Michele Asselin is a Los Angeles-based artist whose work explores the impact of the social and physical environment on human experience. Asselin draws on editorial techniques to examine how people and places come to reflect the systems of which they are a part. Asselin worked for the Associated Press in the Middle East while living in Jerusalem. Asselin's work has been featured in the New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Time Magazine, Esquire, and New York Magazine among others. Asselin has collaborated with social organizations such as National Domestic Workers Alliance and Street to Home in New York City and The Institute For Facial Paralysis in Los Angeles. Asselin has completed public art commissions in Los Angeles, Washington D.C., and The City of Inglewood, California. She is the author of "Clubhouse Turn" (Angel City Press, 2020).
Jackilin Hah Bloom is an architectural designer and educator based in Los Angeles. She is the Graduate Thesis Coordinator and Design Faculty at SCI-Arc, and principal of JHB Studio, a creative practice grounded in art, culture and technology to produce architecture at multiple scales, dimensions and economies. She has participated at numerous institutions as an invited lecturer, juror, writer, and exhibitor, most notably the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale’s U.S. Pavilion. In 2018, her work on social housing was selected for The Housing Laboratory in Mexico, a collection of prototype rural homes, built and commissioned by Infonavit/CIDS. Jackilin has held visiting professorships at the schools of architecture at Princeton, Yale, Ohio State and Syracuse. She holds a Masters of Architecture degree from UCLA and a Bachelors of Architecture degree from USC.