Greg Youmans is a film scholar and video maker. His research focuses on the politics and aesthetics of queer activist and experimental filmmaking in the 1970s. In 2011, he published a book about the pioneering Bay Area documentary Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives (Mariposa Film Group, 1977), as part of Arsenal Pulp Press's Queer Film Classics series. He is now at work on a larger book project about 1970s queer cinema. With Chris Vargas, he makes short experimental narrative videos, many of them part of the ongoing series Falling In Love… with Chris and Greg.

My research interrogates the intersection of corpses and corporeality as made visible through durational state performances of antiblack violence. My research interests include performance and the historical archive, raced and gendered histories of the body, historical and contemporary racialized violence in the U.S., questions of embodiment, feminist antiracist performance practice, and methodological concerns in art practice. My training is primarily in the field of Performance Studies and its concerns with questions of the body.

Katie Anania is a historian of postwar American and European art and teaches courses at SFAI on contemporary art, intimacy, food cultures, and the history of sculpture. Her doctoral dissertation, which has earned awards from the Getty Research Institute, the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture, the Friends of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries, and the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Research Center, examines the confluence of new drawing strategies and expanding notions of interpersonal communication and disclosure in 1960s urban America.

Glen Helfand is a writer and educator concentrating on contemporary art and culture. His writing appears in Artforum and numerous other publications. He coordinates SFAI’s Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series, which covers a wide range of artistic and critical practices. He is particularly interested in the artist interview as format, art as it relates to commerce, and site-based works. He has curated exhibitions for the de Young Museum, San Jose Museum, Mills College Art Museum, and Dust Gallery in Las Vegas. He is credited as coining the term “Mission School.”