Hilary Tait Norod is an independent art consultant and curator in the Boston area who most recently served as director of Galatea Fine Art, a large, contemporary gallery in the city’s SoWa arts district. She earned her MFA in Visual Arts from Lesley University, where she received the Presidential Award and Scholarship. She was graduated from Skidmore College with a BS in Studio Art in 2009, where she was awarded the Jesse Soloman Award for Most Outstanding Painting, and received honors at the Thesis Exhibition. She has always been an active participant in the local arts community, and is a strong advocate for both the development of artists’ careers and growth of the arts network. hilarytaitnorod.com

Los Angeles-based ONCH is the creative force behind the ONCH brand, designing fun, wearable art for people everywhere. His clients include Kim Kardashian, Kate Moss, and Nicki Minaj, who famously rocked ONCH’s rainbow swirl cone necklace when accepting Best Rapper of the Year at the MTV Video Music Awards, and wore his pink fried chicken wing necklace at the I Heart Radio musical festival. He created the brand’s first collection at Forever 21—the Hello Kitty Forever jewelry collection—and Hasbro enlisted him to bring some of its most beloved brands—Mr. Potato Head and My Little Pony—to life. His "Meat-Lace” necklace was featured in the New York Post, Los Angeles Times, Huffington Post, In Touch, and Ripley’s Believe It or Not, and he has collaborated with Dreamworks, Sanrio, Pokemon, Delias and the Ford Motor Company. onch.us

Kata Hull draws and paints in oils and mixed media, and her work hangs in corporate and private collections in the U.S. and abroad. She teaches at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts, Boston, and at Tufts University. She has shown her work in juried exhibitions at galleries, museums, and associations across New England, and has led drawing and collage workshops and retreats for individuals and organizations. She works out of her studio at 11 Miler Street in Somerville, MA.