Speakers

Stephanie Rowley was appointed Provost, Dean, and Vice President for Academic Affairs of Teachers College on July 1, 2019. Prior to joining Teachers College, Dr. Rowley served in several key leadership positions at the University of Michigan, including Associate Chair and Interim Chair of the Psychology Department, Chair of the Combined Program of Education and Psychology, and Associate Vice President for Research for Social Science, Arts, and Humanities. In these roles, she was successful in advancing research and teaching support for faculty, advancing interdisciplinary collaboration, and strengthening graduate student life and development.

Rowley earned her B.A. (1992) from the University of Michigan, and her Ph.D. (1997) in Developmental Psychology from the University of Virginia. She began her career as a faculty member at the University of North Carolina in 1997, and in 2000 she joined the University of Michigan’s Department of Psychology. Nationally, she currently serves on the Governing Council for the Society for Research and Child Development and the Ethics Committee of the American Education Research Association. She has won numerous awards for her research, teaching, service, and mentorship. Among her most valued awards have been those received for her outstanding mentoring of students.

In her research, Dr. Rowley focuses on the influence of race- and gender-related attitudes and beliefs on the development of children’s academic self-concept with a strong emphasis on parents' roles in the development of these attitudes. Her most recent project is an NSF-funded longitudinal study of African American parents’ beliefs about Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) and the relation of those beliefs to the socialization of their middle school youth. Dr. Rowley also served as one of six principal investigators at Michigan’s Center for the Study of Black Youth in Context, a research center dedicated to the study of Black youth, training of doctoral and post-doctoral students and community outreach.

David Bogen is the Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). He has previously served as the Vice President Academic and Provost at Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver, Canada, Associate Provost for Academic Affairs at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence and as the Executive Director of the Institute for Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies at Emerson College in Boston. A social theorist and philosopher of language by training, Bogen has broad experience in the development of interdisciplinary programs based on diverse pedagogical models, including project-, studio- and community-based approaches to teaching and learning. He was also instrumental in the development of major research initiatives and partnerships at his former institutions involving health design, community investment, art/science collaborations, digital media and materials analysis.

José joined MICA in the summer of 2020 as the founding director of the Center for Teaching Innovation and Exchange (C/TIE). Through this role, he supports faculty by providing professional development and resources that make teaching and learning more accessible, collaborative, and responsive to the challenges of higher education in art & design. He brings to MICA ten years of experience as an academic director with a focus on community-engaged work and postcolonial pedagogies at the University of Utah’s School of Architecture. There he was an Assistant Professor and the Director of DesignBuildBLUFF (DBB), where he trained graduate students in partnership with rural and native communities in the Utah Four Corners to design and construct an architectural project annually. His publications offer critique and alternatives to contemporary design education and he is currently facilitating the establishment of a sweat equity housing enterprise in the Navajo Nation. He received his BA in English with minor studies in Art and Philosophy from Southern Methodist University and his Masters in Architecture from the University of Texas at Austin.

Rabeya Jalil is a visual artist and art educator based in Lahore, Pakistan. She received her undergraduate degree from the National College of Arts (2015), Lahore and a Masters in Education from Columbia University, Teachers College, New York, on a Fulbright Scholarship (2013). Jalil’s creative practice includes painting, curriculum development, teacher-education and writing. She is a founding member and co-editor for the Journal of Art Education Pakistan (JAEP), the first peer-reviewed publication about art education in Pakistan and is co-director of Conversations, an online talk show about teaching projects in art and design education. She also volunteers as the Online Digital Curriculum Coordinator for CSTAE, Caucus of Social Theory in Art Education, NAEA, National Art Education Association, United States. Jalil has presented at art education conferences in Lahore, Islamabad, Boston, New York, Fort Worth (Texas), San Diego, Chicago, Seattle and Istanbul and has exhibited her work in Islamabad, Lahore, Karachi, UAE, USA, UK, Portugal, Turkey and India. She is Associate Professor in the Department of Fine Art at the National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan.

Dina Lutfi is an artist, graphic designer, and is currently an Assistant Professor of Graphic Design and Multimedia at the Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University in Saudi Arabia. Lutfi holds a Bachelor of Science in Visual Communication from the American University of Sharjah in the UAE, a Master of Arts in Art Education from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, and a Doctor of Education in Art and Art Education from Teachers College, Columbia University. As a practicing artist and designer, Lutfi engages in dialogues about form, function, and communication. As an educator, her academic focus encompasses art and design history in addition to contemporary perspectives. Lutfi also teaches studio based classes centered on visual exploration and open dialogue in order to enrich artistic and design processes. Lutfi’s current published research focuses on the development of educational pedagogies, and shedding light on Arab and African art and design.

IM is currently teaching in the Department of Painting at the College of Art, Sungshin University in Seoul, South Korea. IM took on a role as a dean of the department for 5 years in the past. IM completed his doctorate in Art and Art Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. The dissertation title is ‘the generative impact of online critiques on individual art practice’. IM also has an M.F.A. from the Department of Painting and Printmaking at Yale University. IM has published 5 single-authored books, and held over 20 solo exhibitions and numerous group exhibitions internationally. IM garnered global recognition for his photographs that display his distinctive picturesque sensitivity. IM’s representative works are cityscape and people series. In addition, he makes art in diverse media. www.sangbinim.com

Rainer Wenrich (*1964); Ph. D. He studied Art History, Philosophy and German Literature at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Painting/Art Education at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich, achieved a Ph. D. on the topic of Art and Fashion in the 20th century. He is a Professor and Chair for Art Education and Art Didactics at the Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt.

He lectured as a Professor for Art Education at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and lectured at Teachers College, Columbia University, New York. He is the author of numerous articles and books in the field of art education and fashion studies.

Eric Fan Feng is a Ph.D. in art history, Associate Professor of art and deputy chair of Department of painting in Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University in Beijing. Dr. Feng was trained as a visual artist, who has exhibited work across China, and in the U.S. and Japan. Dr. Feng’s work is in several public collections and he has produced a number of public art commissions around China. In 2015, he was awarded the “East Asia Fellowship” by ARIAH (The Association of Research Institutes in Art History). He was a visiting fellow at Archive of American Art, Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C. and Visiting scholar at American Academy at Rome in 2017. In 2020, he taught 2 on-line courses at University at Buffalo, SUNY, one art history, one studio painting.

Aimee is currently pursuing an Ed.D.DCT in Art Education and holds an Ed.M. from Teachers College. She has a M.F.A. from SUNY New Paltz and a B.A. from Baldwin Wallace University. Aimee’s research interest involves examining the intersection of embodied learning and ceramics, and how the embodied practices of ceramics can be explored in higher education. Aimee is also interested in how the educational setting can influence art making practices and subsequent artworks. As an active artist and educator, she brings both her movement and artist practices to the classroom, where she challenges students to both experiment with the material and consider the role of the body as a tool. Aimee’s artistic individual works and installations are held in private collections and exhibited in galleries nationwide.

Assistant Professor, Iowa State University

www.ralu.ca 

Instagram @raluca_iancu

Originally from Romania, Raluca Iancu earned her MFA in Studio Art, Printmaking, from The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and her BFA in Printmaking from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Canada. Her work explores disaster, memory and vulnerability through different media, ranging from printmaking and performance to edible art and printed objects. She has exhibited internationally, at venues including the Domek Miedziorytnika Gallery & Museum, Wroclaw, Poland; the National Museum Robevci, Ohrid, Macedonia; the Art Museum of Cluj-Napoca, Romania; and the International Print Center New York, NY. Raluca Iancu has been awarded art residencies and workshops in Canada, the United States, Poland, Romania, and Spain. Raluca Iancu is currently an Assistant Professor in Art and Visual Culture, Printmaking, at Iowa State University. She was awarded a Spring 2020 Teaching Innovation Award from Iowa State for her transition to virtual instruction.

Katharina Kugler teaches art pedagogy & didactics with a focus on textiles and handicraft at the University College of Teacher Education Vienna. She has studied Art Education in Textile Design and Art & Communication at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna as well as Slavonic Studies in Vienna and Saint Petersburg. For several years, she taught Russian as a foreign language and Textile Design at a secondary school. Her main fields of interest include Educational Neuroscience and an Education for Sustainable Development within art pedagogy. With her textile installations, audio-visual compositions and social interventions she has participated in a number of international exhibitions.

Tara Geer makes and teaches drawing. Her work is in various museums including the Metropolitan, The Morgan, The Parrish, The Canadian Museum and numerous private collections. She’s had solo shows in LA and in NY, and exhibited at Jason McCoy, Tibor de Nagy, The National Arts Club, and the Four Seasons among many others. There are 2 books about her work; Carrying Silence: The Drawings of Tara Geer; and New York Studio Conversations. She is featured in 3 documentaries: Before and After Dinner, Generosity of Eye, and Sanctuary. She has been teaching for over 3 decades --now at Teachers College. She has a BA and MFA from Columbia University where she graduated Magna Cum Laude, and Phi Beta Kappa. She has received the Loius Sudler Prize, the Joan Sovern prize, residencies at Denniston Hill and MacDowell, and funding from the National Science Foundation for research. She was awarded BlogHer Voice of the Year for her leadership of the grassroots group, Action Potluck, and the immigrant protection collaboration, Sanctuary Neighborhoods.

