Tempestt Hazel is a curator, writer, and co-founder of Sixty Inches From Center, a collective of writers, artists, archivists, and arts workers who have published and produced collaborative projects in the Great Lakes region since 2010. Her ongoing work with and beyond Sixty is rooted in advocacy for the creative health and livelihoods of arts workers, the development of restorative cultural infrastructures, and co-creating regional support networks for writers and artists in the Midwest. Most recently, she served as the facilitator and curriculum curator for the 2025 Chicago Critic’s Table (created by Adrienne Brown) and as a member of the Joan Mitchell Foundation’s Creating Future Memory convening and legacy council. Tempestt is a recipient of the 2025 Rabkin Prize for arts writers and the 2019 J. Franklin Jameson Archival Advocacy Award from the Society of American Archivists for her work in Black legacy preservation and artist archives.

Mev Luna is a research-based artist whose practice spans performance, film, new media, and text. Through an autoethnographic methodology, their work reappraises history to identify fictions governing contemporary life and considers issues of institutional access, incarceration, and how images of marginalized groups are circulated and controlled. Luna’s time-based works have premiered at SFMOMA and Artists’ Television Access, San Francisco, The Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago, and Kino Moviemento, Berlin. Their practice has been supported by grants and fellowships from the Art Matters Foundation, New York Council on the Arts, Mellon Initiative for Inclusive Faculty Excellence at The New School, Queer|Art, and by residencies including MASS MoCA, The Wexner Center for the Arts, Cobertizo (Mexico), Chicago Artists Coalition, SOMA Summer Program, and Shandaken: Storm King. Luna is a repeat Visiting Critic in the MFA Painting Department at Yale School of Art, and is currently Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art Practice and Theory at Parsons School of Design, The New School.

Kristina Murray is a curator and cultural producer based in St. Louis, where she currently serves as Gallery Manager at The Luminary. Her curatorial interests center on collaborating with artists engaged in site-responsive, place-based research, often resulting in socially driven projects situated in unconventional spaces such as old-growth forests, historic buildings, native gardens, and urban waterways. Prior to relocating to St. Louis, she was based in Philadelphia, where she held positions at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Glen Foerd, and served as Director of Environmental Art at the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education. She was also the Art Group Lead for the Alliance for Watershed Education, consulting with environmental centers across the Mid-Atlantic on interdisciplinary projects that integrated contemporary art and ecological engagement. Murray holds a master’s degree in art history from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University and a bachelor’s degree from Xavier University. In addition to her curatorial work, she is a certified yoga instructor with an ongoing interest in embodied approaches to space, care, and community.