Jeannine Chartier, who survived polio as an infant, was recruited in 1988 by the Rhode Island State Arts Council to help create VSA arts of Rhode Island while working in Rhode Island and New York City as a designer in the cultural arts, fashion, and jewelry industries. In 1996, she was asked to serve as Executive Director. Her visual work incorporates both digital technology and mixed media fabrication, referencing images of personal and political identity. Chartier's artwork has been purchased through the State of Rhode Island's 1% for Public Arts Project for permanent display at the Rhode Island Department of Education and Rhode Island Disability Law Center. She serves as an Advisory Board member of Project New Directions at RISD and on Governor Almond's Literacy in the Arts Task Force. Chartier is also a member of the Rhode Island Arts Learning Network and the Access Committee at RISD Museum of Art.

Amy Horschak is an educator in the Department of Education at New York's Museum of Modern Art. She has developed numerous long-running programs at the Museum for high school and college students, international arts professionals, artists, teachers, and scholars. These initiatives include the High School Museum Studies Program; the award-winning Red Studio (a Web site for teens); International Museum Professional workshops with arts professionals from Africa, Central and Eastern Europe, East Asia, India, Latin America; and the annual Graduate Symposium for emerging scholars. She was a member of the curatorial team of Open Ends at MoMA, curator for Three Generations of Abstract Painting at the Hunter College Art Gallery in New York, and co-curator of the 2006 Dakar Biennial in Dakar, Senegal.

Stacey Schmidt is an independent curator and was most recently the Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. While at the Corcoran, she organized the following exhibitions: William Newman: Peripheral Vision; Fashioning Art: Handbags by Judith Leiber, and the 48th Corcoran Biennial: Closer to Home. Prior to 2001, Schmidt was an independent curator, writer, and exhibitions coordinator in New York City. Based in Brooklyn, she wrote extensively for The Metropolitan Museum of Art's website, and coordinated major traveling exhibitions. She composed Hard Pressed: 600 Years of Prints and Process, organized by The International Print Center New York, as well as the independent exhibition Roy Lichtenstein: Mirrors and Reflections that opened at the Chiostro del Bramante in Rome. Schmidt also held the position of Senior Curatorial Assistant for Prints and Drawings at The Whitney Museum of American Art.

Roman Terleckyj is Vice President for Artistic Planning at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts where he oversees over 2,000 performances and exhibits each season. Terleckyj spent the last 30 years working in arts administration, with a focus in opera production, festivals, and international arts presentation. He serves as producer, artistic and stage director for popular entertainment and crossover artists, including Andrea Bocelli, the Irish Tenors, and most recently Julie Andrews. In addition to a ten-year series of presentations of the Kirov Opera and Ballet, Terleckyj produced the last six annual Spring Galas for the Kennedy Center, which have raised more than $11 million to support educational programs. Terleckyj was also assistant to composer Gian Carlo Menotti. Terleckyj continues his work as an international opera stage director, with productions in Italy, Germany, England, Ireland, China, Australia, and North America.