Dana Gioia is the Poet Laureate of California. He is the author of five collections of poetry, including Interrogations at Noon (2001), which won the American Book Award, and 99 Poems: New & Selected (2016). His three critical collections include Can Poetry Matter? (1992), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Award. Gioia has written three opera libretti and edited twenty literary anthologies. He served as chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts from 2003 to 2009. He holds the Judge Widney Chair of Poetry and Public Culture at the University of Southern California.
Edward Hayes is curator of exhibitions at the Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA), a position he began in 2013 after working at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio. Hayes curated MOLAA's Luis Tapia: Cada mente es un mundo (2017) and has coordinated numerous other MOLAA exhibitions, including Dreamland: A Frank Romero Retrospective (2017), Korda: Revolutionary Photographer (2015), Frida Kahlo, Her Photos (2014), and Neomexicanism (2014). Hayes is author of Dreamland: A Frank Romero Retrospective and has supported several McNay publications, including Andy Warhol: Fame and Misfortune (2012) and Estampas de la Raza: Contemporary Prints from the Romo Collection (2012).
Tey Marianna Nunn is director and chief curator of the art museum and the visual arts program at the National Hispanic Cultural Center. She previously spent a decade as curator of the contemporary Hispano and Latino collections at the Museum of International Folk Art. Nunn is active in issues concerning Latinos, the arts, and museums and has published numerous articles and books on these topics. She has served on the board of directors of the American Alliance of Museums and the Western States Arts Federation and has received several awards and research fellowships. In 2016 President Barack Obama appointed her to the National Museum and Library Services Board.
Carmella Padilla is a Santa Fe journalist, author, and editor who explores art, history, and culture in New Mexico and beyond. Padilla co-edited and contributed to A Red Like No Other: How Cochineal Colored the World (Skira Rizzoli, 2015), winner of the 2017 Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award for distinguished scholarship in art history. Her books include The Work of Art: Folk Artists in the 21st Century (2013) and El Rancho de las Golondrinas: Living History in New Mexico's La Ciénega Valley (2009), and her articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Dallas Morning News, American Craft, and elsewhere. In 2009 Padilla received the New Mexico Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts.
