Dona Nelson received their BFA from the Ohio State University in 1968, attending the Whitney Museum Study Program while still an undergraduate. They taught at Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University, Philadelphia from 1992 to 2023. Nelson shows at Locks Gallery in Philadelphia and the Thomas Erben Gallery in New York City. They currently have a show at Canada Gallery in NYC that is a joint project with Canada and Thomas Erben. Nelson’s paintings are included in collections such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Des Moines Art Center, the Carnegie Museum of Art and the new Princeton University Art Museum where their painting, Providence, 2023, is currently installed until March 29th in the museum exhibiton, Princeton Collects.

Artist, curator, and critic Andrew Woolbright is based in Brooklyn, New York, and is an MFA graduate from RISD in painting. Woolbright is the founder and director of the gallery Below Grand located on the Lower East Side in New York. In addition to curating, he is an Editor-at-Large at the Brooklyn Rail. In 2021, Woolbright curated the show Density Betrays Us with Angela Dufresne and Cash Ragona at the Hole; and curated shows at Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center and Hesse Flatow in the summer of 2022. He currently teaches at School of Visual Arts and Pratt Institute and is a 2021–2022 resident at the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program in Dumbo.