Dr. Ziegenfuss is assistant professor of art history at Texas A&M International University. Her scholarship focuses on modern and contemporary art, visual studies, and critical theory, with specific interests in political ecology, environmental aesthetics, materiality, scale and spatiality, process-based art, and site-specificity. She is also an art critic and independent curator who has conducted virtual and in-person exhibition projects in association with collections of photography, art, and ephemera. She holds a Ph.D in Visual Studies from the University of California, Irvine

Carolyn Salas received her BFA in sculpture from the College of Santa Fe and MFA from Hunter College. She is a Chashama Studio Space recipient and an Elizabeth Foundation Studio Program/Space awardee. She is represented by Mrs. Gallery in New York and has exhibited her work across the US.

Carlos Rosales-Silva, received his Masters in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts and is currently represented by both Sargent's Daughters in Los Angeles and New York City, and Ruiz-Healy Art gallery in Texas. He has exhibited extensively in the United States and Mexico, with recent shows at NYU, Texas Tech, Penn State, and Beverlys, in NYC. Most recently, he completed a residency at the Bemis Center in Omaha, NE, after previous residencies at Abrons Art Center, Residency Unlimited in NY, and Artpace in San Antonio, Texas.