Chrysanne Stathacos is a multi-media artist and educator whose art works and interactive public art projects have traveled to museums, public spaces and contemporary art galleries on four continents. Her art practice makes connections between ritual actions and contemporary performance/installation art to create cross-cultural hybrid works that engage the public by giving them the opportunity to have direct participation. Stathacos is a graduate of York University, Toronto, and has received awards from the Puffin Foundation, The Japan Foundation, The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, and Art Matters. As Director of Education at Artists Space, she initiated Expanded Art Ideas, a program of collaborative artists' residency projects, within the education New York City community. Stathacos has taught and lectured at the School of Visual Arts, Kyoto University of Art and Design, Henry Street Settlement, Albright Knox Art Gallery, Queens Museum and the Lower East Side Printshop.

Joy Episalla is a New York-based artist who works in the interstices between photography, video and sculpture, with the mutability of photographed and filmed images, intervals of time and spatial volume. Episalla has lectured at Mercer Union, the Phoenix Art Museum, the Cooper Hewitt, the School of Visual Arts, the International Center of Photography, the Sprengel Museum, the Cooper Union and Harvard University. In 2008, she taught a masters class in photography at the International Center of Photography/Bard Graduate Program. Episalla has exhibited widely in the US and internationally including The Wexner Center, White Columns, Hallwalls, New Langton Arts, Rutgers University, the Newark Museum, The Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, ICP, Art/OMI, Artists Space, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Mannheimer Kunstverein. In 2003, she received a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award. In 2006, Episalla participated in Fenenin El-Rahhal/Nomadic Artists in Egypt. One of the video works Episalla shot there was later chosen as an entry at the Senza Frontiere/Without Borders film festival in Rome in 2009.

Nancy Friedemann was born in Bogotá, Colombia And has a masters degree from New York University (1997). In her work Friedemann deliberatly manages an economy of materials. Her large scale drawings allude to minimalism the Pattern and Decoration movement, and Spanish colonial painting but explicitly explore the experience of identity, gender and memory. Friedemann's awards and residencys include a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship 2009, Artist Pension Trust 2009, NALAC (2008), and the Pollock Krasner grant (2001). She has also been nominated to the Rema Hort Mann grant, and the Anonymous was a Woman Foundation grant. She has been invited to participate in residencies as Fountainhead (2008) Tamarind (2006), Taller Arte dos grafico, Bogota (2005); Yaddo,(2000) New York; Gasworks, London (2001); Bemis Center for Contemporary arts, Nebraska, (2001) Bronx Museum for the Arts, New York.

Stefania Heim earned a B.A. magna cum laude in Literature from Harvard College, an M.F.A. in Poetry from Columbia University, and is a Ph.D. candidate in English at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is co-founder and co-editor of CIRCUMFERENCE, a bi-annual journal of poetry in translation, and her own poems, translations, and criticism have recently appeared in Aufgabe, The Boston Review, Harper's, Harp & Altar, La Petite Zine, The Literary Review, and other publications. Her chapbook, Three Poems, was recently published by hand held editions. She has been a poet in residence in public schools in both Chicago and New York City and currently teaches Literature at Hunter College.

Kate Temple received her BFA in printmaking from Carnegie Mellon in 1988. She is represented in corporate and private collections and has won numerous awards for her work including a 1999 Individual Artist Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. From 1996-2003 she was the Education Coordinator at the Lower East Side Printshop and now works as an independent art educator and artist. She recently completed a four-year training in color based on the work of J.W. Goethe and Liane Collot D’Herbois. She lives and works on Manhattan's Lower East Side with her eight year old son Nicoló. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in many galleries and museums including the Chelsea Art Center NYC, The International Print Center NYC, the Grand Gallery/Art Students League NYC, Goethe Institute NYC, Parrish Art Museum, Southhampton, NY, the Mattress Factory Museum, Pittsburgh, PA and the Birmingham Art Museum, England.