Terrie Sultan is director of The Parrish Art Museum. She was director and chief curator of Blaffer Gallery from 200008. She has organized numerous exhibitions, including Chuck Close Prints: Process and Collaboration and James Surls: The Splendora Years, 1977 1997.
David Pagel is an associate professor of art theory and history at Claremont Graduate University. He writes a regular column for the Los Angeles Times and contributes to major art magazines, including Flash Art, Frieze, and Bomb.
Colin Gardner is professor of Critical Theory and Integrative Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Publications include a monograph on the Czech born British filmmaker and critic, Karel Reisz (2006), part of Manchester University Press’s British Film Makers series.
Nick Flynn is an assistant professor in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston. He is the author of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City (2004), which received the PEN/Martha Albrand Award.
Claudia Schmuckli is curator of Blaffer Gallery, before which she was assistant curator at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Past exhibitions include Amy Sillman: Suitors & Strangers (2007), Katrina Moorhead: A Thing Called Early Blur (2007) and Urs Fischer: Mary Poppins (2006), all Blaffer.