Director of the Shirley Piterman Art Center at the Borough of Manhattan Community College.

Prerana Reddy is Director of Programs at A Blade of Grass, a nonprofit that supports the field of socially engaged art through financial support for artists, public programming, and content creation. Previously she was the Director of Public Programs & Community Engagement for the Queens Museum from 2005-2018 where she organized screening, talks, festivals, exhibitions, and performances, many of which were developed in collaboration with diverse local community organizations and cultural producers.  She was also in charge of the museum's community engagement initiatives that combine arts and culture with social development goals in nearby neighborhoods predominately comprised of new immigrants. These included the museum's offsite immigrant arts & education center Immigrant Movement International and the design and ongoing programming of Corona Plaza. Reddy holds a master’s degree in Cinema Studies, with a focus on documentary and visual anthropology, from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.

Ali Rosa-Salas is Director of Programming at Abrons Arts Center/Henry Street Settlement. She develops the Center’s live programming, exhibitions, and residencies with Artistic Director Craig Peterson. As an independent curator, she has produced visual art exhibitions, performances, and public programs with AFROPUNK, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Danspace Project, Knockdown Center, MoCADA, Weeksville Heritage Center, and more. She has also organized discursive events as an Alumnae Fellow at the Barnard Center for Research on Women and as the Associate Curator of the 2017 American Realness Festival. She graduated from Barnard with a B.A. in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, with interdisciplinary concentrations in Dance and Race/Ethnic Studies and has an M.A. from the Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance at Wesleyan University. In addition to her role at Abrons, Ali supports electronic music DJs and producers as Special Projects Manager for Discwoman.

Jennifer Schmidt is a multi-disciplinary artist living in Brooklyn, NY, who works with print media, graphic design, and sound to create site-specific installations, video, and performances that question the role of visual iconography and repetitive actions within a given environment. She received her Master of Fine Arts degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Bachelor of Arts degrees in Studio Art and Art History from the University of Delaware; and is Chair of the Print, Paper, and Graphic Arts Department at SMFA @ Tufts University in Boston, MA. Recent exhibitions include: The Power Move with Laura Nova, Open Engagement 2018, Queens Museum, NY; 32. Biennial of Graphic Arts, International Centre for Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; International Print Center New York, NY; EFA Project Space, New York; and Boston Center for the Arts, MA. She is a fellow in Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts from the New York Foundation for the Arts, and is a grant recipient from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Jasmine Wahi is a curator, activist, and the Founder and Co-Director of Project For Empty Space. Her practice predominantly focuses on issues of female empowerment, complicating binary structures within social discourses, and exploring multi-positional cultural identities through the lens of intersectional feminism. Wahi is also on faculty at the School of Visual Arts: MFA Fine Arts, where she focuses on Intersectional Feminism and Art Praxis. Her curatorial work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Vogue, Vogue India, Hyperallergic, Whitewall, Artnet, and ARTnews to name a few.

Gee Wesley is an arts organizer born in Monrovia, Liberia and based in Brooklyn, New York where he is the Program Director of Recess. Wesley is faculty in the Curatorial Practice Masters program at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) and the 2019 Curatorial Fellow at the SculptureCenter where his exhibition Other Objects will open in January of 2019. Wesley is a founder and co-director of Ulises, a Philadelphia based bookshop and curatorial platform dedicated to artists’ books and independent art publications.

James Williams II is a curator and interdisciplinary artist whose work encompasses painting, sculpture and photography. His works center on topics of social and cultural identity in the United States tied together by self-portraiture and narration. His most recent project was curating the show, Whatchamacallit. The exhibition, accompanied with a publication, focused on superimposed identities and the growing obsession over them. Williams is the recipient of the MFA Joan Mitchell Foundation award, the Bromo Seltzer Fellowship, and served as artist-in-residence at School 33 in Baltimore, Maryland. Williams, originally from Upstate New York, received his master’s degree from the Mount Royal School of Art at Maryland Institute College Art (MICA). He currently teaches at MICA and serves as Program Director at Hamiltonian Artists in Washington, D.C.