Linnea Poole is an Art Practitioner; Womanist; and Community Educator. She has taught theater performance, visual arts, and dance movement in various schools around the DC, Maryland, and VA corridor.  Currently, Linnea is an Adjunct Professor for the First Year Experience (FYE) and Community Arts (MFACA) departments at MICA. Linnea also teaches at a local middle school in Baltimore City where her students study how to create art activism and stand as ambassadors for their community. Linnea holds a Bachelor of Science in Urban Arts Theater from Coppin State University and a Master of Fine Art in Community Art from the Maryland Institute College of Art.  

Susan Connolly is an academic and artist based between Ireland and the UK. She is a graduate of Limerick School of Art and Design, and she holds an MFA from the University of Ulster, a first class honours MA from ACW at the National College of Art and Design (NCAD), Dublin and her PhD completed in 2018 is from Ulster University having been awarded the VC Scholarship.

Connolly has extensive experience of teaching art at university level and has previously held lecturing positions at iadt, Dublin; Limerick School of Art and Design; Ulster University, Belfast; and is currently the programme leader on the visual art course at Waterford Institute of Technology, Waterford, Ireland. 

Recent exhibitions include shows in Berlin, Belfast, Dublin, Glasgow and London and her work is represented in many private and public collections.

Websites:

www.susanconnolly.com

https://www.wit.ie/courses/bahons_in_visual_art 

Jasmin Schaitl is a visual artist, performer, associated artist and coach at the Angewandte Performance Laboratory at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, where she also studied art education (MA 2021). Since 2020, she is an artistic researcher at the DEMEDARTS project (Project A-609 funded by Austrian Science Fund). Since 2019, she is a PhD candidate at The Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wroclaw (PL). Schaitl received several awards, e.g. BKA START scholarship for performing arts, the BiauLAUT Award for interdisciplinary art of KOÏNZI-Dance e.V. Hamburg. Her works were presented in numerous european countries, the UK, Israel, the US, Mexiko, Brazil and South Korea. Performance, sculpture, video and photography are media through which Schaitl is looking at the juxtaposition of presence and absence and questions what is, and what remains present or absent. Her Duo-Monography “Entering Continuities” was published together with Matej Frank by ATHENA-Verlag in 2019. 

Websites:

www.demedarts.com

www.jasminschaitl.com 

Sam Bennett is a New York-based ethnographer, maker, and designer with expertise in the fields of space and objects.  She believes in slow research that minimally impacts our planet and advocates for human well-being.  You can find her investigating people’s relationships to objects in the domestic space, making with mycelium and discarded materials, repairing meaningful artifacts, and running Clever/Slice, a global space to share in-progress creative work.  Past collaborators include Healthy Materials Lab, Hyloh, Perkins+Will, SITU, and Martha Stewart Living. She received an MFA in Interior Design from Parsons School of Design, and a BFA in Textile Design and Art History from the University of Kansas.  Sam also teaches at Parsons School of Design, Pratt Institute, and New Jersey Institute of Technology in the Interior Design and Industrial Design departments. 

samiamido.com 

sambennett@newschool.edu 

Ari Elefterin is a New York-based transdisciplinary designer, somatic researcher, and educator focused on the experimental process and the human body. Their multidisciplinary exploration of communication extends from global commercial art directing at Nike to contemporary dance and water advocacy. Through a prioritization of the bodily experience, their work seeks to re-define holistic human health in the constructed environment. They are a graduate of the first cohort of the MFA Industrial Design program at Parsons the New School for Design, and also hold a BFA in Graphic Design from Boston University. Elefterin runs their own multi-disciplinary design and research studio while teaching in the School of Constructed Environments in the BFA Product Design and the MFA Interior Design programs at Parsons. 

Ari-elefterin.com

ari.elefterin@newschool.edu 

Siân Evans (she/her) is the Information Literacy & Instructional Design Librarian at Maryland Institute College of Art and the co-founder of Art+Feminism, a campaign to create meaningful changes to the body of knowledge available about feminism and the arts on Wikipedia. Her writing can be found in journals such as Art Documentation and The Serials Librarian, as well as edited anthologies from GenderFail Press, Library Juice Press and MIT Press. Her work with Art+Feminism has been covered by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, ARTnews, and more. She was named a Leading Global Thinker by Foreign Policy magazine and a Badass Woman by Buzzfeed.

Personal and/or institutional website: https://sianevansmls.com/  

Mackenzie Salisbury (she/her) is currently the Information Literacy Librarian at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), where she coordinates the Information Literacy program including instruction and outreach for the John M. Flaxman Library + Special Collections. Mackenzie has published articles in Art Documentation, as well as Art Libraries Journal, and as well as The First-Year Experience Cookbook, and upcoming online publication Speculative Library Futures: Post Pandemic Libraries. She is interested in disrupting traditional models of instruction through creative practice, and actively works to re-imagine what it means to be a librarian through collaboration and outreach with the art community. 

Personal and/or institutional website: www.saic.edu/library  

My work and experiences blend science, art, and technology with design-based thinking approaches to curricular activities that enhance the authenticity of instructional experiences with children and adults. I have worked in experiences with Peace Corps (Nepal), USAID (Nepal), Peace Corps Response (Philippines), Brooklyn Academy of Music, LEGO, Bank Street School for Children, Teachers College, Columbia University, and the Mamaroneck School District. I look to create meaningful connections, building on experiences between people and their ideas to develop valued learning opportunities. As an Elementary Art and Technologies teacher with the Mamaroneck School District in the online digital instruction era, I enjoy creating and fostering authentic and meaningful experiences for students in the visual arts.

Website

Cjreillyiii.com 

Stephanie Barber is a writer and artist who has created a poetic, conceptual and philosophical body of work in a variety of media. Her films and videos are literary/cinematic hybrids that dissolve boundaries between narrative, essay and dialectic work. They consider the basic philosophical questions of human existence (its morbidity, profundity and banality) with play and humor. Barber’s films and videos have screened nationally and internationally in solo and group shows at MOMA, NY; The Tate Modern, London; The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; The Paris Cinematheque and other galleries, museums and festivals. Her videos are distributed by Video Data Bank and her films can be found at Canyon Cinema. Her books Night Moves and these here separated... were published by Publishing Genius Press in 2013 and 2010 respectively. Her collection of haiku Status Update Vol.1 was published by Ctrl+P in 2019.

Hwa Young Caruso was born and educated in Seoul, Korea. She received a doctorate from TC Columbia University, completed a MFA at the University of Connecticut and a BFA at Ewha Womans University in Seoul. Dr. Caruso is a Full Professor of Art at Molloy College NY. She teaches Painting, Drawing, 2D Design, Printmaking, Senior Thesis Project, Visual Arts Education, Western Art history, Women and Art, and East Asian Art History. Dr. Caruso presented at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Princeton, Vassar, NYU and Dartmouth. She published chapters in textbook “Art and Human Values” by Cognella, and articles in The Journal of Aesthetic Education, the University of Illinois, and art reviews in International Journal of Multicultural Education as Arts Review Editor. She had exhibitions at SOHO20 Gallery, Phoenix Gallery, Ceres Gallery, Columbia University, University of Connecticut, Chrysler Museum, Springfield Museum, Berkshire Museum, Clemson University and in Japan, Korea, Italy, Poland and Columbia.

Samuel Hoi is the president of Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) and an advocate for creative professionals as drivers in social, economic, and cultural advancement. He has ushered in MICA’s creative entrepreneurship efforts, mission and vision re-articulation, and DEIG (diversity, equity, inclusion, and globalization) mandate. Formerly as president of Otis College of Art and Design, he shepherded the Creative Action curriculum that places art and design education in real life and community context and launched the annual Otis Report on the Creative Economy of the Los Angeles Region. Born and raised in Hong Kong, Hoi received his JD from Columbia Law School and his AAS degree in Illustration from Parsons School of Design. Hoi is a recipient of honorary doctorate degrees from the Corcoran and Otis; French decoration as an Officer of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques; and the Ford Foundation’s Art of Change Fellowship that recognizes U.S. artists and cultural leaders at the forefront of social change.

Dr. Paul Sproll (b. Bath, England) is a Professor, Graduate Program Director, and Head of the Rhode Island School of Design’s Department of Teaching + Learning in Art + Design. Professor Sproll’s training as an artist and educator began at the Bath Academy of Art, Corsham, followed by two decades of high school art teaching in England and Wales. He completed a B.A. (Art & Design History) from the Open University. And a Fulbright exchange year in the U.S. led to the decision to leave the classroom in the U.K. to pursue graduate studies and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Art Education from The Ohio State University. Dr. Sproll's teaching centers on inquiry-based curriculum and pedagogies, and his engaged practice involves work at the intersection of formal and informal education. He is the founding director of Project Open Door – a college access program for creative teens attending under-resourced urban public high schools.

