Katie Baldwin, a 2021 Fulbright Scholar, created a series of narrative woodblock prints at the International Print Center in Taipei, Taiwan. She has traveled internationally as an artist-in-residence to Scotland, Iceland, Nicaragua, Poland, Cuba, Mexico and Japan. In Japan, she learned traditional Japanese woodblock printing (mokuhanga) from master carvers and printers at the Nagasawa and Kawaguchi residencies. She is a founding member of the book arts collective Shift-lab. Baldwin served as the Victor Hammer Fellow from 2011 – 2013 at Wells College and currently is an Associate Professor at the University of Alabama Huntsville, where she teaches book arts and printmaking.

Yoonmi Nam is an artist born in Seoul, South Korea,and received her MFA degree from the Rhode Island School of Design and BFA degree from Hong-Ik University in Seoul, Korea. She was awarded residencies at Mokuhanga Innovation Laboratory in Japan three times (2004, 2012, 2019) to study traditional Japanese woodblock printing techniques and is the recipient of the Keiko Kadota Award for Advancement of Mokuhanga. She is currently a 3-year studio resident at Studios Inc, in Kansas city. She has shown her work in over 20 solo exhibitions and 180 group exhibitions both nationally and internationally. Yoonmi is a professor of printmaking at the University of Kansas.

In 2013, Baldwin and Nam co-founded the wood+paper+box collaborative with Mariko Jesse, and they are foundation members of the international collective Mokuhanga Sisters.