Amanda Fortini has written about art, design, architecture, fashion, and aesthetics for T: The New York Times Style Magazine, The New York Times, New York Magazine, The New Yorker, I.D., Interview, Elle, and Slate, among other publications. She is currently the Beverly Rogers Fellow at Black Mountain Institute, and, for the last four years, has been a visiting lecturer at the Hank Greenspun School of Journalism at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. In 2020, she won the Rabkin Prize for visual arts journalism. She divides her time between Livingston, Montana and Las Vegas, Nevada.

Mary Abbe has been writing about art and cultural affairs since 1977. During her 32 year tenure as art critic and art news reporter at the Minneapolis Star Tribune, she wrote stories, profiled Minnesota artists and museum staff, reviewed exhibitions, analyzed national cultural politics and finance, and penned stories inspired by art-themed travel in Europe. An advocate of snappy ledes and jargon-free lingo, she remains confident that, no matter how esoteric art may sometimes appear, it will interest anyone if the writing about it is engaging and informative.

Seph Rodney, PhD was born in Jamaica, and came of age in the Bronx, NY. He has an English degree from Long Island University; a studio art MFA from the University of California, Irvine; and a PhD in museum studies from Birkbeck College, University of London. He is a senior editor and writer at Hyperallergic and has written for The New York Times, CNN, NBC Universal, and American Craft Magazine and penned catalog essays for Joyce J. Scott, Teresita Fernandez, and Meleko Mokgosi, among others. He has appeared on the AM Joy show with Joy Reid and on the Jim Jefferies Show on Comedy Central. He can be heard on the podcast “The American Age”. His book, The Personalization of the Museum Visit, was published by Routledge in May of 2019. In 2020 he won the Rabkin Arts Journalism Prize.

David Carrier taught philosophy in Pittsburgh and art history in Cleveland. He writes art criticism. His In Caravaggio’s Shadow: Naples as a Work of Art (London, 2025) is forthcoming.