Tom Finkelpearl is the Executive Director of the Queens Museum of Art. He’s worked as a curator and program manager at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, Director of the Percent for Art Program at the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and Executive Director of Program at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. His Dialogues in Public Art (2000) is a collection of artist interviews, contemplating the issues of community outreach and public engagement in art outside the walls of a museum. He is currently working on a book entitled The Art of Social Cooperation.

Harrell Fletcher is an artist who has worked collaboratively and individually on socially engaged, interdisciplinary projects for more than fifteen years; his work has been exhibited throughout the United States, and in Europe. He is a professor of art and social practice at portland state university in Portland, Oregon.

Jens Hoffmann is Director of the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco. He has curated over three-dozen exhibitions since the late 1990s. He was Director of Exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London from 2003 to 2007. Hoffmann is an adjunct professor at the California College of the Arts, San Francisco, a guest professor at the Nuova Accademia de Belle Arti, Milan, and a faculty member at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He was the co-curator for the 12th Istanbul Biennial in fall 2011.

Renaud Proch is ICI’s Executive Director. Prior to this he was the Senior Director at the Project in New York, where he worked on developing the careers of a roster of 21 artists. Most recently, he co-curated a retrospective of South African performance artist Tracey Rose for the Johannesburg Art Gallery, South Africa, and the Umea Bildmuseet, Sweden. He has lectured at Camberwell College, London, the Royal College of Art, London, the California College of the Arts, San Francisco and Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles.

J. Morgan Puett is an artist whose work focuses on clothing design/textile and costume history as well as the recreation of milieus that recollect her well-worn southern rural heritage. Puett launched her career with the creation of her own designer label (J. Morgan Puett) and accompanying SoHo retail fashion house. She has been featured, among others in New York Magazine, W, Harpers Bazaar, Art Forum, Art in America, and The New York Times.

Andrew Suggs is the Executive Director of Vox Populi, and a curator and writer. He earned an AB cum laude from Harvard University. He curated the exhibition Kick in the Eye at Vox Populi (Philadelphia, PA) in 2011, Expanded Marks at Space (Portalnd, ME) in 2009 and an upcoming two-person exhibition of artists Jonathan Van Dyke and Brian Kokoska at Vox Populi (Philadelphia, PA).  He has contributed texts to numerous exhibition catalogs and Phonebook: Directory of Independent Art Projects & Spaces.

Astria Suparak is the director and curator of Carnegie Mellon’s Miller Gallery, where she curated the first Yes Men retrospective, Keep It Slick: Infiltrating Capitalism with The Yes Men, and co-curated Whatever It Takes: Steelers Fan Collections, Rituals, and Obsessions and the 2011 Pittsburgh Biennial. Suparak was the director and curator of the Pratt Film Series and Syracuse University’s Warehouse Gallery, and has curated exhibitions, screenings and events for museums, festivals, publications, and film centers internationally, as well as for many alternative spaces. She recently edited the Yes Men Activity Book and co-produced New Art/Science Affinities (2011), which accompanies the Miller Gallery at CMU’s touring exhibition, Intimate Science.

Nato Thompson is Chief Curator at Creative Time, New York, as well as a writer and activist. Among his public projects for Creative Time are Tania Bruguera’s Immigrant Movement International, Democracy in America: The National Campaign, and Waiting for Godot, a project by Paul Chan held in New Orleans. His book Seeing Power: Art and Activism in the Age of Cultural Production will be published in October 2012 by Melville House Publishing. Thompson was formerly a curator at MASS MoCA, and he also curated ICI’s Experimental Geography, which traveled to eight venues in North America.

Transformazium, comprised of Leslie Stem, Caledonia Curry, Ruthie Stringer and Dana Bishop-Root, is a collaborative project located just outside of Pittsburgh, PA in a neighborhood that has experienced economic and demographic changes resulting from the loss of industry in the region. Transformazium aims to use the tools of the artist to call attention to existing wealth and strength in a place that is often considered under-resourced; to meet practical needs for information, communication and resource exchange among residents of a neighborhood and between neighborhoods; offer art and design consultation as a means for residents of a neighborhood to exercise critical aesthetic agency; exchange models of action and facilitate communication between neighborhoods and communities facing similar challenges.