Liz Hernández creates art rooted in storytelling, using painting, sculpture, and textiles to blur the boundary between the real and the imagined. Writing anchors her practice; each series begins with a short story that guides the creation of handcrafted objects and images. Her work engages both personal and collective narratives, often centered on memory, womanhood, and transformation. Driven by material experimentation, she studies ancestral techniques such as embroidery and repujado, reinterpreting these Mexican craft traditions to shape a visual language of her own. She has exhibited in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, and Mexico City. Her work is held in the permanent collections of SFMOMA, the de Young Museum, and KADIST.

Isabel Rojas-Williams is an art historian and curator. From 2011-2016, she served as the Executive Director of the Mural Conservancy Los Angeles. Rojas-Williams is a native of Chile and a resident of Los Angeles since 1973 when she became an immediate and passionate fan of the city’s mural movement. Her mural research and scholarship around artist David Alfaro Siqueiros led to a Mayoral Advisory Committee role for the Siqueiros Mural and Interpretive Center (2012) and the exhibition Siqueiros: A Muralist in Exile at the Museum of Latin American Art (2011). Her activism and mural advocacy work helped lift the 2002 mural moratorium in Los Angeles and create a new mural ordinance signed by LA Mayor Eric Garcetti in 2013.