Candice Davis is a conceptual artist from San Antonio, Texas currently living and working in Minneapolis. She earned a BFA in Web and Multimedia Environments from MCAD in 2018. Her practice is focused on the use of digital media, installation, and performance as a means of witnessing for the experiences of marginalized people, with specific emphasis on her experience as a Black woman in the United States.

She has exhibited and performed collaboratively at locations including the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN), Franconia Sculpture Park (Shafer, MN), Minnesota African American Heritage Museum and Gallery (Minneapolis, MN), and Public Functionary (Minneapolis, MN). Davis has additionally presented solo exhibitions at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (Boulder, CO), Soo Visual Arts Center (Minneapolis, MN), and PAPA Projects (St. Paul, MN). Davis is a recipient of a WorkArt Kunstverein Fellowship, Metropolitan Regional Arts Council Next Step Grant, Northern Lights Artist on the Verge 11 Fellowship, Target Studio for Creative Collaboration Residency, and Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant. 

Tatsuhiko Togashi is a Tokyo based artist from Yamagata prefecture. He studied at Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam and Tokyo University of the Arts before starting the Lavender Opener Chair in 2020 with fellow artists Yoko Daihara and Yohei Watanabe. The artist-run space in Nishiogu, Arakawa Ward functions as a contemporary art gallery supporting emerging artists from Japan and abroad, and also hosts food service by Togashi's at a kitchen-facing counter in the back of the gallery. 

Lavender Opener Chair serves as a social respite for the Tokyo arts community. Smells from Togashi's kitchen welcome gallery visitors and seven modest stools host diners with traditional Yamagata meals. Togashi's cooking and hosting are the manifestation of his thoughtful attention to many sensory and social details presented temporally, and at the service of accessing a deeper appreciation of the visual arts.

Haynes Riley (b.1984 North Little Rock, Arkansas) is an artist, curator, designer, and the founder of Good Weather. His work is rooted in relationship building, research, and intellectual generosity; fostered by the generative dynamics of collaboration—through exhibition-making, publishing, and advocacy of artists. He is also founder of South Center Institute, a not-for-profit organization invested in experimentation and commissioning new work within an integrated supportive infrastructure in Little Rock and North Little Rock, Arkansas. South Center Institute works closely with artists during the ideation, research, production, and realization of ambitious new projects. 

Selected solo exhibitions include An attitude that cares at David Salkin Creative (Chicago), Grand Opening at Brittany (Vallejo, California), An attitude you can wear at TOPS (Memphis), and Always at The Hills Esthetic Center (Chicago). Riley has organized exhibitions through various platforms, including friendsh.jp, The Bedfellow’s Club, Girl/Boy Gallery (which he founded while participating in the Ox-Bow School of Art Fall Artist Residency), and independently.