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Eric Von Haynes is an experienced printmaker and designer with over 15 years of experience leading Flatlands Press, an imprint known for its focus on innovative design and community-based projects. He serves as president of the Chicago Printers Guild, instructor in graphic design at the UIC School of Design, and c-founder of The Love Fridge Chicago, a mutual aid initiative supporting community fridges throughout the city. He teaches offset production in the print media department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he shares his knowledge of design and print techniques, substrate knowledge, and documentation. His work, blending creative and analytical approaches, has been acquired by prominent collections, including the Joan Flasch Artist Book Collection in Chicago, the Center for Book Arts in New York, and the Illinois State Museum. His work has been in exhibitions spanning esteemed venues such as the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, and the Elephant Room Gallery.

Mark Pascale has been active in the Chicago art world for over forty years, as a curator, researcher, and professor. Currently, he is Janet and Craig Duchossois Curator, Prints and Drawings at The Art Institute of Chicago, and concurrently Senior Lecturer of Art in Print Media, at School of the Art Institute. His recent contributions to the field include the exhibitions and catalog essays for Hairy Who? 1966–1969, Charles White: A Retrospective, Along the Lines: Selected Drawings by Saul Steinburg, Martin Puryear: Multiple Dimensions, Contemporary Drawings from the Irving Stenn Jr. Collection, Jasper Johns: Gray, Force of a Dream: The Drawings of Joseph Yoakum, Joseph E. Yoakum: What I Saw, Lygia Pape: Tecelares, and Christina Ramberg: A Retrospective. Currently, he is working on exhibitions focused on the work of Beatriz González, and Gladys Nilsson and Jim Nutt.

Shameekia Shantel Johnson is a writer, curator, and researcher of Afro-Caribbean descent based in New York City. She received a BS in Art History and Museum Professions from The Fashion Institute of Technology. Johnson works from a critical framework of social architecture, in which she considers the multidimensional relationship between people, politics, narrative, and environment. Her curatorial contributions include black beyond: _assembly, alchemy, ascension (2022) at the Anna-Maria and Stephen Gallery of the New School; black beyond: _origins (2021) on New Art City; and The Complexity and Cost of Identity No. 1 (2021), staged at HOUSING. Johnson has written for Art in America, Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles, SEEN Journal, Hyperallergic, and Studio Museum Magazine.