Bryant’s cinematic endeavors include co-directing the award-winning documentary “Flag Wars” in 2003, addressing gentrification’s impact on marginalized communities. This acclaimed work earned her a Peabody Award and subsequent Guggenheim Fellowship. Beyond film, Bryant’s commitment to community empowerment is evident in Project EATS, founded in 2008, an initiative of the Active Citizens Project, through which Goode Bryant works with a team to grow fresh produce in New York City and provide it to underserved communities in food deserts, like in the Brownsville neighborhood in Brooklyn.

Furthering her impact, Bryant founded the Active Citizen Project, utilizing art and media to mobilize youth in civic engagement. With accolades such as the 2020 Berresford Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a robust educational background, including an MBA from Columbia University and a BA from Spelman College in painting, Bryant’s multifaceted contributions resonate across disciplines, championing social change and artistic expression.

Sandy is currently the Inaugural Curatorial Fellow 2024-2025 with Antenna, New Orleans. She has been a Visiting Assistant Professor at Pratt Institute, School of Art since Fall 2019 teaching Fine Arts graduate and undergraduate students. At Pratt, Niama is a recipient of the 2023 Faculty Development Fund and the 2022-23 and 2023-24 School of Art Dean’s Innovation Fund grants. Since 2021, she has also been the Manager of Grants and Education Programs for the Black Artists + Designers Guild (BADG). Thus far in her role, Niama has delivered over $50,000 of funding directly to artists. Sandy also served as Consulting Producer for New York Winter Jazz Fest 2021, the Inaugural Curator-and-Writer-in-Residence at Fridman Gallery (2021), and Performance Curator at TEDWomen 2021. She has served on panels and in advisory capacities for Artadia, The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the Bemis Center, Chamber Music America, En Foco, and many other national arts organizations.

Niama has mounted exhibitions across the United States and internationally, including Black Magic: AfroPasts/AfroFutures (2016 and 2017), Refraction: New Photography of Africa and its Diaspora (2018), In Plain Sight/Site (2018). Niama has presented, co-convened, and participated in programs at Creative Time, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, MICA, the World Around Summit, Harvard University, National Sawdust, Oberlin College, The Public Theater, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, 1014 & more. Sandy has utilized her exhibition and programmatic work as a healing and generative space, a portal for transmutation to activating inquiry and reflection into our relationships with beauty, history, creativity, power, and life itself. No matter the disciplinary intersections her work crosses, she sifts through the remnants of history in the hope of lifting us all to a higher state of historical, ontological, and spiritual wholeness in the process. In recent years this has extended to the creation of new initiatives and programs.

Among Niama’s collaborative initiatives are The Blacksmiths, a national coalition of artists, presenters, and producers across disciplines specifically dedicated to transforming the way Black art professionals are stewarded into the space founded in 2020. In 2022, Sandy co-founded THIS IS A MOVEMENT, an initiative seeking to create a more equitable, non-hierarchical, collaborative, and imaginative music industry through an intersectional Black feminist lens. She is also a member of the artist collectives the Resistance Revival Chorus and the Wide Awakes.

She has completed commissioned writing on artists including Milford Graves, Dindga McCannon, Jamea Richmond-Edwards, Nate Lewis, Zina Saro-Wiwa, Rachel Stern, Brittany Leeanne Williams, and many others. Sandy and her work have been featured in The New York Times, Monopol, Teen Vogue, The Washington Post, Hyperallergic, Camera Austria, OkayAfrica, CultureType, and other publications. Her writing has been featured in Artsy, Active Cultures LA, NATAAL, and more.

Bae is an ArtTable Fellowship Alumna who worked closely with the Capital One Art Program. This opportunity provided her with invaluable experience in developing a discerning eye for art curation and honing her research skills. The successful completion of this project provides Sophie with a solid foundation for her future endeavors and contributes to the promotion and enrichment of the Capital One Center’s permanent art collection.

Sophie volunteered her skills in marketing and communications at ArtTable in Washington DC and works as a contractor with Art in Embassies: U.S. Department of State, further expanding her involvement in the art world. Sophie is an accomplished and creativity-oriented visual director, showcasing expertise in photography, videography, graphic design, digital asset management, exhibition management, and arts management.

Cassel Oliver has also mounted significant survey exhibitions for Benjamin Patterson, Donald Moffett, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Jennie C. Jones, Angel Otero and Annabeth Rosen. Her 2018 debut exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts was a 50-year survey of work by Howardena Pindell entitled Howardena Pindell: What Remains to be Seen. The exhibition co-organized with Naomi Beckwith, the Manilow Senior Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, was named one of the most influential of the decade. Most recently, Cassel Oliver organized the exhibition, Cosmologies from the Tree of Life that featured over thirty newly acquired works from the Souls Grown Deep Foundation. She is currently developing the group exhibition, The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture and the Sonic Impulse, scheduled to open at the VMFA May, 2021. Cassel Oliver is the recipient of a Getty Curatorial Research Fellowship (2007); the High Museum of Art’s David C. Driskell Award (2011); the Arthur and Carol Kaufman Goldberg Foundation-to-Life Fellowship at Hunter College (2016) and the James A. Porter Book Award from Howard University (2018). From 2016-17, she was a Senior Fellow in Curatorial Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is currently a visiting scholar at the University of Texas at Austin. Cassel Oliver holds a M.A. in art history from Howard University in Washington, D.C. and, B.S. in communications from the University of Texas at Austin.

Anne is a proud member of New York’s Bowery Gallery collective. She uses drawing and painting to make sense of socio-political issues in the current climate. Many national organizations have recognized Anne’s vision for philanthropy and support of women’s empowerment, including the Ms. Foundation, the New York Women’s Foundation, the Korean American Family Service Center, and the Women’s Funding Network. Anne served as a board member for Peace is Loud, the Ms. Foundation, and as an Advisory Council member of Common Justice. For 20 years, she has also served as a board member of the New York Women’s Foundation.