Joshua Bardfield has spent his career in public service, working for a variety of domestic and international global health initiatives. Prior to stepping into his full-time role at Sky High, he was a founding Board member. He previously served as Director in the Office of Institutional Support at Bard College, while also teaching courses in public health and infectious disease program design. Prior to Bard, he spent two decades designing and building public health programs focused on reproductive health and HIV patient care and treatment in North America, Central America, Asia, Africa and Oceania, most recently with UCSF Institute for Global Health Sciences.

Alvaro (Cadet) Barrington, born 1983.

Sound isn’t always fury

Over production of the elite managerial class

I forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste

You can’t see it in the object you could only see it in the gesture in the idea in the concept 

There are people defending this getting doordash

You cannot bargain with reality

New age libertarianism has entered the drum circles

An act that has become reality 

He feels very motivated by his sympathies not his resentments

Dan Colen is an artist whose work has been exhibited in institutional venues and held in collections around the world. He consistently explores how the physical properties of mediums dictate their specific forms and symbolic resonances, and oscillates between rigorous artisanal technique and the aesthetics of chance and interconnectedness. His practice perpetually seeks out new modes of making and sharing; in 2011 he founded Sky High Farm, a nonprofit farm dedicated to diminishing food insecurity and promoting food sovereignty.

Anne Imhof (b. 1978, Giessen) is an artist. She completed her studies at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main in 2012. She presented her work Faust in the German Pavilion of the 57th Venice Biennial, for which she was awarded the Golden Lion for Best National Participation. Other solo exhibitions include Tate Modern, London (2019); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2021); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2022); and Kunsthaus Bregenz (2024). Imhog lives and works in Berlin and New York.

Neville Wakefield is a writer and curator interested in exploring the ways in which art behaves outside of institutional contexts. He has worked extensively with institutions in the U.S. and abroad including the Schaulager Switzerland where he curated the ground-breaking Matthew Barney retrospective ‘Prayer Sheet with the Wound and the Nail.’ His interest in how art behaves outside of institutions led him to co-found Elevation1049, a site-specific biennial in Gstaad, Switzerland currently in its sixth edition while his role as Founding Artistic Director of Desert X has been instrumental in reframing the legacy of land art within a context of climate crisis.

Sarah Workneh is the Co-Executive Director of Sky High Farm. Sarah joined Sky High Farm in 2024 after 23 years running art education non-profits at Ox-Bow and Skowhegan. Sarah’s interests in social movements, liberatory education, and praxis informed her approach and structural, experiential, and financial shifts at Skowhegan. She converted the school’s food program to work with local farms and with neighbors on water and land conservation. Sarah has served as faculty, speaker, and published writer and has maintained her commitment to art through board work-- serving on the boards of RAIR, Denniston Hill, the Star of Hope Foundation and ProjectEATS. She also serves on the board of the Buxton School.