george emilio sanchez is a writer, performance artist and social activist living and working on the ancestral homelands of the Lenapehoking, or Land of the Lenape, today known as Fort Greene, Brooklyn, New York. Most recently he premiered XIV at Dixon Place in New York City in 2019.  He recently was named the Keith Haring Fellow by the MacDowell in New Hampshire, and he is a Social Practice artist-in-residence at Abrons Arts Center in New York City.  He teaches at the City University of New York's College of Staten Island and is the Performance Director for Emergenyc, a program that explores the intersection between arts and activism. 

Patty Ortiz received BFA from University of Texas and MFA from the University of Texas at San Antonio. Ortiz has exhibited her work throughout the United States and internationally including Mexico City, Chile, and Amsterdam. She received a "New Forms Regional Initiative Grant," funded by the National Endowment for the Arts' InterArts Program and a CoVision Project Grant from the Colorado Council on the Arts. Ortiz has received several public and private commissions including the City of Boulder, The Jeppeson Corporation in Frankfort Germany and Denver International Airport. Since 2015 Ortiz has presented her Work Won't Kill You series at SaltQuarters, Syracuse, New York, Art Produce, San Diego, California, Terminal Gallery, San Antonio, Texas, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Colorado, Luminaria Contemporary Art Festival, San Antonio, Texas and at Emmanuel College in Boston, Massachusettes. In 2020 during the pandemic she was invited to participate in the Citizenship Parade, a socially distant event presented by the Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver and in the fall of 2021 she was resident artist at the Santa Fe Art Institute in Santa Fe, New Mexico.