Siting Wang is an Associate Curator at Saatchi Art. She has a B.F.A. with emphasis in Arts Administration from School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an M.S. in Leadership for Creative Enterprises from Northwestern University. Prior to joining Saatchi Art, Siting had extensive curatorial experiences in galleries and art museums in Chicago and Beijing, including Inside-Out Art Museum and The Research House for Asian Art. Her favorite contemporary artists include Eva Hesse, Hugo McCloud, Olafur Eliasson, and GaHee Park.

Nicole Garton is Global Fair Director at The Other Art Fair. She previously led marketing at Saatchi Art, where she was instrumental in the start-up’s transformation into the world’s leading online art gallery. Following Saatchi Art’s acquisition of The Other Art Fair, she played a key role in the Fair’s US market expansion. Prior to joining Saatchi Art, Nicole worked in non-profit fund development, public relations, and fine arts publishing. She began her career in private and non-profit exhibition spaces, including the Santa Monica Museum of Art and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions. She has over 15 years’ experience working with emerging artists.

Karen Comer Lowe is an Atlanta based, independent curator, educator, and art advisor whose work centers on expanding cultural narratives and championing historically marginalized artists. Named one of 10 people shaping the art world by Art Cube in 2026, she is a professor of Art History and Curatorial Studies at Spelman College, bringing curatorial practice and critical inquiry into the classroom while mentoring the next generation of artists and scholars. Her curatorial work has included collaborations with artists such as Amy Sherald, Rashid Johnson, Ming Smith, Radcliffe Bailey, and projects with MacArthur Fellows Amanda Williams (We Say What Black This Is) and Carrie Mae Weems. She previously held leadership and curatorial roles at the Spelman Museum of Fine Art, where she co-curated Silver Linings: Celebrating the Spelman Art Collection, a nationally traveling exhibition and recipient of the inaugural BridgeMaker Award. Lowe is also the founder of Red Clay Art Circle, a new initiative dedicated to deepening engagement with Black contemporary art and collecting. In 2025, she served as a keynote speaker at Howard University’s, Bison at Basel, engaging collectors and cultural leaders in conversations on stewardship and patronage. Whether in the gallery or the classroom, she remains committed to building the relationships, between artists, institutions, and audiences, that shape how culture is seen, valued, and remembered.

Melissa Messina is an Independent Curator and Executive Director of the Mildred Thompson Legacy Project. For 25 years, her exhibitions, site-responsive projects, and public programs have been presented in cultural institutions throughout the United States and abroad. She has recently guest curated solo exhibitions for Maya Lin and Duke Riley at the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art; Curtis Patterson at the Hilliard Art Museum, Lafayette, LA, and the Visual Arts Center of Richmond, VA; and Mildred Thompson at the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA, and the New Orleans Museum of Art, LA, and was the co-curator of the 2018 and 2020 Bermuda Biennials. In 2017, Messina co-curated “Magnetic Fields, Expanding American Abstraction, 1960s to Today,” an intergenerational exhibition celebrating abstraction by 21 Black female artists that toured from Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City to the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. She was formerly the Interim Executive Director and Senior Curator of the SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA; the National Program Director for ArtTable, NY; and a founding staff member and then guest curator at the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum. She most recently spearheaded the renovation of Mildred Thompson’s historic home in Atlanta, GA, for use as a multidisciplinary residency and program space. Her co-curated exhibition “Janet Fish: Place in Time,” which originated in Bermuda, is currently traveling throughout the U.S.

Daricia Mia DeMarr is an arts enthusiast, ideas fanatic, curator and visual art consultant. She is the director of Peg Alston Fine Arts Gallery and private collection, co-founder of Black Women in Visual Art, adjunct professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology, and an art consultant. She routinely seeks to create space for critical engagement through art and culture.