Lisa Cantini-Seguin has an AB from Vassar College in Art History and an MFA in Film and Television Production. She is an Emmy Award winning television and film producer and spent almost three decades as a producer for WQED Television and numerous Corporations, Public Relation Firms and Ad Agencies. In 2001 she began teaching Media and Television Production courses as an Adjunct Professor at Robert Morris University and Grove City College where she was eventually hired as a full time Associate Professor in the Communication Studies Department. She retired in 2015 and currently lives in Pittsburgh with her husband.
Andy Seguin is a grandson of Virgil Cantini, and now lives in New York City. He is a poet and artist, and the author of The Room in Which I Work (Omnidawn 2017) and Black Anecdote (Poetry Society of America 2011). As an editor and co-translator, he has helped complete the first French edition of Josef Albers's Poems and Drawings, forthcoming in 2021. He returns to Pittsburgh as often as he can.
Melissa E. Marinaro is the Director of the Italian American Program at the Senator John Heinz History Center. She has a B.F.A. in Photography from Columbia College Chicago and a M.A. in Art History from Savannah College of Art and Design. Marinaro has worked in the museum field since 2008 and specializes in immigration history, visual and material culture, and 20th century American History. She is the author of Highlights of the Italian American Collection: Western Pennsylvania Stories and a regular contributor to Western Pennsylvania History Magazine. The Heinz History Center is home to Virgil Cantini's professional archive.
Brittany Reilly is the Executive Director of the Irving and Aaronel deRoy Gruber Foundation, where she manages and curates a collection of works by the late female sculptor, deRoy Gruber. She sits on the Board of Directors of Preservation Pittsburgh and Chairs the organization's Modern Committee, advocating for modernist architecture and public art in the region, especially where they overlap, and conducting tours of both. Consultant to a range of contemporary and recently historic art installations, collections, and projects, she worked on the Carnegie International 57th Edition (2018), and has been directly involved in the collaborative process of relocating Virgil Cantini's 1964 large-scale mosaics since they were first threatened in 2017. Brittany's resulting research and writing on Virgil Cantini has been focused on the artist's works in predominantly public settings throughout Pittsburgh.