Since the 1990s, Huma Bhabha (b. 1962, Karachi, Pakistan) has become known for layered and nuanced work that centers on a reinvention of the figure and its expressive possibilities. Her formally innovative practice pulls from a wide range of references, from those that span the history of art to quotidian influences such as science fiction and horror films and the makeshift structures and detritus of urban life. Instinctive and rigorous, her work brings diverse aesthetic, cultural, and psychological touchstones into contact with matters of surface, materiality, and formal construction. Employing found materials including Styrofoam, plastic bags, cork, scavenged wood, clay, and paint, in addition to traditional materials such as bronze, she combines and transforms her materials into profoundly resonant hybrid forms in which the past, present, and future coalesce. 

Jenna Gribbon (b. 1978) was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. She studied painting at the University of Georgia (2001) and received her MFA from Hunter College (2019). Her work has been included in exhibitions at the Frick Museum, New York; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw; the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville; the Kurpfälzisches Museum, Heidelberg; Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich; Georgia Museum of Contemporary Art, Atlanta; the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki; and the FLAG Art Foundation, New York, among many others. Her work is in the permanent collections of the New Orleans Museum of Art, Louisiana; the Dallas Museum of Art, Texas; the Rubell Family Collection, Florida; the Maramotti Collection, Italy; the Brooklyn Museum, New York; and Kunstmuseum, The Hague.

Rob Pruitt (b. Washington D.C., 1964) has shown internationally since the early 1990’s, with exhibitions at Rebuild Foundation, Chicago (2019); Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich (2017); the Brant Foundation in Greenwich (2015); Aspen Art Museum (2013); Dallas Contemporary (2011); Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit (2015); Freiburg Kunstverein (2012); Le Consortium, Dijon (2002); and group shows at Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome (2012); Tate Modern (2009); Punta Della Dogana/Palazzo Grassi, Venice (2009). In 2011, Public Art Fund commissioned Pruitt’s Andy Monument, a chrome-plated, seven-foot-tall statue of Andy Warhol, in New York’s Union Square. He lives and works in New York City. Rob Pruitt’s work is characterized by a fearless embrace of the present, social responsibility, and protean versatility. His output ranges from glitter canvases of panda bears, 2,922 paintings of President Obama painted one per day for each day in office, an eBay charity Flea Market, and a Hollywood-style art awards ceremony.

Jennifer Schipf is AXA XL’s Global Chief Underwriting Officer (GCUO), Fine Art & Specie. She has a BA in art history and economics from Georgetown University and a BS in interior architecture from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. As AXA XL’s GCUO, Jennifer is responsible for setting worldwide strategy for client solutions, underwriting guidelines, and ultimate profitability. She’s been dedicated to the highly specialized fine art and underwriting market for nearly twenty years and helped establish the AXA Art Prize. She previously led the organization’s North American Fine Art & Specie team while also serving as leader of Broker and Client Management for North American Specialty.

Jennifer is actively engaged in various arts organizations, teaches fine art underwriting courses, and regularly participates in industry educational conferences. She also pursues continuing education classes in painting at the New York Academy of Art and is an active patron of the Academy, Tandem Press, and other art related organizations.

Ian Alteveer joined the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in September 2023 as the Beal Family Chair of Contemporary Art, where he leads the department focused on art made after 1955.  Until August 2023, he was the inaugural Aaron I. Fleischman Curator at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he curated the recent survey Cecily Brown: Death and the Maid (2023), as well as retrospectives for Kerry James Marshall (2016), Marisa Merz (2017), David Hockney (2017–18), and Vija Celmins (2019–20).  At The Met he also co-organized the 2018 exhibition Everything Is Connected: Art and Conspiracy and the 2021 installation Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room.  Alteveer is a graduate of Stanford University and New York University's Institute of Fine Arts.  He serves on the boards of Anderson Ranch in Aspen, Colorado, and the New York-based artist grant-maker Artadia and was a 2020 Fellow at New York’s Center for Curatorial Leadership.

Curator, author, educator, administrator, and public advocate for re-imagining the role of art museums in society, Sandra Jackson-Dumont has served as Director and Chief Executive Officer of the new Lucas Museum of Narrative Art since January 2020. She oversees all curatorial, educational, public, and operational affairs for the fast-developing institution, including realization of the currently under construction 11-acre campus in Los Angeles, which includes a nearly 300,000-square-foot museum building and an expansive new park. Throughout her roles with some of the country’s most renowned museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Studio Museum in Harlem, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Seattle Art Museum, and now the Lucas Museum, she has collaborated extensively with living artists, communities, creatives, and historical materials. Her work catalyzes the presence of increasingly dynamic and diverse audiences in cultural spaces while exploring issues of relevance.

Helen Toomer is a recognized leader in the arts, with decades of experience organizing events, exhibitions and residencies. She is dedicated to uplifting womxn in the arts. Toomer is co-founder of STONELEAF RETREAT, an artists’ residency focused on womxn and families, and co-founder of Art Mamas Alliance, a support group for parents in the arts. She is Artistic Director of PHOTOFAIRS New York, a contemporary art fair dedicated to photography, and founded UPSTATE ART WEEKEND, an annual unifier of more than a hundred organizations in the Catskills and Hudson Valley of New York. Formerly, Toomer was director of Artists in Residence in Everglades, IFPDA Print Fair, Collective Design Fair, and PULSE Contemporary Art Fairs. She also co-founded and managed a contemporary art gallery, toomer labzda, in New York City. Toomer is a passionate speaker on art fairs and professional development, and was an adjunct professor at Sotheby’s Institute of Art and the Fashion Institute of Technology. She serves on the Advisory Committees for The Dorsky Museum and the Baxter St Camera Club of New York.

Jamie Adams
Washington University in St. Louis

Golnar Adili
Parsons School of Design

Tamie Beldue
University of North Carolina Asheville

Honor Bowman Hall
Savannah College of Art and Design

Charles Browning
University of the Arts

Melissa Button
Arizona State University

Miguel Carter-Fisher

Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts

Zoë Charlton
George Mason University

Bonnie Collura
Penn State University

Maggie Denk-Leigh
Cleveland Institute of Art

Peter Drake
New York Academy of Art

Fritz Drury
Rhode Island School of Design

Christian Fagerlund
University of North Texas

Andrew Falkowski
School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Joe Fig
Ringling College of Art and Design

Arthur Gonzalez
California College of the Arts

David Gothard
Pratt Institute

Robin Hill
University of California, Davis

Cynthia Lin
Purchase College

Libby McFalls
Columbus State University



Margaret Morrison
Lamar Dodd School of Art

David Pagel
Claremont Graduate University

Sara Pedigo
Flagler College

Shawn Powell
Kent State University

Howard Quednau
Minneapolis College of Art and Design

Tylonn J. Sawyer
College for Creative Studies

Tony Shore
Maryland Institute College of Art

Leslie Smith III
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Maria Teicher

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Caleb Weintraub
Indiana University Bloomington