Kathleen Ash-Milby is the Curator of Native American Art at the Portland Art Museum, appointed in 2019. Previously, she organized numerous solo exhibitions at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian with artists including Oscar Howe (2022), Kay WalkingStick (2015), Meryl McMaster (2015), C. Maxx Stevens (2012), and Julie Buffalohead (2012). Her critically acclaimed thematic group exhibitions of Native art across a range of media include Transformer: Native Art in Light and Sound (2021) and Off the Map: Landscape in the Native Imagination (2007). From 2001 to 2005, she was curator and co-director of the American Indian Community House Gallery in New York City, a foundational community-based nonprofit gallery. Ash-Milby has published widely, including contributions to books, exhibition catalogues, and publications such as Art in America and Art Journal. In 2015, she was a fellow in the Center for Curatorial Leadership Program in New York. A member of the Navajo Nation, she earned her master of arts in Native American art history from the University of New Mexico.

Louis Grachos is the Phillips Executive Director of SITE Santa Fe (SITE), appointed in 2021. With a thirty-year career in arts leadership, Grachos is recognized for his artist-centric vision and extensive relationships with artists and community collaborators. He helped launch SITE's Biennial, the first international art biennial in the United States, in his previous role as SITE's director from 1996 to 2003. At the 47th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia in 1997, Grachos oversaw the groundbreaking presentation of works by Robert Colescott, the first Black artist to represent the United States in a single-artist exhibition at the Biennale. Grachos served for two years as the CEO and JoAnn McGrath Executive Director of the Palm Springs Art Museum. From 2003 to 2012, he was the Ernest and Sarah Butler Executive Director and CEO of The Contemporary Austin in Texas and the executive director of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in New York, now renamed the Buffalo AKG Art Museum. He received a bachelor of arts from the University of Toronto and a certification in museum studies from John F. Kennedy University.

Abigail Winograd is an independent curator and writer. She was previously curator-at-large and MacArthur Fellows Program Fortieth Anniversary Exhibition Curator at the University of Chicago's Gray Center for the Arts and Inquiry, a role she originated at the Smart Museum of Art in Chicago. She is currently co-director and chief curator of Pueblo Unido Gallery, a community-generated art space situated within Centro Romero, a social service organization serving and advocating for the immigrant community on Chicago's North Side. Winograd's scholarly work focuses on postwar abstraction in South America and institutional approaches to expanding canonical histories. She has held positions at the Frans Hals Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Blanton Museum of Art, and Art Institute of Chicago and has curated exhibitions around the world. She has contributed to books and museum catalogues, published academic articles, and written for publications such as Bomb, Mousse Magazine, Frieze, and Artforum. She received a doctorate in art history from the University of Texas at Austin and has additional degrees from Northwestern University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.