Jeff Cain is an artist and designer who works with sculpture, video, sound, photography, and performance. His studio, the Shed Research Institute, is an umbrella organization for independent research, public art projects, and site-specific design projects.  Cain received his MFA in studio art from Cal Arts. His works have been shown in at the Musee d'art Modern de Ville de Paris and Kyiv's Center for Contemporary Art, as well as locally at the Getty Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, UCI University Art Gallery, Track 16, and the 18th Street Arts Center.

Cain has work collaboratively on projects with performers since 1999 as a set, lighting, and media designer.  Collaborators have included osseus labyrint, Rosanna Gamson/World Wide Dance, Ptero Dance Theater, Ron Athey, Tim Miller, Karen Finley, and many others.  Cain was awarded a Lester Horton Award in with Ann Kaneko for best set design in 2002. 

He has worked as faculty at USC Roski School of Fine Arts, CalArts, Cal State Fullerton, Sci-Arc, and Whittier College.  He is the Exhibition Designer for UCR ARTSblock

Nikolay Maslov is a graduate of UC Riverside and the School of Cinematic Arts at USC. As a lighting designer at the Culver Center of the Arts, Nikolay has collaborated on performances by Daniel Bernard Roumain, Sheron Wray, nunu kong, Sara Juli, and others. A Flowering Tree is Nikolay's first collaboration with Riverside Lyric Opera.