Lowery Stokes Sims is an American art historian and curator of modern and contemporary art. She is known for her expertise in the work of African, African American, Latinx, Native and Asian American artists such as Wifredo Lam, Fritz Scholder, Romare Bearden, Joyce J. Scott and others. She served on the curatorial staff of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and the Museum of Arts and Design. She has frequently served as a guest curator, lectured internationally and published extensively, and has received many public appointments. Sims was featured in the 2010 documentary film !Women Art Revolution.

Lauren Cornell is an American curator and writer based in New York. Cornell is the Chief Curator of the Hessel Museum of Art and the Director of the Graduate Program at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College. Previously, she was a curator at the New Museum and was the executive director of their affiliate Rhizome (2005-2012).

Sara Raza is an award-winning contemporary art curator and writer based in New York City. She is the author of “Punk Orientalism: The Art of Rebellion,“ published by Black Dog Press in London in 2022. In 2019, Sara established her own global curatorial studio practice, Punk Orientalism Studio, culminating almost two decades of independent and institutional dynamic and thematically driven global curatorial work across Asia, the Caucasus, the Middle East and North Africa, Europe and North America. The studio’s activities include exhibition making, curatorial knowledge, publishing, lecturing, creating curricula, and contemporary collecting practices. Rooted in Sara’s practice the studio explores modern and contemporary art and architecture, emergent technologies, the ancient thinking sciences, and philosophy and theory to rethink curatorial activities from a broad and scholarly perspective.