Meghan O’Hara is a documentary filmmaker and Associate Professor of Documentary Filmmaking at California State University Monterey Bay. Her short film, THE FIELD TRIP, premiered at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, and was screened across the country before being selected as a Vimeo Staff Pick. Her feature documentary, IN COUNTRY: REENACTING THE VIETNAM WAR premiered at the 2014 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, and went on to screen at Hot Docs, CPH:DOX, DocNYC, among others. A 2014 Fellow of the Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program, her work has twice been featured in the New York Times Op-Docs series. O’Hara has received support for her films from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Sundance Institute Documentary Fund, HotDocs Forum, Points North Institute, Gotham Labs, DOK.Incubator, MassMOCA, and numerous arts foundations.

O’Hara holds an MFA from Stanford University and once appeared as a guest on Last Call with Carson Daly.

  

James Merle Thomas is an interdisciplinary scholar, curator, and creative arts executive who has worked for two decades at the intersection of museums, nonprofits, and higher education. He is currently Deputy Director at the New York-based Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, where he helps to shape the organization’s strategic partnerships and philanthropy.

His previous roles include serving as the Inaugural Executive Director of the Resnick Center for Herbert Bayer Studies at the Aspen Institute; Assistant Professor of Art History at Temple University; and Curator at the Penn-affiliated Slought. His curatorial and scholarly resesarch examines the art, visual culture, and technology of the 20th and 21st centuries, and is supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the U.S. Department of State, the National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian Institution. 

In addition to producing projects for the International Center of Photography, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the LUMA Foundation, Thomas served as Assistant Curator and Executive Editor of Publications for the 2nd Seville Biennial, the 7th Gwangju Biennale, and the 3rd Paris Triennial.

Thomas holds a doctorate in Art History from Stanford.