Brian Alfred
Artist • Host of SOUND & VISION

Amara Antilla
Assistant Curator at The Guggenheim

Regine Basha
Curator • Residency Director at Pioneer Works

Mary Birmingham
Curator at Visual Arts Center of New Jersey

Adam Frelin
Artist • Educator

Jenny Gerow
Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art at BRIC

Enrico Gomez
Artist • Curator • Director of The Dorado Project • Founder and Director of M E N Gallery

Katherine Gressel
Artist • Curator at the Old Stone House

Shanti Grumbine
Artist

Rosario Güiraldes
Assistant Curator and Co-Director of Open Sessions at The Drawing Center

Gabriel de Guzman
Curator and Director of Exhibitions at Smack Mellon

Nicole Hayes
Curator of The Fields Sculpture Park and Gallery at Art Omi

Katerina Lanfranco
Artist • Educator

Oshun Layne
Curator • Director of Galleries at Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation

Taraka Larson
Artist • Prince Rama

La Keisha Leek
Curator • Manager of the Kenan Project: Public Programs & Creative Practice at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Ace Lehner
Artist • Scholar

Sara Pasti
Neil C. Trager Director of Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz

Sarah Potter
Curator • Founder and Owner of SP Projects

Sheetal Prajapati
Artist • Director of Public Engagement at Pioneer Works

Jess Wilcox
Curator • Director of Exhibitions at Socrates Sculpture Park

Claire Barliant
Writer • Curator • Professor

Paul Chaleff
Artist

Carl D’Alvia
Artist

Michael Foley
Owner of Foley Gallery

Saisha Grayson
Assistant Curator at Sackler Center

Kat Griefen
Curator at Accola Greifen Gallery

Sara Jones and Andrea Wenglowskyi
Founders of DELVE

Michelle Leftheris
Artist

Shaun Leonardo
Artist

Melissa Levin
LMCC

Chris Manning
Artist • Exhibitions Assistant at Aldrich Museum • Professor of Sculpture at Manhattanville College

Paula Naughton
Simon Preston Gallery

Sara Pasti
Director of Samuel Dorsky Museum

David Ross
Chair at SVA Art Practice Program

Krista Saunders
Ground Floor Gallery

Carla Schapiro
Artist • Professor at Pratt Institute

James Sham
Artist • Professor at George Washington University

Michael Scoggins
Artist

Arden Sherman
Curator at Hunter East Harlem Gallery

Sally Szwed
Programs at Creative Time

Jess Wallen
Independent Curator

Steve Bull
Artist

Carl D’Alvia
Artist

Maxwell and Charlie Davidson
Directors of Davidson Contemporary

Eric Gleason
Sales Director of Marlborough Gallery

Helen Homan Wu
Curator • Founder of Opalnest

Allegra LaViola
Owner and Founder of Allegra LaViola Gallery

Michelle Leftheris
Artist

Lise Prown
Artist • Gallery Coordinator at Peekskill Center for the Digital Arts

Asher Remy-Toledo
Curator • Co-Founder of Hyphen Hub

Barry Rosenberg
Curator • Director of UConn Contemporary Art Galleries

Abigail Satinsky
Program Director at Threewalls

Jonathan Shipper
Artist

Risa Shoup
Associate Director of Invisible Dog

Erin Sickler
Director of Curatorial Programs at 601 Artspace

Manon Slome
Curator at No Longer Empty

Terese Svoboda
Writer

Jessica Wallen
Curator

Maxwell and Charlie Davidson
Directors of Davidson Contemporary

Eric Gleason
Sales Director at Marlborough Gallery

Veronica Kavass
Residency Manager at Chashama North Residency

Allegra LaViola
Owner and Founder of Allegra LaViola Gallery

Coralina Meyer
Director of Last Supper Festival

Sally Morgan & Jay Lehman
Founders of Morgan Lehman Gallery

Liz Parks
Owner of Parks Fine Art

Risa Shoup
Associate Director of Invisible Dog

Sarah Snider
Artist

Herb Tam
Curator at Museum of Chinese in America