Lowery Stokes Sims

Lowery Stokes Sims is Curator at the Museum of Arts and Design. From 2000-2007 Sims was executive director then president of The Studio Museum in Harlem and most recently served as Adjunct Curator for the Permanent Collection. Sims was on the education and curatorial staff of The Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1972-1999. A specialist in modern and contemporary art Sims is known for her particular expertise in the work of African, Latino, Native and Asian American artists. She has published extensively and her research on the work of the Afro-Cuban Chinese Surrealist artist Wifredo Lam was published by the University of Texas Press in 2002. In 1997 she organized a survey of the work of Richard Pousette-Dart at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Sims has lectured nationally and internationally and guest curated numerous exhibitions most recently at the National Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica (2004), The Cleveland Museum of Art and the New York Historical Society (2006). She is the editor and an essayist for the catalogue of the National Museum of the American Indian’s 2008 retrospective of Fritz Scholder. In 2003-04 Sims served on the jury for the memorial for the World Trade Center and between 2004 and 2006 served as the chair of the Cultural Institutions Group, a coalition of museums, zoos, botanical gardens and performing organizations funded by the City of New York. Sims was a fellow at the Clark Art Institute in spring 2007. In 2005 and 2006 she was Visiting Professor at Queens College and Hunter College in New York City and in fall 2007 Visiting Scholar in the Department of Art at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Peggy Diggs

Peggy Diggs’s community art installations include Make Do for the Weatherspoon Art Museum in North Carolina, Recollection for Wave Hill in the Bronx, and Your Name Here with homeless women in Chicago. Her grants and awards include a Massachusetts Cultural Council Individual Artist Grant, a Special Editions Grant from the Lower East Side Printshop, a New England Foundation for the Arts New Forms grant, and a New England Foundation for the Arts/National Endowment for the Arts Regional Fellowship in Sculpture. She currently teaches at Williams College in Massachusetts. She received her MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art.

www.williams.edu/humanities/pdiggs

Judy Cotton

Judy Cotton was born and raised in Australia, moved to the United States in 1971 and now divides her time between New York and Connecticut. With a house on the banks of the Connecticut River, Cotton has immersed herself in the area’s waterways, life, and history, and for the past decade has inventively incorporated aquatic motifs into her art. Cotton’s work is in the collections of such prestigious institutions as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Art, and the National Gallery of Australia.

www.jamesgrahamandsons.com

Nancy Macko

Macko, a member of the faculty at Scripps College since 1986, and is currently professor of Art and Director of the Scripps Digital Art Program. Originally from New York, she received her undergraduate degree from University of Wisconsin, River Falls and her graduate degrees from the University of California, Berkeley. She has served on: the Exhibitions Advisory Committee for LACPS (Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies) (1994-6); the Art Advisory Committee for the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (1996-8); the national Board of Directors of the College Art Association (1994-8) and ArtTable (2002-6); and the Advisory Board of the Southern California Women’s Caucus for Art (2003-6).

www.nancymacko.com

Hope Sandrow

Sandrow’s art practice is primarily photo-based, exploring relationships between seeing, knowing and representation. Sandrow’s work is included in public collections such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum and Corcoran Gallery. Her work has significant critical acclaim in art journals and received numerous awards including two NEA Arts Fellowships and the Skowhegan Governors Award. Sandrow lives and works in New York.

www.hopesandrow.com

Margaret and Christine Wertheim

Margaret Wertheim is a science writer and the author of books on the cultural history of physics. In 2003, she and her twin sister Christine Wertheim founded the Institute For Figuring, an organization based in Los Angeles that promotes the public understanding of the poetic and aesthetic dimensions of science and mathematics. Christine is a faculty member of the Department of Critical Studies at CalArts. Through their work with the IFF, the Wertheim twins have curated exhibitions on scientific and mathematical themes at galleries and museums, including Apexart, Machine Project, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Art Center College of Design, and the Museum of Jurassic Technology.

www.theiff.org