Mequitta Ahuja, who holds an MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago, lives and works in Baltimore. Her paintings have appeared in solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago; the Lawndale Art Center in Houston; Arthouse in Austin; Galerie Nathalie Obadia in Paris; and BravinLee Programs in New York. Ahuja has also exhibited work at the Bakersfield Museum of Art in California; the Brooklyn Museum; the Museum of Fine Arts Houston; the Ulrich Museum in Wichita, Kansas; the Studio Museum in Harlem; and the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC, among others.

Carl Bower is a Pulitzer Prize finalist whose work has been featured in the New York Times, the Sunday Times Magazine of London, and TIME magazine, and in galleries in New York, Chicago, Seattle, Phoenix, Portland, Oregon, and Los Angeles. Currently based in Denver, Bower previously spent fifteen years as a photojournalist for Newhouse News Service, the Times-Picayune, Helsingin Sanomat, and the Providence Journal. Chica Barbie was recently exhibited at the Blue Sky Gallery in Portland, and was added to the collection of the Portland Art Museum.