Asha Iman Veal is a curator of interdisciplinary contemporary art (the Museum of Contemporary Photography) and an art school professor (School of the Art Institute of Chicago). Her exhibitions "Beautiful Diaspora / You Are Not the Lesser Part" (2022) and "LOVE: Still Not the Lesser" (2023) brought together cross-diasporic conversations between global artists Xyza Cruz Bacani, Widline Cadet, Cog•nate Collective, Sunil Gupta, Kelvin Haizel, Ngadi Smart, and more; and celebrations of love and desire by Jorian Charlton, Jess T. Dugan, and Mous Lamrabat, among others. Veal bridges interdisciplinary relationships between the arts, human rights, and international affairs sectors through her role as a Senior Fellow of Humanity in Action (EU/UK/US), member of the BMW Foundation Responsible Leaders Network (Global Table), and a Chicago Council on Global Affairs’ Emerging Leader. She is a board member at Filter Photo, and was a recent board member of Experimental Sound Studio. Previous grant supporters of her exhibitions include the National Endowment of the Arts, Andy Warhol Foundation, and others. Asha Iman Veal earned her BA at New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study, focusing on contemporary literary practices, nonfiction narrative, and creative examples that deepen the understanding of contemporary multiculturalism. She earned her MFA in creative writing at The New School (NY), where she completed her literary nonfiction thesis "Brooklyn (the Black)", which she later published in 2015. She earned her MA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Rogers is a visual artist and educator born in Charlottesville, VA. She holds a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University and a MFA from the University of California Los Angeles. Rogers has exhibited and performed in institutions such as Super Dakota (Brussels), Fields Projects (NY), M+B Gallery (LA), LACE (LA), the California Museum of Photography, Riverside (CA), The Wattis Institute of Contemporary Art (CA), The Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art (VA), and Documenta 15 (Germany), among others. She received the Visual Arts fellowship at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (2022) and The Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship (2023-2024). She held residencies at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2024), BEMIS Center of Contemporary Art (2022), and Black Spatial Relics (2022). Rogers was named 2024 Forbes 30 under 30 in Art and Style, and cofounded the alternative monument and community gathering space "Operations of Care" with Luis Vasquez La Roche, located in Charlottesville, VA. In 2024, Rogers will be installing "Going to Ground," a public sculpture with the Rose Kennedy Greenway, Boston. Rogers is an Assistant Professor in Sculpture within the Department Art at The University of Virginia, and is currently represented by Super Dakota. Photo by Osemwenkhae Studios

Juan Silverio is a curator and arts administrator. They are invested in championing and building community with artists, curators, creatives, and cultural workers from LGBTQ+, Black, Indigenous, and communities of color across Los Angeles (Tovangaar) and beyond. Currently the Assistant Director of Programs at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Juan joined LACE in 2019 as an apprentice, and now runs all exhibitions, programs, and operations. With LACE, recently they co-curated ABUNDANCE (2024), an interdisciplinary and performance art festival held at the L.A. Dance Project. Juan joined the arts and culture field by way of the Getty Marrow Undergraduate Internship program, holding curatorial internships throughout Southern California at the Getty Research Institute, Self-Help Graphics & Art, and the 18th Street Arts Center. They were awarded a Leadership Institute fellowship in Visual Arts with the National Association of Latino Arts & Culture (NALAC) (2023) and was an AllPaper Seminar inaugural fellow at the Benton Museum of Art, Pomona College, Claremont, CA (2022). A member of the National Performance Network (NPN) Board of Directors, Juan contributed writing to the 60th Venice Biennale exhibition and catalogue, Stranieri Ovunque/Foreigners Everywhere (2024), curated by Adriano Pedrosa, and has co-edited the LACE publication for CAVERNOUS: Young Joon Kwak and Mutant Salon (2018). Juan holds BA degrees in Book Arts from the College of Creative Studies and in Chicana/o Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Born and raised in a Mexican Zapotec family in Koreatown, Los Angeles, Juan currently resides in Los Angeles. Headshot by Teresa Kim.