Ciera Alyse McKissick is an independent writer, curator, cultural producer, and the founder of AMFM, an organization whose mission is to promote emerging artists. She created AMFM, originally a web magazine, as an independent study project in 2009 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she studied Journalism and Mass Communications. Her work since then often involves collaboration through supporting Black and brown artists, local arts organizations, and seeks to stimulate community engagement that's driven by inclusivity, accessibility, intention, and care. She is also the Public Programs Manager at the Hyde Park Art Center.
Projects and events have been featured in Terremoto MX, Newcity, Sixty Inches From Center, Saatchi Art, ABC 7 Chicago, The Chicago Tribune, WGN, WTTW, Chicago Reader, The Chicago Sun Times, Southside Weekly, Afropunk, and more. Learn more at www.cieramckissick.com

Tiffany M Johnson is interested in spaces (and a world) where Black people can exhale. She is a researcher, survivors advocate, and cultural worker passionate about community building through imaginative, underground, and cooperative practices.
Tiffany attended SOAS, University of London, for her Master's in Migration and Diasporas Studies and currently pursuing a DIY Ph.D. A long-term art and hood scholarship project, her research focuses on alternative normalities within spaces combating oppressive structures through ancestral technologies, creative expressions, and ecology.

Prem Krishnamurthy (b. 1977) is a designer, author, and educator. He received the Cooper Hewitt National Design Award for Communications Design in 2015 and KW Institute for Contemporary Art’s “A Year With…” residency fellowship in 2018. His professional papers were acquired by Bard College’s Center for Curatorial Studies in 2019. In 2022, Domain Books published his book-length epistolary essay, On Letters, which was named one of Fast Company’s “Best Design Books of 2022”. Prem graduated with a B.A. in Fine Art from Yale College in 1999 and was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to Germany the same year.
He currently directs Wkshps, a multidisciplinary design studio, and organizes Department of Transformation, an itinerant workshop that practices collaborative tools for social change. In addition to leading design projects with artists, cultural institutions, and nonprofit organizations across the world, he has curated several large-scale exhibitions. These include Oh, Gods of Dust and Rainbows, the 2022 edition of FRONT International, Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art; Our Silver City, 2094 at Nottingham Contemporary; and Ministry of Graphic Design in Sharjah, UAE. Previously, Prem founded the design studio Project Projects and the exhibition space P! in New York.

Elizabeth Burden is a multidisciplinary artist blending studio work with social practice. She uses drawing, painting, video, sound, and other media, mining archives and datasets to reflect on geographies, imaginaries, legacies, and vestiges of the past/present/future. Whether in her studio or working with others in community-engaged processes, she seeks to create spaces of/for critical thinking, critical feeling, and critical reflection that lead to a re-imagining of possibilities.

Matthew Flores is an artist and designer currently based in Atlanta, Georgia. His studio practice is rooted in strategies of misdirection and appropriation, and orbits around an interest in how the art viewing experience can be analogized with the format of jokes, performance, and the theatrical. He received his MFA from the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia in 2019 and his BA in Art History from the School of Visual Studies at the University of Missouri in 2015.

Eli Brown is an interdisciplinary artist and farmer whose research is rooted in queer ecologies, trans theory, and agriculture. Working in sculpture, participatory projects, and new media, Eli explores trans-ness as a lineage and evolutionary strategy encompassing many species in the natural world. His practice aims to address the problematic foundations of classification systems which continue to inform our bodily experiences.
Recent work has been featured at The deCordova Museum Biennial, Flux Factory, Franconia Sculpture Park, and Creative Time X. Eli’s work has received reviews in Sculpture Magazine, CULTURED, and Art New England. Last year, their artist essay was published in Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture.