Nicole E. Soukup is assistant curator of contemporary art and the Minnesota artist exhibition project coordinator, and Robert Cozzolino is the Patrick and Aimee Butler Curator of Paintings, both at at the Minneapolis Institute of Art. Heid E. Erdrich (Ojibwe, Turtle Mountain) is a poet, writer, and editor. Christina Schmid is an arts writer and theorist, as well as aa faculty member in the Department of Art at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.