Iman Djouini (b. Algiers, Algeria) is an artist and educator who works primarily in Print Media, and Public Art. She received a Master of Fine Arts in Printmaking from Tulane University, Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting and Art History from The Maryland Institute College of Art. Her research-based practice explores gender and postcolonial spatial relations and the intersections of identity, culture, economy, and politics. Recent works examine how language and design can be tools, used to shape perception in contested cultural and political histories. Valuing the importance of teaching, Djouini lectures and leads courses that nurture a critical dialogue with the next generation of artists, designers and thinkers.

College of Creative Studies, Department of Art

University of California, Santa Barbara

ImanDjouini.com 

Christopher Kaczmarek is a New York based artist whose work spans both experimental and traditional practices, including sculpture, site specific installations, performance, video, hand built circuits and solar-powered objects. His work is often interactive and designed to guide the viewer towards a deeper contemplation about the inhabited environment.  Recent interests have been concerned with the act of walking as a praxis for artistic production, and the shapes in which collective and collaborative environments can be formed to become spaces where imagination and creativity are used in the service of hopeful outcomes. He has received an MFA in Visual Art and an MA in Modern and Contemporary Art History, Theory and Criticism from Purchase College, State University of New York, and is currently an Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Art, and Program Coordinator of the Visual Arts Program, at Montclair State University, New Jersey USA.

www.chriskaczmarek.com

https://www.montclair.edu/profilepages/view_profile.php?username=kaczmarekc 

Rébecca Bourgault is a visual artist, educator, scholar, and community artist.  She is currently Assistant Professor and Chair of the Art Education department at Boston University, College of Fine Arts. Degrees include an Ed.D in Art & Art Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, MFA from the University of Calgary, AB, and BFA from Concordia University, Montréal, QC. Bourgault taught studio arts at the Alberta College of Art & Design and University of Calgary, and art education at CUNY Brooklyn College, Teachers College, NYC, and Montserrat College of Art in Massachusetts. Her artistic work has been exhibited in Canada and the US, and recent publications can be found in the Journal of Education & the Arts, the Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, the International Encyclopedia of Art and Design, and Art as an Agent of Social Change (Mreiwed, Carter & Mitchell, Eds). Her research interests include community arts pedagogies, socially-engaged and relational art practices, and arts-based research.

https://www.bu.edu/cfa/profile/bourgault/

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rebecca-Bourgault-2 

Jessica Rohl is a narrative artist who focuses on the concept of time. Through abstract photography her current work makes the connection between music and memory. She is originally from Buffalo, NY, which is where she is now, but had previously moved to Baltimore to attend the Maryland Institute College of Art for their Photographic and Electronic Media Program. She finished her undergraduate career at the State University College at Buffalo with a degree in Fine Arts. She has been exhibited in galleries such as the Albright-Knox, and the 1045 Gallery. She has also been published in books such as, Photographer’s Form: Best of College & High School of 2017 and A Conversation About Conservation.

Megan Irwin is a graphic designer, illustrator, and creative director originally from St. Louis, Missouri. She has worked in print and publication design, with a focus on events for cultural institutions and non-profit organizations. Her clients include UNICEF, American Museum of Natural History, San Francisco Ballet, The Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and the St. Louis Public Library. She has designed retail product lines for Paperless Post, Target, and Anthropologie. Megan received her BFA in Visual Communications from Truman State University. She has taught as an adjunct lecturer at Maryville University and Washington University in St. Louis. Megan is in her first year of the Graphic Design MFA program at MICA.

Graeme Sullivan has been messing with art for quite a while. Depending on the role, be it teacher, researcher, artwriter, artist, or administrator, he uses creativity, data, persuasion and streetsmarts to pursue personal goals for public ends. To ‘excite others about art’ is a useful mission statement that shapes the positions Graeme has served in over the years. He retired in 2018 as Director of the School of Visual Arts, Pennsylvania State University, a position he held from 2010. Prior to that he served as Professor of Art Education at Teachers College, Columbia University (1998-2010), which included a period as Chair of the Department of Arts and Humanities. Graeme trained as a high school art teacher in Sydney, Australia, in the 1970s. He completed his graduate degrees as The Ohio State University in the 1980s. Graeme currently lives in Sydney with his life partner, Mary.

Veronica Thomas is the Executive Director of Digital Learning in the Digital Futures Institute at Teachers College, Columbia University. She received a Master’s in Instructional Technology from Teachers College and Bachelor’s in Media Studies from Fordham University, College at Lincoln Center. Prior to working at Teachers College, Veronica was the Director of Instructional Design in the Office of Digital Learning at Teachers. Her first foray into online learning was as Director of Digital Learning at Columbia Business School Executive Education. She has also worked as a teacher in the corporate and not-for-profit sector teaching workshops and courses in computer application skills. She has a deep understanding of the science, practice, and art of instructional design, teaching, and learning and is motivated and energized by bringing out the best in learners, educators, and colleagues. She describes herself as a persistent visionary who is always asking, “how can we do this better?”

Colette Veasey-Cullors is founding Associate Vice President of the Center for Organizing, Representation and Empowerment at Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore. In 2021, she was appointed to the board of trustees at Aperture Foundation, NYC and in 2012, she was awarded the Maryland Institute College of Art, Board of Trustee Excellence in Teaching Award. Colette’s photographic work investigates themes pertaining to socioeconomics, race, class, education, and identity, with a particular focus on social and creative engagement with historically underinvested and underrepresented communities. Colette’s photography is represented in the Photographic History Collection of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History, Washington, DC, and has been widely exhibited. Her work is also included in the publications MFON: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora (2017). Colette received her MFA in photography from Maryland Institute College of Art in 1996, and her BFA in photography from the University of Houston in 1992.

Personal Website: 

https://www.coletteveasey-cullors.com/

MICA Website: 

https://www.mica.edu/ 

Lisa Hochtritt is Faculty and Program Director, Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) at Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. Dr. Hochtritt obtained a Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) degree in Art and Art Education from Teachers College Columbia University and a Master of Arts (M.A.) degree in Creativity and Creative Arts Education from San Francisco State University. She is co-editor of two Routledge anthologies: Makers, Crafters, Educators: Working for Cultural Changewith Elizabeth Garber and Manisha Sharma (2019) and Art and Social Justice Education: Culture as Commons (2012) with Therese Quinn and John Ploof. Hochtritt has received awards for teaching and service including the National Art Education Association National Higher Education Art Educator Award in 2021. She is an avid thrift shopper and her sometimes performative alter ego, Dr. June Cleavage, got her start as a college radio disc jockey in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.

Website: 

https://www.mica.edu/art-articles/details/lisa-hochtritt-edd-director-of-micas-mat-program/ 

Professor Pamela Harris Lawton is the Florence Gaskins Harper Endowed Chair in Art Education at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Her scholarly research revolves around visual narrative and intergenerational arts learning in BIPOC communities.  Lawton’s artwork is grounded in social practice; seeking to illuminate contemporary issues, cultural traditions, and the stories of people affected by them. She holds a BA degree in Studio Art and Sociology; an MFA in Printmaking; and an EdDCTA in Art Education. Honors include: Fulbright Distinguished Chair, University of Edinburgh, Scotland; Associate Artist, Tate Exchange in London, and artist residencies in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, and Montpelier Cultural Arts Center, MD.  Publications include a co-authored book, Community-based Art Education Across the Lifespan: Finding Common Ground, numerous journal articles and book chapters. Lawton’s artworks are in university collections, the Tate Britain Library; Frederick Douglass Museum and Cultural Center, and the Eugene E. Myers Charitable Unitrust.

Websites:

https://www.mica.edu/research/center-for-art-education/pamela-lawton-mfa-edd/

https://pamelaspress.wixsite.com/artstories 

Dr. Søren Obed Madsen is an associate professor in organization and management at the University of South-Eastern Norway School of Business. He serves as an external associate at Copenhagen Business School and Technical University of Denmark. Prior to joining academia, he worked as a management consultant with implementation as his area of expertise. His research deals quite broadly with issues of management, organizations and society as they relate to organizational processes. He is typically interested in questions related to implementation, change and management tools by drawing on a perspective from another theoretical field.

Richard Jochum, Associate Professor of Art and Art Education, received his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Vienna (Austria) and an MFA in Sculpture and Media Art from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna (Austria). He has served as a Visiting Professor at the University of Applied Sciences in Dornbirn (Austria), as a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the American University in Cairo (Egypt) and as a Visiting Scholar and Adjunct Assistant Professor at Teachers College developing curricula and teaching courses in social media technology, intermedia, visual culture and new media art. His artwork is based in a variety of media, including video, photography and installation, and has been exhibited internationally in more than 200 group and solo exhibitions. He is represented by Gallery Lindner (Austria) and Gallery Bundo (South-Korea), and is a studio member of the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts in New York City. One of his latest large-scale art installations has been a 30,000 square feet collaborative video mapping project onto the Manhattan Bridge in Brooklyn, New York. Recent solo exhibitions include Art Cluster Gallery (Brooklyn, 2018), Kiesler Foundation (Austria, 2018), Gallery Bundo (South Korea, 2018), Macy Gallery (New York, 2018). Recent public art projects include commissions at the art park Hollufgaard (Denmark, 2017) and Land Art Biennial Mongolia (Murum Sum, 2018). Dr. Jochum’s scholarly interests include artistic research practices and higher education pedagogy, as well as new media and media art education. He coordinates the Creative Technologies Advanced Certificate as part of the Art and Art Education Program. More information can be found at http://richardjochum.net.

