Jordan Belson (born 1926, Chicago, Illinois -) is an American artist and filmmaker who has created nonobjective, often spiritually oriented, abstract films spanning six decades. Belson studied Abstract Expressionist painting at the University of California, Berkeley. While he was there he saw the "Art in Cinema" screenings at the San Francisco Museum of Art in 1946. This screening series inspired Harry Smith and Belson to produce abstract films.

Carl Morris (1911-1993) was an American artist. Morris was born in Yorba Linda, California and he studied at the Chicago Art Institute and in Paris and Vienna. He opened the Spokane Art Center through the Federal Art Project during the Great Depression. He met his wife, sculptor Hilda Grossman (Deutsch) when he recruited her as a teacher for the center. Other notable teachers at the center include Guy Anderson and Clyfford Still.

Russell Cheney (1881-1945) was an American painter. He graduated from Yale, where he was a member of the Skull and Bones secret society. Cheney studied painting at the Art Students League of New York and was its acting president in 1909-10. He held his first New York exhibition in Babcock Galleries 1922.

John Chin Young was a painter who was born in Honolulu on March 26, 1909. He was the son of Chinese immigrants and began drawing at the age of eight, stimulated by Chinese calligraphy, which he learned in Chinese language school. Young had his first and only art lessons while a student at McKinley High School in Honolulu. Thereafter, his art was entirely self-taught. Young is best known for his Zen-like depictions of horses, but he also painted landscapes, children, …

James S. Strombotne (born 1934) is an American painter. He was born in Watertown, South Dakota, but was raised and educated in Southern California, receiving his Bachelor of Arts from Pomona College in 1956 and his Master of Fine Arts from the Claremont Graduate School in 1959. He received a fellowship from Pomona College to study in Italy, and in 1962 was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for further study in Rome.

Vostanik Manoog Adoyan, (better known as Arshile Gorky was an Armenian American painter who was as a seminal influence on Abstract Expressionism.

Jules Engel (11 March 1909-6 September 2003) was a Jewish-Hungarian American filmmaker, animator, painter,sculptor, and teacher. He is most remembered as the founding director of the Experimental Animation Program at the California Institute of the Arts, where he taught until his death, serving as mentor to several generations of animators.

Sue is a Professor of Art and Drawing at The University of Iowa School of Art where she has taught since 1977. She did a graduate study at Yale University and the University of New Mexico before moving to New York City. Her work has been exhibited and collected nationally for the past 25 years and is included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Art, The Art institute of Chicago among many others.

Gregory Amenoff was born in Illinois, and studied at Beloit College . His exhibitions include solo shows at the Universities of Tennessee and Wisconsin , Nielsen Gallery in Boston, Stephen Wirtz Gallery in San Francisco, Hirschl & Adler Modern , Robert Miller , and Betsy Senior Galleries in NY, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park in Boston, Tampa Museum, Norton Gallery of Art in West Palm Beach, and in Chicago, Philadelphia, Santa Fe, and Paris.

Vance Kirkland graduated from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1928. In 1929, he moved to Denver to establish the University of Denver Art School. The school originated in the Chappell House. In 1932, he founded the Kirkland School of Art, which became an affiliate of the University of Denver in 1946. Vance Kirkland taught classes in drawing, painting, design, advertising art and interior decoration.

Seth Feman : Seth received a BA in art history from Vassar College and an MA in American studies from the College of William and Mary, where he is continuing to work on his PhD. Seth has held several internships, including positions at the San Francisco Museum of Art, Newsweek Magazine , and Artforum International . This summer Seth is working in the department of photographs on an upcoming exhibition of the work of Robert Frank.