Artist Bio: Dan Burkholder is known for looking over photography's horizon to discover dynamic new ways to capture and express the photographic image. In the early 1990s Dan wrote the groundbreaking Making Digital Negatives for Contact Printing, opening doors for legions of image-makers wishing to combine the precision of digital imaging with the warmth and charm of the handmade print.

Artist Statement: Every once in a while--and certainly not often enough--the gods of humanity, composition, and gesture all unite. I'm just glad I had a camera with me.

Artist Bio: Donna De Cesare is the recipient of the Maria Moors Cabot Award for Journalism enhancing Inter-American understanding, the CDS Dorothea Lange Prize, and the Mother Jones photography award, among many others. Her acclaimed book Unsettled/Desasosiego explores the spread of U.S. gangs in Central America. Her work appears in exhibitions and is included in major museum collections. She teaches visual journalism at the University of Texas at Austin.

Artist Statement: LA protest over the 1994 ballot initiative Prop 187 marked hardening attitudes towards immigrants and sought to deny them undocumented access to public healthcare or education.

Bio: Hillerbrand+Magsamen are interdisciplinary artists whose work playfully critiques consumerism and family life with an experimental approach and often includes their children, Madeleine and Emmett. Their work is exhibited internationally. Honors include grants from Sustainable Arts Foundation, Mid-America Arts Alliance, and residences with Santa Fe Art Institute and the Rauschenberg Residency in Captiva.

Artist Statement: The Devices project transforms everyday objects into new tools to help with daily challenges.

Bio: Originally from the UK, Sal Taylor Kydd earned her BA in Modern Languages from Manchester University and MFA in Photography from Maine Media College. Her photographs have been exhibited nationally and internationally, including Portland, Boston, Los Angeles, Mexico, and Spain. Kydd is also a writer and poet, and has self-published a number of books combining her poetry with her photographs.

Artist Statement: This piece is from my series Origins, which explores the fleeting nature of childhood and our relationship to the natural world.

Artist Bio: Delilah Montoya, a professor in the Katherine G. McGovern College of the Arts at UH, investigates cultural phenomena, addressing and confronting viewers' assumptions. Montoya's artwork has traveled with the ICP exhibition Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self and Arte Latino: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum. She received the Artadia Award and was honored with the Richard T. Castro Distinguished Visiting Professorship.

Artist Statement: "Jackie Chavez" is from Women Boxers: The New Warriors, an exhibition and book publication, shown in Los Angeles, Santa Fe, Dallas, and in NYC at MoMA PS1. The exhibition was reviewed in Art in America.

Artist Bio: Dan Nelken is a New York-based photographer who throughout his career has pursued long-term projects centered on individuals or groups that exist on the cusp of mainstream American culture. His work is in the collections of the International Center of Photography, New York; The Portland Art Museum, Portland; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY; and Beth Hatefutsoth Museum, Jerusalem, Israel.

Donor Statement: I have been collecting Dan's work for a number of years. It is my pleasure to donate this compelling work from his series Headstrong: The Women of Rural Uganda.