Regine BashaMary Livingston BeebeCee BrownLaura DonnelleyLinda EarleGai GherardiAlexander GrayCatherine GundDavid MendozaLaurence MillerLowery Stokes SimsMarianne WeemsPhilip YenawineBruce Yonemoto

Regine Basha has worked as a curator, art writer and consultant since 1993. She has curated in non-profit spaces in Canada, the US and parts of Latin America and the Middle East, and has often initiated curatorial projects or collaboratives incorporating artists' commissions in public spaces. Recently she was based in Austin, Texas where she co-founded Fluent~Collaborative and also held the position of Adjunct Curator of Arthouse from 2002-2007. Currently she has curated, 'The Marfa Sessions' at Ballroom Marfa and 'The Activist Impulse : Emily Jacir, Andrea Geyer, Kristin Lucas, Valerie Tevere + Angel Nevarez and Judi Werthein' at Women + their Work. Her writing has appeared in Art Papers, Art Lies, Modern Painters, Cabinet, Bidoun and numerous artists' catalogs. She co-founded the industry-watch website, grackleworld.com with Christopher Ho. Regine Basha lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Mary Livingston Beebe Since its inception in 1981, Mary Livingstone Beebe has been the Director of the Stuart Collection which is an on-going program commissioning outdoor sculpture for the 1200-acre campus at the University of California, San Diego. Major works have been completed by Terry Allen, Michael Asher, John Baldessari, Niki de Saint Phalle, Jackie Ferrara, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Richard Fleischner, Jenny Holzer, Robert Irwin,Tim Hawkinson, Elizabeth Murray, Bruce Nauman, Nam June Paik, Alexis Smith, Kiki Smith, and William Wegman.   A book documenting the first 20 years of the collection: Landmarks: Sculpture Commissions for the Stuart Collection at the University of California, San Diego , was published in 2001 by Rizzoli International Publications, Inc. From 1972 to 1981, Beebe was Director of the Portland Center for the Visual Arts in Portland, Oregon. She serves on numerous boards and committees including the Art Advisory Board for the University of California, San Francisco’s Mission Bay campus, and the Public Art Committee for the San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture.  She has been a member of the Art Steering Committees for the Greater Toronto Airport  (Ontario) and the Denver International Airport, the Art Advisory Committees for the University of Washington, Seattle and Harvard and Radcliffe, Cambridge.  She has lectured widely and served on many panels for the National Endowment for the Arts and as juror for public art projects across the country and in Europe.  In the sixties she worked at the Portland (Oregon) Art Museum, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University.

Cee Brown The son of cattle ranchers in the Yakima Valley, WA, Cee moved to New York City in 1977 to take a position at The Museum of Modern Art, where he worked in the single contemporary program of the Museum called The Projects Program. After three years at MoMA, he became director of the Holly Solomon Gallery, and had the opportunity to work with some of the most exciting and non-traditional artists of the time. Cee went on to become simultaneously the Executive Director of Creative Time Inc. and the Executive Vice President of Art Matters Inc. He concluded his 20 years in the art world with his last stint running the Art Matters Foundation and spearheading the successful Art Matters Catalog, which featured merchandise and artworks by well-known and emerging artists. All profits from the mail-order business went back into the foundation to be granted to younger and more challenging visual artists across the U.S. In 1996, Cee moved to his waterfront cottage in Sag Harbor Village full-time and began working in real estate. He has since earned top producer statust and an extensive following of creative and artistic customers and clients. With his business mainly through referrals, Cee has a superior track record for successfully servicing his buyers and sellers and fulfilling their real estate needs from Hampton Bays to Montauk. Cee is the chairperson of the Sag Harbor Village Architecture and Historic Preservation Review Board, and has spent time working with the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton.

Laura Donnelley is the President of the Board of the Santa Monica Museum of Art and has served in this role since 2000. She is also Chairman of the Board of the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation in Chicago. Among their particular areas of interest are education for underserved adolescents and long range cross-cultural projects encompassing education, the arts, biodiversity and conservation in Chicago and the low country of South Carolina. Laura founded the Good Works Foundation, a private, family foundation which supports innovative approaches to education, the arts and the environment. Laura was a co-founder of the Aspen Art Museum and of Art Matters Inc. She actively serves on several boards including the Los Angeles Opera, Sarah Lawrence College (her alma mater), The New Visions Foundation, and Southern California Public Radio. She is passionate about her four children ages 9 to 30, contemporary art, and the outdoors.

