About Jean Lin:
Jean Lin is a New York City-based gallerist, founder of Colony and author of What We Keep, published in 2024. Trained as a fashion designer, she has professional experience as a fashion designer, interior designer, editor, writer, trend forecaster, educator and curator. Jean has served as part time faculty at her alma mater, Parsons School of Design, and a guest lecturer and critic at RISD, Pratt Institute, Mass College of Art and Design, and Tama Art University in Tokyo.
About Madeleine Parsons:
Madeleine Parsons is the Art Director at Colony, where she co-directs the ongoing Colony Residency. Outside of her work at Colony, she writes Design in Verse, a newsletter on the dialogue between literature and design, and teaches within the School of Constructed Environments BFA Product Design at Parsons, The New School. She is currently an MFA candidate in Hunter College’s CNF writing program, where she is working on a book about the built environment