Colleen Brown (Canadian, b. 1965) is an artist, writer, educator and cultural worker who lives and works in Vancouver. Known primarily as a sculptor, Brown explores the relationships of objects and materials as a means of thinking through abstraction and social encounters. Brown holds a BFA from Emily Carr University and an MFA from Bard College. She is currently artist-in-residence with the City of Maple Ridge, and has participated in exhibitions and events at Cooper Cole, Toronto; Vancouver Art Gallery, Burrard Art Foundation and The Apartment, Vancouver; Western Gallery, Bellingham; and Hedreen Gallery, Seattle. Brown is the recipient of a 2016 Portfolio Prize. Brown’s book If you lie down in a field, she will find you there was released in 2023 by Radiant Press.

Jamie Hilder is Associate Professor of Critical and Cultural Studies in the Faculty of Culture and Community at Emily Carr University. His practice, which stretches across writing, video, performance, installation, curation and sculpture, often addresses intersections of text and image, and is currently focused on how economic conditions function aesthetically in an era of global finance capital. His book Designed Words for a Designed World: The International Concrete Poetry Movement, 1955-1971 (McGill UP, 2016) contextualizes concrete visual poetry within a moment of emergent globalizing technologies such as nuclear weaponry, radio transistors, air travel and commercial graphic design. He seeks to foster collaborative relations with colleagues, students and materials where possible, and gratefully resides on the unceded, ancestral and traditional lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), and səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples.

Elizabeth Zvonar (Canadian, b. 1972) is an artist based in Vancouver. She makes objects and pictures that think through metaphor and the metaphysical, often using humour and referencing art history. Zvonar graduated from Emily Carr University after having studied at the Aichi Gakusen University in Toyota City, Japan and the Hokkaido University of Art and Design in Sapporo, Japan. She has had solo exhibitions at SFU Audain Gallery, Vancouver; Polygon Gallery, North Vancouver; and Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto. Her work has been exhibited at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge; Vancouver Art Gallery; Musee d’Art de Joliette, Quebec; and Aga Khan Museum, Toronto. Zvonar has held residencies at Malaspina Printmakers, the Banff Centre, and was a City of Vancouver Artist in Residence 2012-15. She has received awards and recognition including the 2015 Jack and Doris Shadbolt Foundation VIVA Award and was a finalist for the AIMIA | AGO Photography Prize in 2016. Her work was included in the 2021 Gestalten publication The Art of Protest, Political Art + Activism as well as the 2023 Phaidon publication Vitamin C+ Collage in Contemporary Art.