Judith Burton is Macy Professor of Education and Director Emerita of Art and Art Education at Columbia University Teachers College; she received her Ed.D. from Harvard University in 1980.  She researches the artistic-aesthetic development of children, adolescents, and young adults, and the implications this has for teaching and learning and the culture in general.  In 1995 she co-founded the Center for Research in Arts Education and in 1996 founded the Heritage School, a comprehensive high school featuring the arts. She received the Manuel Barkan Award for excellence in research writing, the Lowenfeld and Eisner Awards for lifetime achievement in art education and the Ziegfeld Award for services to international art education. She is a member of the Royal Society of Arts, UK; a distinguished professor of The Central Academy of Fine Arts, China, and a trustee of the Maryland Institute College of Art.

Laura Ayam was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and specialized in Educational Psychology before moving to New York in 2005. Upon relocating she attended The Art Students League as a full-time studio artist. In 2011 Laura graduated from Teachers College, Columbia University with a MA in Art and Art Education. Laura has taught in New York public and private schools across the five boroughs through an outreach program from the New York Historical Society and has also led in-museum programs for families. In 2012 Laura joined Community Roots Charter School as a Middle School founding staff member, and has been teaching Art there for the past 9 years. In 2019 Laura has taken on the role of Presentation of Learning Coordinator at her site, supporting teachers across grades and disciplines as they envision meaningful and authentic ways for students to share their learning with a particular audience or the community at large. Laura is interested in collaborating with educators in the development of curriculum that addresses social justice issues, facilitating learning in, with and through the arts across disciplines and centering on relevant, genuine and joyful learning for all.

Dr. Sheyda Ardalan is an art teacher, beginner teacher mentor, cooperating teacher, and professional artist. She has taught art in the Connecticut public schools for the last 27 years and currently teaches art/computer art at Greenwich High School in Greenwich, CT. She exhibits in New York City and is the co-author of Art and Technology: Innovative K-12 Digital Lessons. While studying for her doctorate degree, Sheyda travlered to Iran for nine years, completing her research on mentorship and apprenticeship practices in the traditional arts of Iran. She has conducted free art workshops in villages in Iran and in a juvenile detention center in Tehran. Dr. Ardalan taught art education at Teachers College/Columbia University for eighteen years. She speaks four languages and has lived in seven countries.

Alexandra Rutsch Brock is an artist, independent curator and educator. Born in Westchester, NY, she received her BFA in Fine Art & Art Education K-12 from the School of Visual Arts, NY and her MS in Studio Art from the College of New Rochelle, NY. She has been teaching at New Rochelle High School since 1991, where she started the annual Visiting Artists Program with Scott Seaboldt in 1993. Recent artists have included Alyse Rosner and Melissa Meyer (2020), Susan Luss (2019), Katherine Bradford (2018), Mario Moore (2017). She has exhibited nationally, and curated in smaller venues around NY including Studio 12N, NYC; MirandaArtsProjectSpace, Portchester, NY and the Pelham Art Center, NY. Her most recent curation “In Accordion Time” inspired by the pandemic was at the Ursa Gallery in Bridgeport, CT from November 2020 – February 2021.

Janet Rush is an educator, visual artist, and dancer, born in New York City and currently living and working in Westchester County, New York. Janet has enjoyed a career of creating paintings, illustrations, murals, scenic art, design and teaching visual arts as well as African dance. She has worked as a member of United Scenic Artists, Local 829, for Hudson Scenic, 40 Acres & A Mule, and other studios, in theater, television and film productions including, “Malcolm X”, “Lion King”, “Beauty and the Beast”, and “Saturday Night Live”. As a member of both companies, she danced with Sabar Akru Afrique Dance Company and the Akosua African Dance & Drum Troupe. Janet has worked for Westchester County departments of recreation and art galleries, volunteering as an African dance teacher. Janet’s education includes a B.A. from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, M.A. from the former Center for Graphic Communication Management and Technology at New York University, and is currently in the graduate program for Art and Art Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. Janet has also attended Maryland Institute, College of Art and the Ned Williams School of Theatre Dance. She is the visual arts teacher and facilitator for stage design at the Denzel Washington School of the Arts, in Mount Vernon, NY, where she teaches Studio Art I, II, III, and Advanced Placement Art & Design. Janet is the school’s yearbook advisor to the school’s 2021, first graduating class. In her spare time, Janet enjoys time with family, meditation and nature walks.

Ayelet Danielle Aldouby is a public art and social practice curator focused on art, education and wellness. She serves as a curatorial consultant at Residency Unlimited (RU), NYC and was the lead curator for IDEAS xLab - cultivating artists as agents of change. Aldouby curated “Re:Construction” public art projects for Alliance for Downtown NY; public video art in Times Square with ZAZ10 and projects with the International Artists’ Museum at the 51st & 52nd Venice Biennales. Recent publications include Then and Now - a Harlem Renaissance curriculum guide with the Wallach Gallery at Columbia University; Natchez: Inclusion and Soaps in Concinnitas: The Journal of the Institute of Arts /University of Rio de Janeiro and Seeing the Unseen in Trends - Texas Art Education Journal. Aldouby served as the president of the NAEA Community Art Caucus (CAC) and instructs community engagement at the Art and Art education program, Teachers' College.

Dr. Les Joynes (b. Santa Barbara, USA, 1963) is a contemporary visual artist and research scholar in the Department of International and Transcultural Studies at Teachers College. Les founded FormLAB in London in 1997 as a nomadic studio to explore artmaking through collaborative and dynamic processes. Joynes teaches Modern and Contemporary Art History and Experimental Practices at Renmin University, Beijing and recently lectures at Peking University, Cambridge University, the Bard-Smolny Contemporary Art Curating program in St. Petersburg and was Research Fellow at the University of the Arts London Research Center on Transnational Art, Identity and Nation. Educated in the US, UK and Japan he is a graduate of Boston University, Central Saint Martins College of Art, Goldsmiths, London; and Musashino Art University, Tokyo; He completed his doctoral research at the School of Contemporary Art and Graphic Design, Faculty of Art, Environment and Technology, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK; and Post-Doctorate exploring indigenous creative practices at the School of Art and Communications at University of São Paulo, Brazil. Les received Fulbright Awards for China and Mongolia and is recipient of the Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Award for his research at the School of Arts and Aesthetics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi in 2022.

Faculty and English Language Learning Specialist

Maryland Institute College of Art, Graduate Studies

sylee@mica.edu

Sukyun Lee earned a BA in Sociology from the University of Chicago and an MA in Applied Linguistics from Teachers College, Columbia University. As faculty at the Maryland Institute College of Art, Sukyun teaches liberal arts and provides culturally responsive pedagogy. She has 20 years of experience in curriculum development, training and administration. Her research includes intercultural communication, and corpus linguistics. Her immigrant journey informed her belief in the power and potential of education. She empowers students at the intersection of language and intercultural communication. She equips students with a repertoire of communication skills in an increasingly globalized world.

Executive Producer, Warmly Rée Media | www.darree.com

Visiting Lecturer, Maryland Institute College of Art

dhyun@mica.edu

Darrée Hyun is a TEFL-certified educator and media producer with a BA in Fine Art from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a MFA in Filmmaking from the Maryland Institute College of Art. She has over 15 years of experience creating narrative works and developing storytelling curriculum, and regularly facilitates workshops for institutes of higher education and lifelong learning. Darrée has also co-authored a textbook on Digital Marketing, produced multiple short films which have screened at film festivals across the United States, and is currently based in South Korea conducting research for her latest TV series.

Max Frieder is the Executive Director and Co-Founder of the international community-based public arts organization Artolution. He is a public artist and community arts educator from Denver, Colorado who is based out of New York City. He graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design with honors and a degree in Painting and received his Education Masters (Ed.M) in “Community Arts” in Art and Art Education from the Teachers College, Columbia University. He published a three-year body of research through his Education Doctorate (Ed.D) titled “ The Rohingya Artolution: Teaching Locally Led Community-based Public Art Educators in the Largest Refugee Camp in History”. He has worked with hundreds of communities in different contexts across the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, Australasia, Europe, North America and Asia. His work ranges from community building in refugee camps, art education in emergencies, hospital workshops, abuse and addiction support through art, trauma relief, reconciliation and conflict resolution. He is a trans-disciplinary artist, sculptor, puppeteer, teacher and facilitates collaborative mural programs that address critical local issues with children, youth and families. He created the “Foundstrument Soundstrument Project”, building large-scale interactive percussive sculptures out of trash and recycled materials around the world. His projects have taken him from Syrian, South Sudanese, Palestinian, and Greek refugee camps to conflict zones, traumatized communities, and across borders to over 26 countries globally. He has received recognition from the New York Times, CBS and the Associated Press. He planted the seeds for the first ongoing public arts program for Rohingya artists in the largest refugee camp in the world, in Bangladesh on the border of Myanmar. He is a published author contributing to “Art Making with Refugees and Survivors: Transformative Responses to Trauma after Natural Disasters, War and Other Crises”,as well as publishing with Global Citizen. For his global work, he was awarded the International Crisis Award from World of Children and UNICEF in 2018. His ranging work focuses on cultivating ongoing programs by educating local artists globally on how to transform communities through public engagement, creative facilitation and inspired participation as the next phase in the history of the arts.

