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Hunt Slonem is an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker. He is best known for his Neo-Expressionist paintings of tropical birds, whose works are included in many important museum collections all over the world; he is exhibiting regularly at both public and private venues, and he has received numerous honors and awards. He lives in New York City and Louisiana, where he has notably restored two important plantations to their original states.


Emily Farranto is a writer and artist based in New Orleans. She writes a monthly art column in Antigravity and is the author of the Substack publications Village Disco and Disco Nola. Her writing has appeared in Slate, New Orleans Review, Arts & Letters, and Burnaway. In 2020, she published the illustrated book Animals Mate: A Book About Where Babies Come From (Familius). She is also the author of a novel, The Gulf of New Orleans. Farranto lives in New Orleans with her two sons.

Lara Pan is a curator, writer, and researcher working across contemporary art, science, and speculative systems of knowledge. Her practice explores perception, imagined epistemologies, and the limits of human understanding through exhibitions and research-based projects. She has curated internationally at major museums and biennials, including the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Performa, Kunsthalle Winterthur, MGML Ljubljana, Chelsea Space in London, and the Château de Montsoreau–Museum of Contemporary Art. Her writing appears in The Brooklyn Rail, WhiteHot Magazine, and numerous artist publications.