Christen Clifford is a feminist performance artist, writer, curator, mother, and teaches at Lang College. Her work has been shown at The New Museum, Eva Presenhuber, AUNTSisdance, The Culture Project, PS 122/SoloNova, Grace Exhibition Space, Panoply Lab, Dixon Place, Postmasters Gallery, Vox Populii, ArtShare LA, Project for Empty Space, EFA Project Space, Art in Odd Places and abroad in Slovenia and Canada and across the U.S. Her installation Interiors: We Are All Pink Inside was a Critic’s Pick in Artforum, called “….transgressive, haptic, porous, and intimate.” She is the winner of the Gregory Millard Fellowship in NonFiction writing from NYFA, and fellowships and residencies from Women Make Movies, IFP, Project for Empty Space, Some Serious Business, and The Museum of Motherhood. She organized the first Sexual Justice Symposium at TNS in 2019. At Lang, she has taught What is Rape Culture?, Rape Culture and Sexual Justice, The Body in Performance Art, Contempory Feminisms, and Illness and Healing.

Lauren Gregory is a painter, animator, and educator who was born and raised in the mountains of East Tennessee. A third-generation southern female painter, she began by following in her mother’s and grandmother’s footsteps, often painting portraits of loved ones in quick one-sitting sessions. After earning her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2009, Lauren developed a technique of oil paint stop-motion animation, a way of making her paintings move. She has created GIFs, looped video installations, and music videos for international acts which have screened at MoMA P.S.1, the New Museum, MOCA Los Angeles, and at museums and film festivals around the world. Lauren has completed artist residencies in Budapest, Hungary, in Monte Castello di Vibio, Italy, and in Newburgh, New York. Lauren teaches painting and animation at Parsons School of Design, Temple University and Ox-bow School of Art and Artists’ Residency. She is represented in New York by the Elijah Wheat Showroom. Lauren recently relocated to Nashville where she spends her time painting, teaching, quilting, hiking and making music.

Masha Tupitsyn is a writer, critic, and multimedia artist. She is the author of several books and films, such as Love Dog, LACONIA: 1,200 Tweets on Film, Beauty Talk & Monsters, Picture Cycle, and co-editor of the anthology Life As We Show It: Writing on Film. In 2015, she made the 24-hour film, Love Sounds, an audio-essay and history of love in English-speaking cinema, which concluded an immaterial trilogy that has been exhibited and screened in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Australia. Her new film, BULK COLLECTION, is forthcoming in 2021. Her writing on film, culture, feminism, and art has appeared in numerous anthologies and journals such as Bookforum, Artforum, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Believer, BOMB, LitHub, Fence, Frieze, The New Inquiry, The White Review, and The Rumpus. She has taught film and gender studies at various universities. The first volume of her upcoming book Time Tells will be published in Fall 2021 with Archway Editions/Simon & Schuster. Her website is: https://www.mashatupitsyn.com

Jasmine Wahi is a Curator, Activist, TEDx Speaker, and a Founder and Co-Director of Project for Empty Space. She is the Holly Block Social Justice Curator at the Bronx Museum of the Arts. Her practice predominantly focuses on issues of femme empowerment, complicating binary structures within social discourses, and exploring multipositional cultural identities through the lens of intersectional feminism. In 2020, she curated the two part exhibition Abortion Is Normal, which received wide critical acclaim. In addition to her other work, Ms. Wahi is a faculty member at the School of Visual Arts: MFA Fine Arts department. She is a former board member of the South Asian Women’s Creative Collective (SAWCC), and a volunteer instructor for the Girls Educational Mentoring Services (GEMS) group. Ms. Wahi’s curatorial work has been featured in the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Art News, Art Forum, Hyperallergic, Bloomberg, VICE, and NOWTHIS.