After a military career,Mike Smith (b.1951 in Heidelberg) earned a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and a MFA in Photography from Yale University School of Art. He taught photography at East Tennessee State University from 1981 to 2017. His work is in the collections of the MoMA, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, SFMOMA, MOCA and other major museums. He is a Guggenheim Fellow and a United States Artist Fellow. Eric Paddock is Curator of Photography at Denver Art Museum. Originally from Boulder, Paddock holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Colorado College and a Master of Fine Arts degree in photography from Yale University . In addition to his role at the Colorado Historical Society, Paddock also has taught as a visiting professor of art history and photography for several leading Colorado institutions, including the University of Denver , the University of Colorado at Denver , Colorado College and Arapahoe Community College s study abroad arts program in Aix-en-Provence, France.