Dionne Lee (born in New York, 1988) is an artist whose work explores power, survival, and personal history in relation to the American landscape. She has exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver; and New Orleans Museum of Art; among others. Her work is held in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art and Museum of Modern Art, New York, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among others. Lee is a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow.

Eric Booker is associate curator at Storm King Art Center, New York. Formerly, he was assistant curator at the Studio Museum in Harlem and held positions at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Foundation for Contemporary Arts; Calder Foundation; and National Academy of Design, New York.

Camille T. Dungy is a Colorado-based writer. She is author of the award-winning book Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden (2023), five collections of poetry, includ­ing America, A Love Story (2026), and the essay collection Guidebook to Relative Strangers (2017). Dungy is a university distinguished professor at Colorado State University.

Gabrielle L'Hirondelle Hill is a writer and an artist whose sculptural practice explores the history of found materials to investigate concepts of land and property in a capitalist economy. Hill is a member of BUSH Gallery, an Indigenous artist collective that decenters Eurocentric models of making and thinking about art.

Eric Booker is a curator and writer. He is associate curator at the Storm King Art Center. Previously, Booker was assistant curator at the Studio Museum in Harlem. His curatorial projects include Method Order Metric at the National Academy of Design Museum; Jamel Shabazz: Crossing 125th, Smokehouse 1968-1970, and Regarding the Figure at the Studio Museum in Harlem.