Isin Önol is a curator and educator who focuses on interconnecting archival information with oral histories to create platforms for collective memory through collaborative art practices. She is a research scholar at the Center for the Study of Social Difference, Columbia University, and teaches at Montclair State University, Department of Art & Design. She was visiting faculty at the Social Design MA Program at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna (2016-17). Önol founded the Nesin Art Village, an independent art school in Turkey. She has produced more than 50 exhibitions internationally, and published on the intersection of social justice and art. Önol holds an MFA from Sabanci University, Istanbul, an MAS from Zürich University of the Arts, and is a PhD candidate at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna. She is a member of directors at Roberto Cimetta Fund.

Livia Alexander is a curator, writer, and Assistant Professor of Global Visual Cultures at Montclair State University. Her work is focused on examining the relationship between art infrastructure and artistic production, urbanity and placemaking, cultural politics of food and art, and contemporary art from the Middle East and Southeast Asia. She has curated and directed numerous art and film programs, exhibitions and events at renown worldwide venues. Her award-winning scholarly writing has appeared in the Journal of Visual Anthropology, Framework, MERIP, and as book chapters and catalog essays. She regularly contributes to Hyeprallergic, Harpers Bazaar Art Arabia, and Art Africa.

Dorit Naaman is a documentarist and film theorist from Jerusalem, and a professor of Film and Media and Cultural Studies at Queen’s University, Canada.  In 2016 she released an innovative interactive documentary, Jerusalem, We Are Here, offering a model for digital witnessing.  The project creates a novel platform that documentarist Liz Miller claimed “will become a ‘go to’ reference for educators working on the intersections of new media, oral history, geography and more.”

Dorit’s in-production collaborative project A Totem Pole on a Pile of Garbage: Contending with Colonial and Environmental Violence in Kingston, Ontario is situated in Belle Park and Belle Island, and continues her interest in using creative practice to make visible that which has been actively erased or obfuscated, as well as continuing her commitment to participatory practices.

Website:

https://www.queensu.ca/filmandmedia/faculty-and-staff/faculty-and-staff-bios/dorit-naaman

Rashin Fahandej is an Iranian-Amercian artist and filmmaker. Her projects center on marginalized voices and the role of media, technology, and public collaboration in generating social change. A proponent of “Art as Ecosystem,” she defines her projects as “Poetic Cyber Movement for Social Justice,” where art mobilizes a plethora of voices by creating connections between public places and virtual spaces. She is the founder of “A Father’s Lullaby, “ a multi-platform, co-creative project that highlights the role of men in raising children and their absence due to racial disparities in the criminal justice system.  Fahandej has served as an artist in residence at Boston Mayor office,  Boston Center for the Arts, Mass Cultural Council, ThoughtWork Arts and Scatter VR,  and Framingham Cultural Council.  She is a recipient of the James and Audrey Foster Prize at Institute of Contemporary Arts Boston and lead artist at American Arts Incubator at Ars Electronica. Fahandej is an assistant professor of Emerging Media at Emerson College, visiting scholar at MIT Open Documentary Lab and serves as a board member at Boston Center for the Arts and New Media Caucus.

Ashley Hunt uses image, object, word and performance to engage the ideas of social movements, the writing of history, and the sensing of our political environment. Beginning with his 2001 feature documentary, Corrections, this has included a focus on the U.S. prison system as it expresses the U.S.’ racial, colonial and economic histories, often engaged and programmed alongside the work of grassroots organizations. Ashley lives in Los Angeles, where he teaches in the Photography and Media program at CalArts.

http://ashleyhunt.info

Nicole Johnson is a visual artist and art educator from Kingston, Jamaica. She has had over ten years of experience teaching and mentoring collegiate pre-service art education students in her home city and in the United States. She has worked as an art education program chair in her home city and has developed art education curricula for the PK-12 and collegiate levels. Her visual arts practice is grounded in drawing and painting, and focuses on themes of Black female identity, (re)presentation/perception, and personal power. Nicole is currently a doctoral candidate in the Art and Art Education Program at Teachers College, Columbia University. Her core research interests are in the professional identity development and the lifelong education of art teacher educators.

mbraceli@mica.edu

Miguelbraceli.com 

Miguel Braceli is a multidisciplinary artist working at the intersection between art, architecture and education. His practice is focused on participatory projects in public space, exploring notions of borders, migrations, national identities and social-political conflicts. Most of these projects have been large scale works, developed in Latin America, Europe, and the United States. His most recent recognitions include Future Architecture Fellow, Young Artist Award of the Principality of Asturias, and AICA International Artist award. Braceli holds a MSc in Architecture from the Central University of Venezuela and a MFA from Maryland Institute college of Arts. He has led educational projects with institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art New York (MoMA), Matadero Madrid, the Embassy of United States and the Embassy of Spain in Venezuela. He has been a visiting professor in Umeå University and University of North Carolina. He is currently a Fulbright Scholar working and living in New York.

Neil Daigle Orians (he/they) is an artist, educator, and curator based in Hartford, CT. He received a BFA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and MFA from the University of Connecticut. He currently serves as Visual Arts Manager at Real Art Ways, an alternative nonprofit contemporary arts organization. His work is in private and public collections, including the Dodd Center at the University of Connecticut, the University of Iowa Print Archive and the Southern Graphics Council Archive. In addition to artistic and curatorial practices, he teaches at the University of Connecticut’s Hartford Campus in the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program.

Website: www.neilmakesthings.com

Bill Gaskins is professor and (re) Director of the Graduate Program in Photographic & Electronic Media at Maryland Institute College of Art. Prior to MICA Bill Gaskins has been on the faculty of School of the Art Institute of Chicago, University of Missouri, and Parsons School of Design. His depth of experience represents a rich tapestry of practice, as an artist, working in photography, video, and non-fiction writing. He is an informed teacher, scholar, and inspired professor, acknowledged by his students and peers for his teaching as a winner of the Watts Prize for Faculty Excellence, Cornell University Department of Art, and the University Distinguished Teaching Award at the New School University. The scholarly and creative work of Bill Gaskins explores questions about visual and media culture, the myths of photography and American life through depictions of race in visual culture in photography and media in the twenty-first century.

Gabo Camnitzer is an interdisciplinary artist and educator working at the intersection of education, sculpture, and video. Combining strategies of experimental pedagogy and participatory installation, Camnitzer’s work focuses on childhood as a site of ideological and material struggle. Camnitzer is Director of Foundations and Assistant Professor of Social Practice at UMass Dartmouth. He has held teaching positions at The Neighborhood Elementary School (PS 363), New York; Columbia University, New York; and Valand Academy, Gothenburg, Sweden. He has presented projects at venues such as Queens Museum, New York; GfZK, Leipzig; Artists Space, New York; Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm; Gertrude Contemporary Art Center, Melbourne; Museo Blanes, Montevideo, Uruguay. He received his MFA from Valand Academy, Gothenburg, Sweden and attended the Whitney Independent Study Program, New York. He sits on the editorial board of the art journal, Paletten. He is currently Artists-in-Residence at the Queens Museum.

Rachel Parish is an artist, mother, educator, and community organizer making interdisciplinary work through research and social practices. Whether creating new theatre in London, developing arts-based compassion trainings for law enforcement with the NYPD’s Hostage Negotiation Team, designing creative placemaking programs in Atlanta, or weaving historical texts in Oakland, her work is characterized by bringing together complex and often divided communities and guiding them through a collaborative co-creative process. Her work as a director, writer, dramaturg and visual artist has been seen in theatres, museums and galleries internationally at venues including Tate Britain, DeYoung Museum, Lyric Hammersmith, Battersea Arts Centre, Theatre503, Alliance Theatre, and Standpoint Gallery as well as at train stations, community centers, homes for the elderly, in streets, schools and online. http://rachelparish.com 

Susan Jahoda is an artist, educator, and organizer whose work includes video, photography, text, performance, installation and research based collaborative projects.  Currently, Jahoda is a core member of BFAMFAPhD, and a co-founder of The Pedagogy Group, collectives of socially engaged artists and educators based in New York City. Along with Caroline Woolard, she  is the co-author of Making and Being: Embodiment, Collaboration and Circulation in the Visual Arts. Other BFAMFAPhD projects have been exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum, and The Cue Foundation, NY amongst others. The collective has had residences at New Inc, NY and Pioneer Works, NY.  Jahoda has organized exhibitions and screenings including Documents from the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp, Interference Archive, Brooklyn, (2014-15), and was the arts editor for the journal, Rethinking Marxism, where she continued to serve as arts editor until 2014. Jahoda is currently a Professor of Art at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Sohee Koo is an artist and educator whose research and pedagogy focus on learners’ perspective transformation through visual arts, various ways of knowing, and fostering learner autonomy via personalizing, reflecting, critical and divergent thinking. Koo has chaired and presented her research at numerous conferences, including NAEA (National Art Education Association), CAA (College Art Association), FATE (Foundations in Art: Theories and Education), SHOT (Society for the History of Technology), and KoSEA (Korean Society for Education through Art). Koo is currently an Assistant Professor & Art Education program coordinator at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, while serving as a Higher Education Division Director at MAEA (Massachusetts Art Education Association) and an editorial board member of NAEA’s Art Education journal. Koo received her doctorate in Art & Art Education from Teachers College Columbia University in 2019.

