Lola Flash uses photography to challenge stereotypes and offer new ways of seeing that transcend and interrogate gender, sexual, and racial norms. Flash works primarily in portraiture with a 4x5 film camera, engaging those who are often deemed invisible. In 2008, she was a resident at Lightwork. Most recently, Flash was awarded an Art Matters grant, which allowed her to further two projects, in Brazil and London. Flash has work included in important public collections such as the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Her work is featured in the publication Posing Beauty, edited by Deb Willis, currently on exhibit across the US, and she is in the current award-winning film “Through A Lens Darkly”.

Michela Martello is a multidisciplinary artist whose research is influenced by traditional and contemporary sources characterized by symbolism. Michela was an illustrator for children’s books for 10 years and later focused her research entirely on painting. In 2006 she was selected by the American Association of the University of Women in the “Emerging Women Artists Juried Exhibition” New York Design Center, in 2014 she was one of the winners for Understanding Media the Extension of Human Being, Exhibit at B.O.S., BK, in 2019 she received a Special Merit Honor Prize, From Cultural Affairs Bureau, Tainan City Government, Taiwan, for her Installation Everything Has A Vortex.

Dawn Delikat is the Associate Executive Director at Pen + Brush. Her work with the organization began with an internship in 2004 and she came on as gallery manager in 2008. She has facilitated and curated numerous multidisciplinary international exhibitions with prominent curators and artists. Delikat’s professional experience includes managing Claire Oliver Gallery, New York, operating a high-profile artist’s studio in Chelsea, exhibition installations at the Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ, and working as an exhibition facilitator at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Parker Daley is the Visual Arts Manager for Pen + Brush. She has worked at art fairs, organized exhibitions, and has worked as a gallery consultant. A passionate modern art enthusiast, Daley has studied abroad and also served as the teaching assistant for ART111 History of Modern Art: 1850 – Present at Syracuse University, worked as a Gallery Supervisor for the Handwerker Gallery (Ithaca College) and held the position of Ithaca College Student Curator and Student Assistant for the Art History Department.

Writer Nick Bennett was the Special Projects Editor of the Brooklyn Rail. As Curatorial Assistant at the Rail, he helped to organize the ongoing exhibition Artists Need to Create on the Same Scale that Society Has the Capacity to Destroy, which has been exhibited at the 58th Venice Biennale (2019), Colby Museum in Waterville, ME (2019), and Mana Contemporary in Jersey City, NJ (2017).