Marilu Knode is a curator of contemporary global art living in St. Louis. She has worked at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Newport Harbor Art Museum, inova (the Institute of Visual Arts), Milwaukee, the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art and F.A.R. (Future Arts Research) @ ASU. She is currently Executive Director at the Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis and Aronson Endowed Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Marlon Blackwell FAIA is a practicing architect in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and serves as the E. Fay Jones Distinguished Professor at the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design at the University of Arkansas.