Jeffreen M. Hayes, PhD is an art historian and curator, who merges administrative, curatorial and academic practices into her cultural practice of supporting artists and community development. Hayes is both an independent curator and the Executive Director of Threewalls, a non-profit contemporary art space based in Chicago. Bridget R. Cooks fills a joint appointment in the Program in African American Studies and the Department of Art History at University of California, Irvine. She is an Associate Professor within the School of Humanities and is also a part of the Graduate Programs in Visual Studies and Culture and Theory. Kirsten Pai Buick, PhD. is Associate Professor, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. She has published extensively on African American art and been the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Pre-Doctoral Fellowship and the Charles Gaius Bolin Fellowship at Williams College. Howard Dodson, PhD, is the Director Emeritus of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.