Amanda has been an art educator for over twenty-six years. She has a B.A in Fine Arts from Bryn Mawr College, and an M.A. from TC in Art Education where she is ABD. Amanda holds NJ Certificates in Art and School Administration. She worked as art teacher and Arts Supervisor at NJ’s largest school for students with disabilities, and then joined NJSCA as Arts Education Associate managing the Artists-in-Education Program overseeing arts grants in K-12 schools. She has served as faculty for the Art Education program at TC, and is now at Moore College of Art and Design. Her research focuses on art education for students with diverse learning needs. She has presented at state, national and international conferences. Her most recent publication is a co-authored article entitled “Intersecting Identities: A Trioethnographic Exploration of How Disability Studies Informs Our Work as Artists, Educators, and Researchers”.

Lynn joined Moore in 2012 and serves as the Chair of Foundation. She received her BFA and MAT from the Maryland Institute College of Art and her MFA from Yale School of Art. Additionally, she attended residencies at Skowhegan, Yaddo and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Palewicz constructs and draws elaborate still-lives of fabric and nature alongside reflective surfaces. Her charcoal drawings aim to represent the complexities of our natural world juxtaposed with their distorted reflections. Her work has been exhibited widely; some venues include Rush Arts in NYC, Goucher College, Dutchess Community College, Fleisher Art Memorial, ArtSpace, and SCOPE. As an academic, Palewicz is a published writer and has presented at numerous panels across the US including Foundations in Art Theory and Education as well as the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Vassar College and Drexel University.

Dorothea Lasky is the author of six books of poetry and prose: Animal (Wave Books, 2019), as well as ROME (W.W. Norton/Liveright) and Milk, Thunderbird, Black Life, and AWE, all out from Wave Books. She is also the author of several chapbooks, including the forthcoming Snakes (Tungsten Press) and Poetry is Not a Project (Ugly Duckling Presse). Her poems have appeared in The Paris Review, The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, and Boston Review, among other places. She is the editor of Essays (Essay Press), co-editor of Open the Door: How to Excite Young People About Poetry (McSweeney's), and was a Bagley Wright Lecturer on Poetry. A recent article on small ‘c’ creativity was published last year in Thinking Skills and Creativity. She holds a doctorate in creativity and education from the University of Pennsylvania and has been educated at Harvard University, the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and Washington University.

Jessica Whitelaw is a former k-12 teacher and literacy curriculum leader who teaches at University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education. She received her B.A. from Mount Allison University in Canada; her M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction/Literacy Studies from the University of Colorado at Boulder; and her Ph.D. in Reading/Writing/Literacy from The University of Pennsylvania. Across her work in schools and the university she has been committed to working with teachers and students to engage imagination and the arts as ways of informing and transforming a critical agenda. Her research and teaching interests include arts-based inquiry, literacy, critical feminist epistemologies, teacher learning, and literature for children and youth. She is author of Arts-Based Literacy Teaching and Learning: Cultivating a Critical Aesthetic Practice, a book that explores an arts-based framework for centering the arts in the social and intellectual activity of everyday school life with a commitment to both joy and justice.

https://www.gse.upenn.edu/academics/faculty-directory/whitelaw

Stacey Salazar is the Vice Provost for Graduate Studies at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). A college art educator for nearly 30 years, she has received professional recognition for her teaching and research, including the NAEA Manuel Barkan Memorial Award, the Maryland Higher Education Art Educator of the Year, a MICA Trustee Fellowship for Excellence in Teaching, and a Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award for Visual Art: Works on Paper. Stacey’s forthcoming single-authored book, A Guide to Teaching Art at the College Level, will be published by Teachers College Press in September 2021. She serves as the chair of the College Teaching of Art Working Group of the NAEA Research Commission. Stacey holds a Doctorate of Education in Art and Art Education from Columbia University Teachers College, an M.A.T. from MICA, an M.F.A. in Painting from Towson University, and a B.A. from Randolph-Macon College.

HC Huỳnh is an artist and arts administrator working in New York City. Her work ranges from performance, video, installations, fiber, and painting. Huỳnh often plays a proxy character, The Dunce, to instigate, question, and subvert social interactions and semantics. Currently, she is the Operations Coordinator at The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, a 501c3 non-profit organization located in New York City dedicated to providing artists across all disciplines with space, tools and a cooperative forum for the development of individual practice. 

She holds an MFA in Painting and Drawing from Pratt Institute and BFA as a dual major in Painting and Studio Education from the Massachusetts College of Art & Design. She’s conducted public programming, talks, and panel discussions with The Immigrant Biennial, EFA Project Space, the City of Santa Clarita, and the United Nations.

Links:

http://www.hcthuynh.com/

https://www.efanyc.org/ 

Patricia Olynyk’s practice investigates the ways in which social systems, institutional structures, and the senses shape our understanding of our place in the world. Known for collaborating across disciplines on projects that explore the mind-brain relationship, theories related to the umwelt, and the phenomenology of perception, her work often interprets scientific objects and archives in various contexts. In 2007, Olynyk was appointed inaugural director of the Graduate School of Art and Florence and Frank Bush Professor of Art at Washington University, in St. Louis, where she holds courtesy appointments in Medical Humanities and the Center for Humanism and Ethics in Surgical Specialties, School of Medicine. Her work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions internationally at Palazzo Michel, Venice, The National Academy of Sciences, Washington, and Galeria Grafica, Tokyo. Olynyk also co-directs the Leonardo/ISAST NY LASER program, New York, which promotes cross-disciplinary exchange between artists, scientists, and humanists.

David Scott Armstrong is an artist and Associate Professor at York University teaching in the Department of Visual Art & Art History (Toronto, Ontario). He received his MFA from the University of Western Ontario (2000) and his BFA from the University of Alberta (1995). Teaching interests at the undergraduate level include print-based and related media (drawing, photo/digital) pedagogically focused on the relation between looking, making, and thinking. He supervises graduate students across all studio disciplines at the MFA and PhD level. His prints, drawings and bookworks have been exhibited nationally and internationally, in solo and group/juried exhibitions in Canada, the US, Estonia, Russia, Japan, and Brazil. In 2008 he co-edited and wrote for a special issue of the journal Visible Language, “After the Grave: Language and Materiality in Contemporary Art”. His current studio work explores photogravure and cliché verre, where he is interested in the relation between image and matter.

Personal Website: https://davidscottarmstrong.com/home.html 

Institutional Website: https://ampd.yorku.ca/profile/david-scott-armstrong/ 

Holly Ward is an Assistant Professor in the Visual Arts department at York University. She holds a Graduate degree from the University of Guelph Studio Arts program, and Bachelor degrees from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University and the University of New Brunswick. Ward has taught Visual Arts at many of Canada’s leading arts institutions, such as University of British Columbia, Emily Carr University of Art and Design, and Simon Fraser University. She developed the first Visual Arts online course for the University of Guelph’s School of Fine Arts and Music program. She is the recipient of the Ontario Graduate Scholarship, as well as the Joseph Beuys Memorial Scholarship (NSCAD). Ward maintains an active artistic practice and has received numerous grants and public commissions, including Cosmic Chandelier, a permanent public commission for Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, BC. She is represented by Republic Gallery in Vancouver, BC.

http://hollyward.org/

https://www.republicgallery.com/holly-ward

http://hollywardpavilion.blogspot.com/

Lise Kjaer is a Danish artist, who lives and works in New York. She received an MFA with Distinction from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Poland, and a Ph. D. in Art History from The Graduate Center, City University of New York. Kjaer has exhibited internationally in Denmark, Finland, Germany, Poland and the United States. She is the recipient of a Fulbright scholarship, Bamse Kragh Jakobsen’s Mindelegat, and has been an artist-in-residency at NIFCA, Helsinki, Finland; The Danish Art Council; The Danish Art Studios, Copenhagen; and Hollufgaard Artist Studios in Odense, Denmark. Kjaer is a Lecturer (Doctoral Schedule) at the City College of New York, City University of New York, where she teaches 20th century and contemporary art.

www.lisekjaer.com

Dylan Gauthier is a Brooklyn-based artist, designer, curator and educator. Working in a range of media including sound, performance, video, sculpture, and photography, he makes research-based and collaborative projects about ecology, architecture, landscape, and environmental justice. Gauthier is a founder of the Sunview Luncheonette, a co-op for art and politics in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, and of the waterfront publishing collective Mare Liberum. He is co-organizer, with Mariel Villeré, of Freshkills Field R/D, an artist-research residency based at NYC's largest (former) landfill. Gauthier received his MFA from Hunter College and teaches art, design, and systems at Parsons, The New School.

