Patrick DeGuira has exhibited his work at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Brooks Museum of Art, Hunter Museum of Art, Cheekwood Museum of Art, as well as numerous commercial, non profit, and university galleries. He is represented by Zeitgeist Gallery. In addition to his exhibition career, he has worked as a museum exhibit designer, educator, and curator. He has co-curated video exhibitions through Fugitive Projects, which has held exhibitions worldwide, including at such venues as La Maison Laurentine (France), MVMA Fest 2010 (Marfa), Emmedia (Calgary), Version 10 Festival Screening (Chicago), Banff Center, and the Dublin Electronic Arts Festival (Ireland). His work has been reviewed and featured in numerous publications, including The Oxford American, New American Paintings, Art Papers, Number, and Art Daily, and he is a recipient of a Tennessee Independent Artist Fellowship Grant, as well as multiple Tennessee professional development support grants. DeGuira received a BFA from Memphis College of Art and his Master of Fine Arts at Vermont College of Fine Arts.

Jodi Hays is a Nashville-based artist and curator. She has exhibited her work at galleries and museums across the United States, including at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Brooks Museum of Art, Wiregrass Museum of Art, Cooper Union, and Boston Center for the Arts. Her work can be found in such important public and private collections as the J. Crew Company, the Tennessee State Museum, and Music City Center. Her work is documented in seven exhibition catalogues, and has been positively reviewed in publications such as Number and Sharon Butler’s Two Coats of Paint. She is a recipient of several awards, from such institutions as the Sustainable Arts Foundation, Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation, and the Tennessee Arts Commission. Hays holds a BFA from the University of Tennessee (Knoxville) and an MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Art. She has earned residencies at the Cooper Union, National Parks of America, and Vermont Studio Center. Hays has been the assistant director at the Cambridge Art Association, maintains a studio and pop-up gallery Dadu in East Nashville, and was a founding member of COOP Gallery. Her work is represented by Red Arrow Gallery in Tenneseee and Art File in New Jersey.

Ron Lambert received his BFA from the University of Connecticut and his MFA from the School of Art and Design at Alfred University. After earning his masters, Ron taught at the Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle at Alfred University, where he received an excellence in teaching award. Lambert’s sculptures have shown in galleries nationally, including at the Urban Institute for Contemporary Art in Michigan, the Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum in San Antonio, the Center on Contemporary Art in Seattle, the New Britain Museum of Art in Connecticut, and the Sculpture Center in Cleveland. His video art pieces have been screened internationally (the Crosstalk Video Festival in Hungary, CICA in South Korea, and the Sanluan Yishu project in China). His work is in the Vascovitz collection, the Swedish Medical Center, and the collection of the Tacoma Art Museum. Lambert is a founding member of COOP in Nashville.

Armon A. Means is an assistant professor and area coordinator of photography at Kansas State University. He received his BFA in photography from The Cleveland Institute of Art and an MFA in photography from Cranbrook Art Academy in Michigan. He has also studied at Lacoste School of the Arts, located in Lacoste, France, and at the School of the Arts in Budapest, Hungary. Means has been an exhibiting fine art photographer and educator since 2003. He has taught at The Cleveland Institute of Art, Watkins College of Art, Nashville State Community College, Volunteer State Community College, and Belmont University. His work has been in group exhibitions in France, Hungary, and numerous states in the U.S. His work centers on ideas of cultural concerns, minority identity, and environmental influences. He is represented in multiple collections across the United States and Germany.

A former professor visual art at St. Thomas Aquinas College, Barbara Yontz holds an MFA in visual art from Vermont College, teaching primarily studio classes in painting, drawing, and photography. She also holds masters degrees in art history from Vanderbilt University and in art education from the University of South Florida. Splitting her time between New York and Nashville, Yontz’s art practice in sculpture, installation, performance explores themes of social justice. Since 2013, she has worked on a project with a group of men living on Death Row at Riverbend Maximum Security Prison in Nashville. This project has yielded a number of exhibitions including Unit 2 Voices: Artwork from Death Row at St. Thomas Aquinas College. Recent individual work includes a group of drawings, “The Love Letter Series,” which she conceived as individual letters to each of the men of Unit 2. Yontz has also exhibited at Vanderbilt University, the Frist Center for Visual Arts, the Phoenix Gallery, the Jose Marti National Library, the Boston Museum School, and the Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences.