Buzz Slutzky is an artist, writer, performer, and educator whose practice incorporates drawing, painting, sculpture, performance, and video. Their visual art and writing often play between autobiographical and historical content. Their work builds upon trans, queer, feminist, and leftist Jewish cultural traditions with an often humorous and frank voice. Their writing has included memoir, poetry, creative nonfiction, and criticism. They were a 2015 resident at the Vermont Studio Center and a 2017 resident at the NARS Foundation in Brooklyn. They currently teach at CUNY College of Staten Island and SUNY Purchase College.

Hannah Hiaasen is an interdisciplinary artist whose work interweaves between performance, textile and text. In 2014, they earned a Bachelors of Fine Art in fiber from Maryland Institute College of Art. Their performances have shown nationally and internationally, exhibiting at Freie Universitat, Berlin, Germany (2015), Yale School of Art (2016), New Haven, CT, and a 14-city, cross-mid-country tour with NY-based performer Jennifer Vanilla (2018). Their textiles, specifically their norm-critical clothing collection Ventilated Workwear is collected privately and publicly such as at Yale School of Art’s costume archive for Barbara Hammer (2017) and Patricia Field’s Showroom (2016).