Sam Contis (American, b. 1982) works primarily in photography and moving image. Recent shows include a 2022 early-career survey, Transit, at the Carré d’Art in Nîmes, France, and a collaboration, Duet, with the vocalist Inbal Hever at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York. Her work has been shown in group exhibitions at the Barbican Art Gallery, London; the Gropius-Bau, Berlin; the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. She is the recipient of a 2024 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship (2022). Contis’s work is represented in collections including the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Carré d’Art, Nîmes; and Centre Pompidou, Paris. Contis has published three monographs: Deep Springs (Mack, 2017), Day Sleeper (Mack, 2020), and Overpass (Aperture, 2022). Contis received her BFA from New York University and her MFA from Yale University, where she is currently a Visiting Critic in Photography. 

Raven Chacon (Diné, b. 1977) is a composer, performer and installation artist from Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation. As a solo artist, Chacon has exhibited, performed, or had works performed at LACMA, The Renaissance Society, San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, REDCAT, Vancouver Art Gallery, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Borealis Festival, SITE Santa Fe, Chaco Canyon, Ende Tymes Festival, and The Kennedy Center. As a member of Postcommodity from 2009-2018, he co-created artworks presented at the Whitney Biennial, documenta 14, Carnegie International 57, as well as the 2-mile long land art installation Repellent Fence. A recording artist over the span of 22 years, Chacon has appeared on more than eighty releases on various national and international labels. In 2022, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Music for his composition Voiceless Mass. 

William L. Fox is founding Director of the Center for Art + Environment at the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno, Nevada, and has variously been called an art critic, science writer, and cultural geographer. He has published fifteen books on cognition and landscape, hundreds of essays in art monographs, magazines, and journals, and fifteen collections of poetry. Among his nonfiction titles are Aereality: On the World from Above (Counterpoint, 2009); Terra Antarctica: Looking into the Emptiest Continent (Trinity University Press, 2005); In the Desert of Desire: Las Vegas and the Culture of Spectacle (University of Nevada Press, 2005); and The Void, the Grid, and the Sign: Traversing the Great Basin (University of Utah Press, 2000). His most recent book is Michael Heizer: The Once and Future Monuments (The Monacelli Press, 2019). 

Mark Armijo McKnight (American, b. 1984) is an artist whose work has been exhibited internationally. His work has been written about in the Los Angeles Times, Interview, The New Yorker, GQ Magazine, Aperture, Art in America, Frieze, ArtForum, Brooklyn Rail, Mousse and BOMB Magazine, among others. His work is in the collection of The Henry Art Gallery (Seattle, WA), Victoria and Albert Museum (London, UK), the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles, CA) and The Getty Museum (Los Angeles, CA). His first monograph, Heaven is a Prison, was published in September 2020. Armijo-McKnight is a Fulbright Scholar (2008-9), the recipient of the 2019 Aperture Portfolio Prize, The 2020 Light Work Photo Book Award, a 2020 Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist Grant, and is a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow. His second monograph, Posthume, is forthcoming (TBW Books, Oakland, CA, 2025). 

Venus Williams With 7 Grand Slam titles, 5 Wimbledon championships and 4 Olympic gold medals, tennis champion Venus Williams is arguably one of the most accomplished and inspiring women in the history of sports. Beginning her rise to the top at the age of 14, Venus quickly took the world of tennis by storm, rising to the top-ranked position, breaking countless records, and winning numerous championships.