Visual artist Sam Vernon earned her MFA in painting and printmaking from Yale University. Her installations combine Xeroxed drawings, photographs, paintings, and sculptural components in an exploration of personal narrative and identity, with recent solo exhibitions at San Francisco’s Museum of the African Diaspora and UT Downtown Gallery, Knoxville, Tennessee, among others. Honors received include San Francisco Artadia Awards finalist; Sally and Don Lucas Artists Program (LAP) Visual Arts Fellowship; Artistes en Résidence, Clermont-Ferrand, France; and many others. Collaborative projects include, among others, Broadside Press, with poets Danez Smith and Nathan McClain and Black Women Arts for Black Lives Matter, New Museum, New York. and others.

NY-based artist Fawn Krieger examines themes of touch, ownership and exchange in her multi-genre works. Her Flintstonian tactility and penchant for scale compressions reveal an unlikely collision of private and public, where intimate moments also serve as social ruptures. Her work has been exhibited at The Kitchen, Art in General, and many other galleries. Krieger is a 2019 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award Fellow, and has received many additional grants. She serves as Program Director at The Keith Haring Foundation, Consultant for the Berlin-based MFA & PhD program Transart Institute, and Adjunct Faculty at Adelphi University and Watkins College of Art. Krieger has upcoming residencies at the new Kai Art Center and the Josef & Anni Albers Foundation.

Artist and poet Rindon Johnson bases his work in language. Johnson has presented solo exhibitions at Chisenhale Gallery (London), The Julia Stoschek Collection (Düsseldorf) and the SculptureCenter (Long Island City). Johnson has participated in group exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum, Kunstverein Freiburg, The Hammer Museum, The Whitney Museum, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Literaturhaus Berlin, among others. He is the author of Nobody Sleeps Better Than White People (Inpatient, 2016), the VR book, Meet in the Corner (Publishing-House.Me, 2017), Shade the King (Capricious, 2017) and The Law of Large Numbers: Black Sonic Abyss (Chisenhale, Inpatient, SculptureCenter 2021). He was born on the unceded territories of the Ohlone people and lives in Berlin.

Contemporary artist Michael Joo is known for using a combination of scientific language, processes and complex structures that speak to liminality, access, and transmission. Joo uses various media such as sculpture, photography, printmaking, and painting, further referencing cultural heritage, identity, and natural history. In 2016, the artist created a massive site-specific installation at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. The artist’s works are in the collections of the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, The MoMA, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, among others. He currently lives and works in New York as a Senior Critic in Sculpture at Yale University and teaches at Columbia University in the MFA program.

Louis Osmosis (b. 1996, Brooklyn, NY) is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily in sculpture, drawing, performance, and text. His practice revolves heavily around craft/manufacture, performative actions, and readymades, incorporating found objects and vernacular materials, from popsicle sticks to graphic t-shirts, and hornet nests to violins. Equally invested in reenactment and artistic production, Osmosis’s speculative approach to form reflects his ongoing “investigation into affected modes of aspiration and lack.” Osmosis received his BFA from the Cooper Union in 2018.

Writer and editor Charles Schultz is Managing Editor of the Brooklyn Rail.