Dr. Sigal Barkai is an educator, curator, artist and researcher of contemporary Israeli art. Since 2022 she is the director of the Arts Division in the Israeli Ministry of Education. Between 2011 and 2023 she was the National Supervisor of Art Education in the Israeli Ministry of Education. Sigal Barkai have published numerous papers and articles about Israeli visual arts from a feminist and sociopolitical point of view. She was the Collection Gallery curator and Assistant Director at the Petach-Tikva Museum of Art, Israel (2005-2009) and since then she has been an independent curator who curated exhibitions at a variety of art venues in Israel.
Dr. David Pariser has been a full Professor since 1995, in the Department of Art Education in the Faculty of Fine Arts at Concordia University, Montreal. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the National Art Education Association (USA). He was awarded the Gaitskell Lecture for his contributions to Canadian art education- (Lecture titled: Just Remember, Wherever you Are, There You Are, or how Postmodern Rhetoric Impoverishes Art Teaching.