Dewey Crumpler is an Associate Professor of painting at San Francisco Art Institute. His current work examines issues of globalization/ cultural co-modification through the integration of digital imagery, video and traditional painting techniques. Dewey’s works are available in the permanent collections of the California African American Museum, Triton Museum of Art Los Angeles and the Oakland Museum Of California. Crumpler received the Flintridge Foundation Award, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, as well as The Fleishhacker Foundation Fellowship Eureka Award. Currently represented by Jenkins Johnsons Gallery, Collapse was Dewey Crumpler’s most recent exhibition at Seattle University, with The Hedreen Gallery.

Carol Becker is Professor of the Arts and Dean of Columbia University School of the Arts. Before holding this position she was Dean of Faculty and Vice President for Academic Affairs at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is the author of numerous articles and several books including The Invisible Drama: Women and the Anxiety of Change; The Subversive Imagination: Artists, Society and Social Responsibility; Surpassing the Spectacle: Global Transformations and the Changing Politics of Art; Zones of Contention: Essays on Art, Institution, Gender, and Anxiety; Thinking in Place: Art, Action, and Cultural Production; and Losing Helen.

J. John Priola, received a B.A. from Metropolitan State College, Denver, and an M.F.A. from the SFAI. His work has been shown in major exhibitions such as, "In A Different Light" University Art Museum, Berkeley and "Prospect ‘96", at the Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany. His work is included in numerous museum collections, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and SFMOMA, and recently received a Svane Foundation Commission. Priola has taught at SFAI for twenty-four years, is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer and for the last 3 years served as Director of the Low-Residency MFA Program, and is a faculty trustee to the board. He is represented by Anglim Gilbert Gallery, Joseph Bellows Gallery, and Weston Gallery.

Dore Bowen, PhD, writes on modern and contemporary art, focusing on perceptual practices that probe the texture of ordinary life. She publishes in journals, such as Art in America, Afterimage, Culture & Musées, Square Cylinder, and Camerawork, on an international group of artists, including Yael Bartana, Dan Graham, Akram Zaatari, Elin Hansdottir, and Lydia Ourahmane. In 2019 Bowen published Bruce Nauman: Spatial Encounters (with Constance M. Lewallen, University of California Press), and is currently completing a monograph on the diorama from the 19th century to contemporary installation art. She is Research Professor in the Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies at Duke University.