Sylvie Fortin is an independent curator, art historian, critic and editor who has worked internationally since 1991. She was Curator of Contemporary Art at the Ottawa Art Gallery (Ottawa, Ontario, 1996—2001), Program Coordinator at la chambre blanche (Quebec City, Quebec, 1991ö1994), and a long-term collaborator with OBORO (Montreal, Quebec, 1994ö2001). Her critical essays have been published in Canadian, American and European catalogues, and her reviews have appeared in many periodicals including Art Press, C Magazine, Espace, Fuse (of which she is a contributing editor), NKA: Journal of Contemporary African Art and Parachute.

Fortin studied Art History at the University of Toronto, Université Laval, and Duke University. She has received numerous significant grants and awards as a critic and curator, as well as for her academic research. Fortin was named Lexus Leader of the Arts in December 2007.

Cullum holds a B.A. in Literature from Eckerd College; an M.A. in Religious Studies from the University of California Santa Barbara, and a Ph.D. from the Institute of the Liberal Arts, Emory University. His poems, collected in two chapbooks and recorded on an audio CD, have appeared in Poetry (Chicago), Midwest Quaterly, and other magazines. Cullum has curated exhibitions for the Telfaire Museum of Arts, Georgia State University, Georgia Perimeter College, the Marietta-Cobb Museum of Art, and private venues, and co-curated an exhibition of Atlanta artists which toured Germany and England in 1996. Cullum has taught at Emory University and the Atlanta College of Art, and served as a Visiting Critic at New castle on Tyne, U.K., and in Shreveport and Alexandria, Louisiana. He regularly lectures and serves as a panelist on contemporary art and related issues.