Gregg Bordowitz is a filmmaker, writer, activist and teacher whose work has been exhibited at the Whitney Museum, The New Museum, Artist's Space, the Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and Tate Modern, among others. His work has been the subject of a traveling retrospective spanning 30 years of activity—Gregg Bordowitz: I Wanna Be Well—first organized by the Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, in 2018; exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago, and MoMA PS1. In the 1980s, Bordowitz focused his creative practice on responding to the AIDS crisis. He organized and documented many protests against government inaction and advocated for health education and harm reduction as a member of the groundbreaking AIDS activist group ACT UP and an educator for GMHC. He also served as a founding member of the 1980s video/film collectives Testing the Limits and Diva TV.

Pamela Sneed is a New York based poet, performer and visual artist. She is the author of Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom Than Slavery (1998), KONG and Other Works (2009), Sweet Dreams (2018) and Funeral Diva (2020). Funeral Diva was featured in the New York Times, Publishers Weekly, Lit Hub, Art Net and more. Funeral Diva also won the 2021 Lambda Lesbian Poetry Award and recommended by The New York Times alongside Barack Obama’s memoir. Additionally in 2021, she was a panelist for The David Zwirner Gallery’s More Life exhibit, and has spoken at Bard Center for Humanities, The Ford Foundation, The Gordon Parks Foundation, Columbia University, The New School, New York Public Library, The Brooklyn Museum, MOMA, DIA, NYU’s Center for the Humanities. She has published in The Paris Review, Frieze, Artforum, The Academy of American Poets, The Brooklyn Rail, THEM, BOMB, and most recently Poetry Magazine. She has appeared in Nikki Giovanni’s “The 100 Best African American Poets." Her visual work was featured at Leslie Lohman Museum, The Ford Foundation, Kates-Ferris and currently at The Lumber Room in Portland. In 2022, she had a solo show at Laurel Gitlen Gallery. She won the 2021 Black Queer Art Mentorship Award. She participated as a reader in the 2022 Whitney Biennial and was a narrator for Coco Fusco’s film, also in the 2022 Whitney Biennial. She has had keynotes at Yale University, Georgetown University and SAIC. She won a BOFFO residency on Fire Island in August 2022. In March 2023, she premiered a solo performance A Tribute to Big Mama Thorton which broke a record at the Armory for the earliest performance ever sold out. She will present a production of A Tribute to Big Mama Thorton at Joes Pub in March 2024.