Courtney Taylor is the Curator at the LSU Museum of Art. Taylor earned an MA in Museum Studies with a focus on visual culture from the University of Tulsa and BA from Hendrix College in history and art history. Taylor has worked in curatorial departments at the Arts & Science Center for Southeast Arkansas; Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville; Philbrook Museum; and Gilcrease Museum. Eleanor Heartney is a contributing editor at Art in America and has written extensively for publications such as ARTnews, The Washington Post, The New York Times , and The Brooklyn Rail . She has authored several books on contemporary art including Art and Today; Defending Complexity: Art, Politics, and the New World Order; Postmodernism; Postmodern Heretics: The Catholic Imagination and Contemporary Art; and Critical Condition: American Culture at the Crossroads . She co-authored After the Revolution: Women Who Transformed Contemporary Art and The Reckoning: Women Artists of the New Millennium . Heartney is a recipient of the College Art Association's Frank Jewett Mather Award for distinction in art criticism. Kelli Scott Kelley is a professor of painting at Louisiana State University.

Kelley received her MFA from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She authored a book featuring her narrative artwork, entitled Accalia and the Swamp Monster , in 2014. Her work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally at museums such as the Ogden Museum of Southern Art; the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; and the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art. Kelley's work is featured in the permanent collections of the LSU Museum of Art, Tyler Museum of Art, and the Eugenia Summer Gallery.