Kathryn E. Delmez has been a curator at the Frist Art Museum since 2001. She has organized numerous exhibitions, including Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage; LeXander Bryant: Forget Me Nots; Bethany Collins: Evensong; Terry Adkins: Our Sons and Daughters Ever on the Altar (with Jamaal Sheats, director and curator, Fisk University Galleries); Murals of North Nashville Now; We Shall Overcome: Civil Rights and the Nashville Press, 1957-1968; Nick Cave: Feat.; Shinique Smith: Wonder and Rainbows; and María Magdalena Campos-Pons: Journeys. She was also the curator of a major retrospective on photographer Carrie Mae Weems that traveled to four venues, including the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Delmez has been the editor of several accompanying books and overseen the presentation of more than 35 touring exhibitions at the Frist such as Jeffrey Gibson: The Body Electric, Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists, and 30 Americans.

Laura Hutson Hunter is a writer, editor, and curator based in Nashville. She has been the arts editor of the Nashville Scene for more than a decade and curates the exhibition series Adult Contemporary.