Adam Hogan is an artist, cinematographer, and researcher. His practice is deeply engaged within the formal cinematic exploring how media technologies shape our perception through our relationships to the spaces that surround us. His independent and collaborative expanded cinema works have been exhibited and screened at the Athens Digital Arts Festival, the #PostFuture Tour, Saristra Festival in Cephalonia, Greece, Meany Center for the Performing Arts in Seattle, Meadows Museum of Art, Bradbury Art Museum, the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, among others. Hogan's cinematography work has been programmed in national and international festivals including the Berlinale, Sheffield Doc Fest, Il Cinema Ritrovato, SFFilm, DOC NYC, and the Ann Arbor Film Festival. It has also been screened or featured in collections at the Metropolitan Museum, the Smithsonian Institute, Ryan Lee Gallery, Jack Straw New Media Gallery, Good Docs, and Amazon Prime. He is also the co-founder of Artists Tapes, a collaborative project that strives to save new media works, experimental films, and rare cinematic treasures through preservation, digital restoration and migration. Hogan holds an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis and is a member of the Digital Arts and Experimental Media Ph.D program at the University of Washington, Seattle. He is currently based out of the Ozarks at the University of Arkansas, School of Art as the Head of Experimental Media Arts.

Sophia Di Vitto, M.A., is a devoted artist and educator. She is currently combining her passions as an Art Teacher at the Boston Higashi School in Randolph, MA. She received her education degree from Teachers College, Columbia University in 2019, a Masters of Arts in Art and Art Education with Initial Teaching Certification. To gain experience and pay for graduate school, Sophia became a substitute teacher, and ended up bonding with an elementary special education classroom. Little did she know it would alter her career path, it led her to working as a paraprofessional for several years, and now as an art teacher for students with Autism. Sophia built her art foundation at Savannah College of Art and Design, SCAD, with a BFA, majoring in Jewelry and minoring in Art History. She loves to see her students discover new skills in different materials, feel successful, and find their paths.

Jinyoung Koh is an Assistant Professor in Art + Design, Art History, Art Education at Towson University in Maryland. His research focuses on cross cultural identity and visual culture. Dr. Koh earned a BFA from the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA in photography and media from the California Institute of the Arts. He completed his education with both a Master of Education and a Doctor of Education in Art & Art Education from Teachers College, Columbia University. He is also a studio artist who has exhibited his work internationally. His art has received numerous awards and is included in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Rockefeller Foundation, and others.

Emily L. R. Adams earned her MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Human Ecology (2015) and her BFA from the Columbus College of Art & Design (2005). Emily Adams is a printmaking technician and teaches printmaking and drawing at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA. Her work explores the influences of historic gender binaries and the impact on social mobilities for women.  

She has apprenticed under master printmakers at Pace Editions, NY, Pace Paper, NY, and Tandem Press, WI. Significant achievements include Sustainable Prisons Project workshop instructor at Stafford Creek Corrections Center, Artist Residency at Zea Mays, Florence, MA 2018, The David and Edith Sinaiko Woman in the Arts Award 2015, New American Painting Magazine, 2015. She is highly active in the arts, local community, mentoring young people, advocating for women’s rights, and transformative justice. She currently spends her free time volunteering at a horse farm.

Personal Website: https://www.loulandunderground.com/ 

Institutional Website: https://www.evergreen.edu/visualarts/printmaking 

Katharine Kreisher, Professor of Art, Coordinator of Minor in Documentary Photography and Co-founder of Round House Press. She holds an M.F.A., MA The University at Albany, State University of New York. B.S. Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs. Katharine teaches courses in documentary photography and alternative processes as well as photo-related printmaking methods. Her autobiographical work centers on highly manipulated photographic images and photo-etchings. Kreisher is a founding member of the Round House Press at Hartwick College. She was an artist in residence at Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY. Kreisher has been part of numerous exhibitions including "Hair" curated by Alison Ferris for John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI, and the international traveling exhibition, "Diamonds are Forever: Artists and Writers on Baseball." Her work has been collected by The Center for Photography at Woodstock and Albany Institute of History and Art, among others. 

Personal Website: https://www.katharinekreisherinstallations.com/ 

Institutional Website: https://www.hartwick.edu/academics/academic-departments/art-art-history-department/ 

Sam Dorgan is a Lecturer at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, TN and an interdisciplinary artist who creates semiotic environments through material play and subversion of expectations. The viewer is invited to experience the work through free associations and memory. Dorgan holds a Bachelor’s in Business from Belmont University, a Bachelor’s in Fine Arts from the University of Cincinnati, and a Master’s of Fine Arts from Miami University.  Solo and group exhibitions include: ENEM Space in Sacramento CA, Space Contemporary in Corpus Christi TX, Valdosta State University in Valdosta GA, Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi and Venice Art House in Venice, Italy, and Czong Institute of Contemporary Art (CICA) in Gimpo-si, Korea.

www.samdorgan.com

www.mtsu.edu/art/index.php

Associate Professor of Art & Director of the Art Education Program

Moravian College

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA

I graduated from the Art and Art Education Program at Teachers College in 2005. Since 2009, I've been a faculty member at Moravian College where I teach courses such as Curriculum Design in Art Education, Artistic Development of Children and Adolescents, Creativity and Imagination in Young Children, and Material Investigations. In 2016, I earned a yoga teacher certification and completed training in trauma-informed teaching. Since then, I've also been teaching a First Year Writing Seminar called “Yoga & Writing" at Moravian College.  

I continue to teach children and teens throughout the Lehigh Valley as a teaching artist for the Banana Factory Arts Center and an art educator at the Northampton County Juvenile Justice Center. Through my work with Shanthi Project, I also teach art and mindfulness in K-12 after school programs in the Allentown Public School District.

In 2019, my book Creating Vibrant Art Lessons: A Teacher's Sketchbook, was published by Teachers College Press.

Personal Website:

https://www.kristinbaxter.org/

She is a designer, researcher and assistant professor at the City College of New York. She holds an MFA in Visual Studies from Minneapolis College of Art and Design. She also has a B.A. in studio art and music from Macalester College. She once installed a restaurant at SooVAC, where people could make books that resembled different breakfast food like toast, fruit, cheese and egg. While sleeping on a pizza bed, she continues to dream about international cuisine that could be turned into pop-up books.

Link to website:

https://sherrymuyuanhe.com/

Borim Song is Associate Professor at the School of Art and Design of East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA. She holds her Ed.D. and Ed.M. from Teachers College, Columbia University in New York City. Her scholarly interests include digital art instruction, online education practice, contemporary art in K-12 curriculum, cross-cultural and intercultural movements, and community-based art education for underserved population. Song’s writings on art, art education, and cultural studies appear in publications in both the U.S. and Korea. She is a recipient of the 2021 Kathy Connors Teaching Award (NAEA Women’s Caucus), 2021 Achievement in International Research/Creative Activity Award (East Carolina University), and 2020-2021 Higher Educator of the Year Award (North Carolina Art Education Association).

borimsong.com

https://art.ecu.edu/faculty-staff/borim-song/

https://ecu.academia.edu/BorimSong

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Borim_Song

https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=t2z437oAAAAJ

Nargol Gharahshir, BA (* 1994 in Vienna) is involved with art, design, research and education. Currently she is a team-member of the arts-based research project “DEMEDARTS”, located at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), within the PEEK- program. In addition to her teacher-training, she spent a year as a guest-student in the class "Graphic & Printmaking" under Jan Svenugsson and from 2017-2018 she went to Lisbon through the Erasmus program.

Born in Vienna, her Iranian roots influence her artistic work and she strongly explores the possibilities of non-verbal communication. Haptics, performance, trust and sensitization are keywords she deals with.

Student assistant and junior researcher at the Center for Didactics of Art and Interdisciplinary Education.

Personal Website: http://cargocollective.com/zahrenar

Leekyung Kang creates spatial illusions by capturing unseen architectural spaces between the second and third dimensions. Influenced by Kang’s training as a painter and printmaker, the work focuses on the materiality of each medium. She utilizes diverse perspectives within architectural contexts that challenge the perception of space. In her exploration of the processes of mechanical reproduction, Kang often inserts errors or glitches from digital processes into her video works and prints. Kang earned her MFA from Rhode Island School of Design and BFA from Seoul National University. She has taught at Rhode Island School of Design, Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar, and currently working in Idaho State University as an assistant professor. She has participated in several residencies internationally including the Fountainhead fellowship at Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar and the Vermont Studio Center. Kang’s work has been exhibited in South Korea, Doha, Qatar and throughout the U.S.