Linda Earle is the Executive Director the New York Arts Program, an accredited off-campus study program for undergraduate and post-baccalaureate students in the visual, performing and media arts, writing and journalism. Before joining NYAP she served as the Executive Director of Program for the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, one of the nation’s leading organizations for emerging visual artists. She was a senior Program Director at New York State Council on the Arts where she served in several discipline areas in the performing and visual arts. The Individual Artists Program at NYSCA was founded under her direction in 1984. She has taught media and cultural studies at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University; Hunter College and Barnard College, and has served on numerous grants and commissioning panels; and artists advocacy groups. Linda has worked on independent film, theatre and film and visual arts curatorial projects over the years. As a writer, she had residencies at Hedgebrook, and the Writers Room. She holds an MFA in Film from Columbia University and a BA in Film culture from Hampshire College. She serves on the Board of Governors of Colby College Museum, and Music Theatre Group, and is President of the Alliance for Inclusion in the Arts.

Gai Gherardi is co-owner/designer of l.a. Eyeworks, founded in Los Angeles with Barbara McReynolds in 1979. Gherardi and McReynolds create signature collections of limited-edition eyewear that are distributed worldwide. A passionate fan of all of the arts, Gherardi has served frequently on arts/design juries, and lectured on l.a. Eyeworks’ unique approach to design and fashion. Throughout its history, l.a. Eyeworks has supported artists, designers, and architects, and has used its international visibility to campaign for freedom of expression. Gherardi is also a passionate protector of the California Desert Tortoise and a champion of the Dumpy Tree Frog.

Alexander Gray is Principal and Co-Founder of  Alexander Gray Associates, a New York Chelsea gallery and advisory firm that focuses on mid-career artists who emerged in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. Prior to establishing the Gallery, Alexander Gray held numerous leadership positions in the arts, including Artadia: The Fund for Art and Dialogue; Artpace San Antonio; Art Matters Foundation; the National Campaign for Freedom of Expression; Visual AIDS; and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gray is a trustee of the Archipenko Foundation. He has lectured extensively at schools and universities, including New York University; Yale University; School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; University of California, Los Angeles; Art Center College of Design; and the University of Victoria.

Catherine Gund, Author, Director and Producer, is the founder of Aubin Pictures, an Emmy Award-nominated filmmaker, writer, and organizer. Her media work focuses on arts and culture, HIV/AIDS and reproductive health, the environment, and other social justice issues. Her films - which include WHAT'S ON YOUR PLATE?, A TOUCH OF GREATNESS, MOTHERLAND AFGHANISTAN, MAKING GRACE, ON HOSTILE GROUND, and HALLELUJAH! - have screened around the world in festivals and theaters, on PBS, Discovery's Planet Green, and the Sundance Channel, at community-based organizations, universities, and museums. Gund's most recent project, WHAT'S ON YOUR PLATE?, is a fun and provocative documentary about kids and food politics, accompanied by a curriculum, website and workbook for families. Gund currently serves on many boards and advisory committees including Art Matters, Food Fight, The Green Team, Youth Race, and The George Gund Foundation. She co-founded the Third Wave Foundation which supports young women and transgender youth ages 15-30, and DIVA TV, an affinity group of ACT UP/NY. She was the founding director of BENT TV, the video workshop for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender youth. She was on the founding boards of Iris House, Working Films, Reality Dance Company, and The Sister Fund and has also served for MediaRights.org, The Robeson Fund of the Funding Exchange, The Vera List Center for Art and Politics at the New School, and the Astraea Foundation. She lives in NYC with her four children.

David Mendoza began a long career in the arts with a commercial gallery in Seattle in 1968. In 1977 he moved to New York City where he was with the New York State Council on the Arts for seven years. In 1986 he returned to Seattle to help found Artist Trust, and served as founding director until 1991 when he became executive director of the National Campaign for Freedom of Expression. He has been an activist in the arts, media and democracy, and the gay/lesbian community. In 1998 he went to Bali on an extended holiday and has lived there ever since. On Bali he works with local craftspeople making textiles with natural plant dyes, and does community volunteer work.

Laurence Miller began his visual arts career in the late 1960’s as Director of Theme Exhibitions for Hemisfair 68. In the early 1970s, he joined the adjunct faculty of the University of Texas at Austin and the staff of the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center as a Special Assistant to the Chancellor and Curator of Literary Iconography. From 1974-1990, Miller served as Director of the Austin Museum of Art (formerly Laguna Gloria Art Museum). In 1990, he formed a consulting group to assist non-profit visual arts organizations with program development and strategic planning. In 1993, he was appointed Senior Advisor for Programs at Artpace, A Foundation for Contemporary Art in San Antonio and from 1995-1999, he served as the organization’s Founding Director. He held the position of Artpace’s Senior Advisor for Special Projects until November 2001 when he became Director Emeritus. In the spring of 2002, Miller founded Fluent~Collaborative (formerly baluartecreek.org). Fluent’s two primary projects ...might be good, a contemporary art e-review, and testsite, an exhibition platform for collaborations between artists and writers, have received international attention. Throughout his career, Laurence Miller has been pro-active in professional organizations at local, state and national level. Currently, Miller is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, a member emeritus of the Association of Art Museum Directors and a member of the Board of Trustees for the International Design Conference (Aspen), ArtLies (Houston) and Arthouse (Austin).

