Bruce Tomb is an interdisciplinary artist who has had work exhibited at museums such as the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, the M.H. deYoung Museum, The Wexner Center for the Arts, The Whitney, The Estuary Biennial in Nantes, France, and is part of the permanent collection of SFMOMA.

Isamu Noguchi (1904–1988) was one of the twentieth century’s most important and critically acclaimed sculptors. Noguchi’s first retrospective in the United States was in 1968, at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. Noguchi received the Edward MacDowell Medal for Outstanding Lifetime Contribution to the Arts in 1982, the Kyoto Prize in Arts in 1986, the National Medal of Arts in 1987, and the Order of the Sacred Treasure from the Japanese government in 1988. He died in New York City in 1988.

Billie Tsien is an architect whose work alongside her partner Tod Williams has earned her a National Medal of Arts, alongside various other awards. She is the president of the Architectural League of New York.