The Block Museum at Northwestern University is a teaching and learning museum whose global program crosses time and place, and serves as a springboard for conversations of relevance to our lives today. blockmuseum.northwestern.edu

Susy Bielak is an artist, writer, educator, and Curator of Public Practice/Associate Director of Engagement at the Block. Prior to the Block, she directed programs at the Walker Art Center. Bielak approaches museums as laboratories and cities as studios. susybielak.com / balasandwax.com

Janet Dees is Curator, focusing on global modern and contemporary art at the Block Museum, Northwestern University. Before joining the Block in 2015, she spent 7 years at SITE Santa Fe, where, among other projects, she was a co-curator of the 1st SITElines: New Perspectives on Art of the Americas.

Samantha Hill is a transdisciplinary artist from Chicago, IL who transforms archival images & material into historical installations.  Her current endeavor, the Kinship Project, is an archive of over 150 years of African-American family photographs from across the US and Europe.   samanthahill.net

Rebecca Zorach is the Mary Jane Crowe Professor in Art and Art History at Northwestern.  She teaches and writes on early modern European art, contemporary activist art, and art of the 1960s and 1970s. She is working on a book on Art & Soul and the landscape of the Black Arts Movement in Chicago.