Dreaming California

Susan Ressler is a renowned artist, author, and educator who has been making social documentary photographs for nearly fifty years. Her work is in the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Library and Archives Canada, and many other important collections. Ressler developed one of the first online courses and web archives about women artists at Purdue University, where she was Head of the Photography Area and taught photographic practice, theory, and history in the Department of Visual and Performing Arts from 1981 to 2004. She is currently Professor Emerita, Purdue University.

Larry Lytle is an award-winning artist, author, curator and lecturer in art at California State University Channel Islands. Lytle has been a contributing writer for Black & White magazine for the past 10 years.

Mark Rice is an award-winning author and professor of American Studies at St. John Fisher University near Rochester, New York.