Clifford Owens is a transdisciplinary artist. He makes photographs, performance art, works on paper, videos, installations, and texts. His art has appeared in many solo and group exhibitions, both nationally and internationally. Owens’s solo museum exhibitions include “Anthology” at MoMA PS1, “Better the Rebel You Know at Home” in Manchester, England, and “Perspectives 173: Clifford Owens” at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston; and group exhibitions of his work include “Freestyle,” “Greater New York 2005,” and “Performance Now: The First Decade of the New Century.” His performance-based projects have been widely presented in museums and galleries, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Shaun Leonardo is a Brooklyn-based artist from Queens, New York City. He received his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, is a recipient of support from Creative Capital, Guggenheim Social Practice, Art for Justice, and A Blade of Grass, and was recently profiled in the New York Times. His work has been featured at the Guggenheim Museum, the High Line, and New Museum, with a recent solo exhibition at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). From fall 2018 through spring 2020, Leonardo enacted socially engaged projects at Pratt Institute’s School of Art as a visiting fellow.

Dread Scott is an interdisciplinary artist whose art encourages viewers to re-examine ideals of American society. In 1989, the US Senate outlawed his artwork and President Bush declared it “disgraceful” because of its transgressive use of the American flag. His work has been exhibited at the Whitney Museum, MoMA PS1, the Walker Art Center, and in galleries and on street corners. He is a 2019 Open Society Foundations Soros Equality Fellow and has received grants from United States Artists and the Creative Capital Foundation. Artnet News highlighted his 2019 performance, Slave Rebellion Reenactment, as one of the most important artworks of the decade.