Mitra Khoresheh is a Canadian curator, writer, educator and the owner of Signs and Symbols gallery located in downtown New York, NY.

Salvador Jimenez-Flores is an interdisciplinary artist. Born and raised in Jalisco, México, he is also an Assistant Professor in Ceramics at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago, IL.

Kalup Linzy is an interdisciplinary artist, curator and one of our esteemed CVA Mentors currently based in Tulsa, OK.

Miguel Luciano is a multimedia visual artist whose work explores themes of history, popular culture, social justice and migration, through sculpture, painting and socially engaged public art projects. Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, he lives and works in New York, NY. 

The Leon and Gloria Plevin Family Museum Director Lecture with Brooke Davis Anderson, Edna S. Tuttleman Director of the Pennsylvania Academy of Art Museum in Philadelphia, PA.

Shervone Neckles, Interdisciplinary Artist, Educator, Arts Administrator, lives and works in New York.

Julia Bottoms, Artist, lives and works in Buffalo, NY.

Chris Friday, Artist, and Chautauqua School of Art Alumnus ('19), lives and works in Miami, FL

Seph Rodney, Writer, Editor and Museum Scholar, lives and works in Bronx, NY.