Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians) was born and raised in Ferndale, Washington and spent a number of years in Palm Springs and Riverside, CA, Portland, OR, and Milwaukee, WI. In Portland, he studied and taught chinuk wawa, a language indigenous to the Lower Columbia River Basin. His video, photo, and text work centers around personal positions of Indigenous homeland and landscape–designs of language as containers of culture expressed through personal and non-fictional forms of media.

 

Chenoa Baker (she/her) is a curator, writer, professor, and descendant of self-emancipators. She has contributed to major exhibitions, including Gio Swaby: Fresh Up at the Peabody Essex Museum, Touching Roots: Black Ancestral Legacies in the Americas at the MFA/Boston, Simone Leigh at the ICA/Boston, and Simone Leigh: Sovereignty debuted at the US Pavilion for the Venice Biennale. In recognition of her curatorial work, she received the WBUR Maker Award and was featured on NPR’s All Things Considered in 2024. In 2023, she won the AICA Young Art Critics Prize for her writing. She writes for Hyperallergic, The Observer, The Brooklyn Rail, Material Intelligence, and Studio Potter, among others.