Masha Chlenova is a modernist art historian and curator. She held curatorial positions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim, MoMA and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. She organized independent exhibitions in galleries and non-profit art spaces in New York City and has acted as curatorial consultant for the Art Institute of Chicago and Muzeum Sztuki in Lodz, Poland. She has been teaching in the Visual Studies program at Eugene Lang College for over 10 years.

Beth Dincuff Charleston is a design historian whose career highlights include curating the 2013 exhibition "Sophie Gimbel and the Salon Moderne: Fashioning American Couture” presented at the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center and Saks Fifth Avenue’s flagship store. Previously, she was the Manager of Archive and Digital Services at Calvin Klein, Inc. as well as Research Associate in the collection at the Costume Institute, Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Alhena Katsof is a curator and writer who works in close conversation with artists. Many of her exhibitions have been organized in spaces that emerged from the alternative space movement including White Columns, MoMA PS1, and Participant Inc. Katsof’s essays have been published in volumes such as Nicole Eisenman: Sturm und Drang; On the Necessity of Gardening: An ABC of Art, Botany, and Cultivation; and The Artist as Curator: An Anthology. Among her curatorial projects is Towards the Unknown, an exhibition of scores and drawings by the autophysiopsychic musician Yusef Lateef. Katsof is Assistant Professor in the Visual Studies Program in the Department of the Arts at Eugene Lang College | The New School.

Ulrich Lehmann trained as a printer and bookbinder, worked as a graphic designer, and then pursued studies in the humanities and social sciences in Frankfurt a.M. (Germany), Paris and London. He completed a PhD in 1996 and started work at universities, teaching discursive seminars as well as creative studios. Concurrently, he curated exhibitions, for example Addressing the Century (1997-98) at the Hayward Gallery in London (as associate curator), Chic Clicks at the ICA Boston (2001-02, sole curator), or Auto-Nom: The Car as Independent Object in Contemporary Art, NRW Forum, Düsseldorf (Germany) (2003-04, sole curator). Between September 2002 and January 2007 Lehmann was course leader at the Royal College of Art and the Victoria & Albert Museum, working with students within globally one of the most comprehensive collections of industrial, decorative and applied arts. At the V&A he worked on, for instance, Designing a New World: Modernism (2006) or Surreal Things (2007). At The New School, since 2015, Lehmann has been teaching a number of curatorial studies courses, e.g. at graduate level with the Cooper-Hewitt on museum pedagogy and development, at undergraduate level on art fabrication, designing environments and displays.

Eriola Pira is a researcher and curator. She is the Curator and Director of Programs at the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School, where she organizes and co-curates across the Center’s programs and initiatives. In this capacity, she works closely with artists to explore, commission, and present new ideas and work on art and its politics, including exhibitions, performances, and publications. She curated and organized residency and fellowship programs, conferences, publications, and solo and group exhibitions at Art in General, NARS Foundation, and The Foundation for Culture and Society, where she held previous positions. She’s contributed to and collaborated with institutions worldwide on exhibitions, publications, symposia, commissions, and special projects. Her work has been published and featured in catalogs and publications such as The New York Times, Hyperallergic, BOMB Magazine, and Artforum. She has served as an editor at Guernica and guest editor for Kosovo 2.0 magazines. A native of Albania, Pira has an MA in Visual Culture Theory from New York University.

Dr. Alexis Romano is a scholar of fashion, design history and visual culture, whose work explores 20th-century fashion, photography, women's history, clothing archives, and everyday and subjective aspects of dress. She is a part-time Assistant Professor at Parsons School of Design, and has held curatorial and teaching fellowships at the Costume Institute (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2020-1) and Wesleyan University (2024-5). Recent publications include Prêt-à-Porter, Paris and Women: A Cultural Study of French Readymade Fashion, 1945-68 (Bloomsbury, 2022), and chapters in American Fashion: Agency, Identity and Everyday Life (Bloomsbury, 2024), Chloé: Gaby Aghion and the Mood of the Moment (Yale, 2023), Woman Before Fashion: Diane Von Furstenberg (Rizzoli, 2023).