Lowery Stokes Sims served as Executive Director of The Studio Museum in Harlem from 2000 to 2005 and as President in 2005-2006. From 1972 to 1999 she worked on the educational and curatorial staff of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, concluding her tenure there as Curator of Modern Art. Sims received her B.A. in Art History from Queens College, her M.A. in art history from Johns Hopkins University and her PhD in art history from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She has also received honorary degrees from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Parsons School of Design at the New School University, the Atlanta College of Art, and Brown University. In 2003-04 Dr. Sims was also a member of the jury to select the design for the memorial at the World Trade Center. Sims has published extensively on modern and contemporary art with a special interest in African, Native, Latin and Asian American artists. She has curated and juried exhibitions, and lectured and participated on symposia nationally and internationally. In 1991 she was the recipient of the Frank Jewitt Mather Award for distinction in art criticism from the College Art Association. Her publication, Wifredo Lam and the International Avant-Garde, 1923-1982 is available by University of Texas Press (2002). Sims was a visiting critic in the VIEWPOINT program in the Art Department at the University of Texas, Austin in 1996 and 2006. She is currently adjunct curator at The Studio Museum in Harlem and Visiting Professor at Hunter College and Queens College of the City University of New York.

Marianne Weems is artistic director of The Builders Association (www.thebuildersassociation.org) and has directed all of their productions, beginning in 1994. The Builders Association is an OBIE award-winning New York-based performance and media company, their work has been presented at venues including The Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Singapore Arts Festival, London’s Barbican Centre, Romaeuropa Festival, the Festival Iberoamericano de Teatro de Bogota, and the Melbourne International Arts Festival, among hundreds of other venues. In addition to her work with the company, she is currently at work on a new theater/music event with David Byrne and Fatboy Slim titled "Here Lies Love", and she recently directed a multimedia workshop with Disney Creative Entertainment and Walt Disney Imagineering. Marianne has lectured internationally on media, performance, and contemporary art, and also serves on the boards of Yaddo, and Arts Presenters, and on the advisory committee of the Center for Research in Engineering, Media and Performance at UCLA. She is the co-author, with Philip Yenawine and Brian Wallis, of Art Matters: How The Culture Wars Changed America (NYU Press 2000.) In the distant past, she also worked as a dramaturg with Susan Sontag, The Wooster Group, and others.

Philip Yenawine is co-founder of Visual Understanding in Education (VUE), a non-profit educational research organization that develops and studies ways of teaching visual literacy and of using art to teach thinking and communication skills. Director of Education at The Museum of Modern Art from 1983-93, he worked in 1992-94 as consulting curator at the Institute for Contemporary Art, and during the academic year 1993-94, as Visiting Professor of art education at Mass College of Art, both in Boston. Yenawine is the author of an introduction to modern art, called How to Look at Modern Art, and has written six children's books about art – Stories, Colors, Lines, Shapes, People and Places. Key Art Terms for Beginners was published in 1995. His contributions have been recognized within the arts community by the National Art Education Association Award for Distinguished Service, 1993; National Art Education Association Museum Educator of the Year, 1991; New York State Governor's Award for Visual AIDS and A Day Without Art, 1990; and the New York State Governor's Award for The Museum of Modern Art's program for people with hearing disabilities, 1984. Additionally he was made a George A. Miller Visiting Scholar at the University of Illinois, 1996 and awarded a Doctorate of Fine Art, Honoris Causa, from the Kansas City Art Institute, 2003. Yenawine was a guest at Yaddo in both 2004 and 2005.

Bruce Yonemoto has developed a body of work which positions itself within the overlapping intersections of art and commerce, of the gallery world and the television screen. His work attempts to manipulate an audience with a simultaneous recognition of the machinations of the manipulation. He believes that the composition of mass media has become a new historical site of the domination of human behavior. During Bruce’s twenty-year collaboration with his brother, Norman, he has been honored with numerous awards and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Film Institute, The Rockefeller Foundation, and the Maya Deren Award for Experimental Film and Video. Most recently, Bruce’s solo installations, photographs and sculptures have been featured in major one person shows at the ICC in Tokyo, the ICA in Philadelphia, and the Kemper Museum in Kansas City. He has had solo exhibitions at Blum & Poe and Lemon Sky, Los Angeles; Gray Kapernekas, New York; Tomio Koyama, Tokyo and his work was featured in Los Angeles 1955-85 at the Pompidou Center, Paris. His work is featured in a 2007 exhibition at the Generali Foundation, Vienna. Bruce is Professor and Chair of the Studio Art at the University of California, Irvine.