Nelson Mandela | Willie Nelson | Marilyn Monroe | Nelson | Marilyn Manson | Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson | Nelson, New Zealand | Ricky Nelson | Marilyn Horne | Nelson Rockefeller | Horatio Nelson | Lord Nelson | Nelson Riddle | Marilyn Manson (band) | Bill Nelson | Marc Nelson | Oliver Nelson | Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art | Nelson A. Miles | Nelson Eddy | Nelson Bunker Hunt | Craig T. Nelson | Byron Nelson | Ted Nelson | William Nelson Cromwell | Nelson Piquet | Nelson County, Kentucky | Tim Blake Nelson | Nelson's Column | Nelson, Lancashire |
Instructors have included former Poet Laureate of Connecticut, Marilyn Nelson, Whiting Writers' Award winner Tyehimba Jess, and American Book Award winner, Kimiko Hahn.
Between 1974 and 1980 the participants in Criss-Cross expanded to include filmmaker Fred Worden (included in the 2002 Whitney Biennial), University of Arkansas painter/printmaker Marilyn Nelson, and New York artists Gloria Klein, George Woodman and others.