Cecilia Mandrile (Born Argentina, 1969) is a visual artist whose print-based practice explores the fragmentation and fluidity of identity caused by displacement. She has exhibited in prestigious international venues such as El Museo del Barrio, New York; The Victoria & Albert Museum, London; WPA Corcoran, Washington DC; the National Museum of Fine Arts, Buenos Aires, Emilio Caraffa Museum and Genaro Perez Museum, Córdoba, Argentina. Mandrile has been a resident fellow artist at international programs such as Gasworks Studios, London; Makan-Bait, Amman, Jordan, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, Kunstihoone, Tallinn, Estonia, Zona Imaginaria, Buenos Aires, Argentina, The Centre for Fine Print Research, Bristol, UK and the Ludwig Foundation of Cuba. Her work is included in private and public collections around the world; among them, the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Casa de las Americas, Havana, Cuba; Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium; Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, California and the City Museum of Art, Gyor, Hungary. As a curator, Mandrile co-developed the international project “The World is a Handkerchief’’ inviting mentors, peers and students to collaborate in a wandering exhibition of 144 printed handkerchiefs. Venues include the London Print Studio Gallery, Blackburn 20|20 Gallery, EFA, NYC, Proyecto’ace, Buenos Aires, Argentina, IMPACT 12, International Print Conference, Bristol, UK and the Coral Gables Museum, USA. Mandrile holds a PhD from the University of the West of England, an MFA from the University of Maryland and a BFA from the National University of Córdoba. She has taught in the United States, Argentina, Jordan, Spain, England and KSA. 

Lynn Bechtold is a violinist and composer. She has appeared in recital throughout the Americas, as well as in Asia and Europe. She has premiered solo/chamber works by composers such as Carter Burwell, Gloria Coates, Beatriz Ferreyra, Alvin Lucier, and Morton Subotnick. Well-versed in all styles of music, she has performed at venues from (le) Poisson Rouge and Madison Square Garden to Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, with artists such as Willie Colon, Roberta Flack, Donna Summer, and Sir Simon Rattle. As a composer, she has participated in festivals/series such as the Birmingham New Music Festival, Composers Concordance, Japan Society for Sonic Arts, Music With a View, Sonic Circuits, and the Sound of Silent Film Festival, and her music has been performed at venues such as Experimental Sound Studio in Chicago, Institute Finlandais in Paris, and Koncertkirken in Copenhagen. Upcoming works include a string quartet for the Overlook Quartet, to be premiered at Symphony Space in April, as well as a work for violin duo and electronics about Marlene Dietrich. She is a member of innovative violin duo Miolina; co-directs the Ladies First concert series; and is on the board of New York Women Composers. She holds degrees from Tufts University, New England Conservatory of Music, and Mannes School of Music | The New School. An active teaching artist, she is on the faculties of The Dwight School, Greenwich House Music School, and The Town School in NYC.