is the Executive Director of Creative Time, a non-profit public arts organization dedicated to presenting new and experimental works by artists of all disciplines. Before coming to Creative Time in Fall, 1994, Ms. Pasternak was the co-founder and director of BRAT, an arts organization committed to bringing innovative works of artistic merit to the public realm. She has worked as an independent curator and writer, served as a curator for Hartford’s Real Art Ways where she organized gallery exhibitions and public art programs of emerging and underrepresented artists, and managed contemporary gallery spaces in both New York City and Boston. She curated the traveling exhibition, Garbage and has published articles in such journals as Bomb Magazine, the Columbia journal of American Studies, the Journal of Contemporary Art and essays in select exhibition catalogues.

MacArthur 'Genius' award-winner Dave Hickey is a freelance writer of fiction and cultural criticism. He currently teaches in the creative writing program at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Hickey has served as owner-director of A Clean Well-Lighted Place gallery in Austin, Texas, as director of the Reese Palley Gallery in New York City, as executive editor of Art in America magazine, and as contributing editor to The Village Voice. He has written for most major American cultural publications including Rolling Stone, Art News, Art in America, Artforum, Interview, Harper's, Vanity Fair, Nest, the New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times. He now serves as contributing editor to Art issues magazine in Los Angeles. Hickey's critical essays on art have been collected in two volumes published by Art Issues Press, The Invisible Dragon: Four Essays on Beauty (1993), which is in its sixth printing, and Air Guitar, Essays on Art and Democracy (1998), now in its third printing. His most recent book, Stardumb (Artspace Press, 1999), is a collection of stories with drawings by artist John DeFazio. He has served as a visiting professor at numerous institutions, including the University of Texas at Austin, The University of California, Santa Barbara, the Otis Parsons Institute, and The Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. Hickey has also been the subject of personal profiles in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, U.S. News and World Report, and Texas Monthly. (from the Int'l Institue of Modern Letters)

Art Critic for the New York Magazine and former Senior Art Critic for the Village Voice, Jerry Saltz has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Criticism three times. In 2000 he was the sole advisor for the 1995 Whitney Biennal. In 2003 Seeing Out Loud: The Village Voice Art Columns, 1998 – 2003, a collection of Saltz’s Village Voice columns, was published by the Figures Press.