Burt Aaron is a Detroit based art collector born and raised in Southfield, Michigan. For over 25 years, he has made a practice of supporting artists working in a variety of media, who represent diverse sociopolitical perspectives. As a practice, Aaron purchases artworks with the intent to place them within institutional collections, assisting artists in building their reputations and careers. He has developed relationships with a wide range of curators of modernist and contemporary art, and has gifted and loaned works to the Los Angles Country Museum of Art; the Studio Museum in Harlem; the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Detroit Institute of Art; Wayne State University; and the Tate Modern.

Ed Fraga was born in Imlay City, Michigan. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1980 from Wayne State University, and in 2007 was recognized with a distinguished Alumnus Award. Ed is primarily a figurative painter but also develops object based work in his practice. His paintings and drawings are in the public collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Eli and Edythe Broad Museum of Art, East Lansing, the Detroit Institute of Arts and Cranbrook Art Museum. Ed had shown his work both nationally and internationally with two solo shows in 2002 and 2007 in New York City, and in 2015 a solo in Esslingen, Germany. He is a recipient of a Detroit Kresge Artist Fellowship, an Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Grant, a Bellagio Center Residency: The Rockefeller Foundation, and a National Endowment for the Arts. Ed lives in Detroit and maintains a studio in Ferndale, Michigan.

Grace Serra has been the Art Collection Curator at Wayne State University since 2017, bringing over 30 years of experience in public art, arts administration and cultural programming. She has coordinated large-scale public art projects across Detroit, led Arts in Health initiatives with major institutions and oversaw grant-funded interdisciplinary research as both Principal Investigator and Co-Co-Principal Investigator.

Christopher D. Stackhouse, an arts writer, curator and teacher, his essays on art and culture have appeared in many books, periodicals and journals. Recent credits - The Basquiat Reader: Writings, Interviews, and Critical Responses edited by Jordana Moore Saggese (University of California Press); and The Wayland Rudd Collection: Exploring Racial Imaginaries in Soviet Visual Culture edited by Yevgeniy Fiks (Ugly Duckling Presse/D.A.P.) Stackhouse is a Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, at Bard College alum, and a Cave Canem Writers Fellow. He has taught at Ohio State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Bloomfield College of Montclair State University, and the Maryland Institute College of Art, among other institutions.

Isabelle Weiss is an Accredited Appraiser and Contemporary Fine/Decorative Arts specialist based in Detroit, MI with over a decade of art market experience from auction cataloging to appraisal and collection advisory. Weiss has executed collection management services for a broad range of clients, including: private collectors and their professional advisors, corporate collectors, and educational institutions. Isabelle is also the founder and director of Detroit-based I.M. Weiss Gallery which has supported artists working in craft and design disciplines since 2014.