Dionne Lee (American, b. 1988) works in photography, collage, and video to explore power, survival, and personal history in relation to the American landscape. She received her MFA from California College of the Arts in 2017. She has exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver), Yancey Richardson, and Aperture Foundation in New York City; New Orleans Museum of Art; and the San Francisco Arts Commission, among others. Lee was a 2022 Artist-in-Residence at The Chinati Foundation and Unseen California. Lee is an Assistant Professor at The Ohio State University and lives on the unceded territories of the Shawnee, Potawatomi, Delaware, Miami, Peoria, Seneca, Wyandotte, Ojibwe, and Cherokee peoples.

Victoria Sambunaris (American, b. 1964) is a photographer who crosses the country alone by car several months out of the year equipped with a 5×7 inch field camera, film, a video camera, and research material, creating large-scale photographs that document the continuing transformation of the American landscape. Her ongoing series, “Taxonomy of a Landscape,” encompasses over 20 years of this work as a photographer and researcher. Sambunaris received a BA from Mount Vernon College in 1986 and an MFA from Yale University School of Art in 1999. Her work has been widely exhibited in museums and galleries throughout the United States and can also be seen in numerous collections throughout the United States, including those of the Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. 

Edra Soto (Puerto Rican, b. 1971) is an artist, curator, educator, and co-director of outdoor project space The Franklin. Soto instigates meaningful, relevant, and often difficult conversations surrounding socioeconomic and cultural oppression, erasure of history, and loss of cultural knowledge. Having grown up in Puerto Rico, and now immersed in her Chicago community, the artist has evolved to raise questions through her work about constructed social orders, diasporic identity, and the legacy of colonialism. Soto has exhibited extensively at venues including the Museum of Contemporary Art of Chicago (IL), El Museo del Barrio (NY), ICA San Diego (CA), and the Whitney Museum of American Art (NY). She has been awarded the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant, the Efroymson Contemporary Arts Fellowship, the Illinois Arts Council Agency Fellowship, the inaugural Foundwork Artist Prize, the Bemis Center’s Ree Kaneko Award, and the US LatinX Art Forum Fellowship among others.

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.