Rikiesha Metzger is a multifaceted community artist working with themes related to race, identity, and beauty. Originally from Philadelphia, PA, she has traveled extensively, as an artist interested in experiencing and collaborating with people from diverse cultures and backgrounds. Built upon a strong spiritual foundation, she desires to teach people how various forms of art can provide them with an outlet for self-expression.

As a socially engaged artist, her professional and research interests revolve around the transformative power of art and its ability to create new experiences, rebirth, and reignite the spirit of underserved communities. As a working mom, adjunct professor at MICA, and art teacher at Hampden Christian School, Rikiesha believes the Creator of the Universe helps her to balance all aspects of her life. Currently, Rikiesha is a student at the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts, pursuing a degree in Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Art Theory.

Personal and Institutional Websites:

www.rikiesha.com

www.idsva.edu

www.mica.edu 

https://www.nyclabschool.org/

My name is Joanne Riina-Denune and I am an art teacher at NYC LAB High School. I attended Pace University and received a Bachelor of Science degree in Early Childhood Education with a concentration in creative arts and then went on to pursue a Master's degree in Art Education from School of Visual Arts. I have been teaching art for 17 years in New York City, which includes teaching in a middle school setting. My pedagogy centers around the creative process, providing opportunities for students to grow on emotional and personal levels through making meaning of the world around them. Teaching towards these anchors allows for building a safety net in which to practice creative risk-taking, learning from failure, building grit, and communicating effectively.

Dr. Kyungeun Lim received her Ph.D. from Indiana University Bloomington, double majoring in 1) Art Education in Curriculum & Instruction, and 2) Comparative Education in Education Policy Studies. She holds an M.A in Art Education and a B.F.A in Fine Art, focusing on painting and minor in Art Education from Seoul National University. She has been teaching arts and education from elementary school students to adults at schools, museums, and higher education institutions in traditional classroom settings and online classrooms-both synchronous and asynchronous. At UNCW, she teaches courses of arts integration for elementary education, apprentice field experience, and student internship in the Department of Elementary, Middle, Literacy, and Special Education at Watson College of Education. Her research interests include art appreciation and arts integration, STEAM, art appreciation, teacher preparation, and policy contexts in education.

Personal Website:

https://www.kyungeunlim.com/

Clare Kambhu is an artist and public school teacher based in New York City. She holds a BFA in studio art and MA in art education from New York University and an MFA in painting/printmaking from the Yale School of Art. She has taught in the Yale Prison Education Initiative and has collaborated with the organization, Art and Resistance Through Education, to facilitate bilingual mural workshops for high school students. Clare currently teaches high school art at The Clinton School and maintains a painting based art practice from her studio in Woodside, Queens. She curated a booth at last year’s SPRING/BREAK art show. She is also the recipient of an upcoming apexart Travel Fellowship.

clarekambhu.com

https://ckambhu.myportfolio.com/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzWTfOG2KqKrTziyNH_3LTQ/videos

Wheaton College, BA

Ohio University, MFA Ceramics

15 years K-5 Visual Art Educator

Personal Art Practice painting/printmaking

lynn.westergren@apsva.us 

Wittenberg University, BA

Teachers College Arts in Education, MA

24 years K-5 Visual Art Educator

Personal Art Practice painting/printmaking

stacey.lewis@apsva.us 

Sarah Rowles is the Founding Director of Q-Art (q-art.org.uk), a UK based art organisation that aims to break down the barriers to art education and the contemporary art world. Q-Art organises symposia, runs workshops, and produces books and videos that feature interviews with further and higher education art staff from across a range of art schools and universities. Examples of publications include ‘Art Crits: 20 Questions’ (2013) and ‘Professional Practice: 20 Questions’ (2016). In addition to her role with Q-Art Sarah also works part-time as a fine at theory lecturer at Arts University Bournemouth, as a Postgraduate Teaching Assistant on the MA Art and Design in Education at the Institute of Education, University College London (UCL), and is currently studying for a Doctorate in Education at UCL.

www.q-art.org.uk

sarah.rowles@q-art.org.uk

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-rowles-44059b17/

Patricia Miranda, MFA, is founder of MAPSpace and The Crit Lab. She has been Visiting Artist/lecturer at Heckscher Museum, University of Utah, Montclair State University, Fairfield University, and Purchase College. She received an Anonymous Was a Woman Relief Grant, an artist grant from ArtsWestchester/NYSCA, and an NEA grant working with homeless youth. Miranda teaches graduate curatorial studies at Western Colorado University; was graduate faculty at New Hampshire Institute of Art (2016-20); PIR at University of New Haven (Lyme Academy 2005-19), and led the first study abroad program in Italy (2017). She was director of the Gallery at Concordia College-NY 2008-12. Miranda has developed education programs for Franklin Furnace, the Guggenheim Museum, American Museum of Natural History, and Smithsonian Institution. Her work has been exhibited at ODETTA Gallery, ABC No Rio, Wave Hill, NYC; University of CT Avery Point; and the Belvedere Museum, Austria.

Website:

www.patriciamiranda.com

www.thecritlab.com

My holistic education—Waldorf, Bennington and Teachers College—introduced me to the Renaissance ideal—an interconnected world. This philosophy encourages life-long learning in thinking and practice, viewing mistakes as happy accidents to be learned from in open dialog with the environment. Combining traditional and new media with a technology tool-set expands our horizons, pushes our designs as a dialogue between ourselves, our creations and our world.

My mentors have shared and deepened my passions. In 2012 the Global Masters Development Program took me to Bangladesh where I experienced the devastation of “Extreme Poverty.” In 2013, I created a sculpture using 3-D technologies with the Digital Stone Project, Italy. Two years later I showed K-12 educators ways of incorporating creative technologies efficiently, innovatively, and effectively into their lesson plans. Last year I had the opportunity to create a twelve-month Mix- Reality curriculum program for Westchester Community College, for fall 2021.

Personal Website:

nicknytz.com

Gaetano LaRoche is an artist and scholar who has long taught art to high school students in both urban and rural communities.  He earned a doctorate in Art and Art Education from Teachers College Columbia University, a MAT in Art Education from Rhode Island College, and a BFA from the Cooper Union in NYC.  He received a Pollock-Krasner grant for his paintings and drawings.  His scholarly work has been published in the journals Art Education and The American Journal of Art Therapy.

Personal Website: gaetanolaroche.com 

William is currently the Online Director in the School of Graphic Design at the Academy of Art University. He is an advocate and representative for his students and fellow faculty colleagues and staff. He has been a design educator since 2006 and has an extensive background in learning design and delivery with experiences in face-to-face, hybrid and online education. 

His academic background includes course design, writing and building; program planning, development and implementation; and program assessments and evaluations. William teaches at all levels of classes in both graduate and undergraduate programs and has teaching experiences ranging from typography to interaction design to capstone portfolio. 

Since 2000, William has worked on a variety of print and digital visual communication projects for both public and private organizations. He has worked in all facets of the design industry from typesetting at the local newspaper to being the creative director for national campaigns.

His artistic work encompasses a variety of mixed media and visual messaging through typography. His work is often interactive and customized to reflect locations, situations, conversations and observations from the built environment.

Personal Website

http://www.williamculpepper.com

Institutional Website

http://www.academyart.edu

Iandry Randriamandroso is a community artist, muralist, graphic artist, and educator. He is a part time instructor at University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

He specializes in visual and mixed media art-making that focuses on environmental and social subjects. He received a B.F.A. from St. John’s University and an M.A. in Community Arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art.

His goal is to create art that is inclusive and accessible to everyone. He uses his artworks as educational tools to facilitate inclusive and hands-on presentations, community arts workshops, art classes, and mural projects in public and private venues.

Link to personal website: https://www.bmorebirds.com/

Barak Pelman is an architectural educator, learning designer and a researcher. He is a member of Bezalel Art and Design Teaching Center, and serves as the Head of Advanced Studies at Bezalel Architecture Department. He studied architecture at Tel-Aviv University and at Helsinki University of Technology, and he holds a Master's Degree in Sustainable Environmental Design from the Architectural Association School of Architecture London, where he also taught at the Environment and Energy studies Program, and at the M.Arch Design & Make. Currently, Barak is a PhD candidate at Design Hybrid Lab which focuses on digital design, craft and fabrication, and human-computer interaction. In his PhD Barak focuses on the role of craft in design and architecture education.

Personal Website:

Teaching.bp@bezalel.ac.il

Head of Bezalel Art and Design Teaching Center, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design Jerusalem

Merav Salomon is the head of the Bezalel Art and Design Teaching Center. She is a member of the founding group of the BTC at Bezalel Academy, paving the way to its role and status today - formulating and conceptualizing the unique characteristics of academic teaching Art, Craft & Design. Salomon is a Professor for Illustration at the Visual Communication Graduate and Undergraduate programs, where she has been the director of the Illustration Track from 2007 to 2018.  She is an illustrator, book artist and the founder of the independent publishing house Salomon & Daughters. Salomon’s work has been exhibited in museums and galleries worldwide. She is the winner of multiple international illustration awards such as the 2015 Gold Medal from the NY Society of Illustrators, 2013 Gold medal of the AOI UK Best Illustrated book, and the 2014 Israel Ministry of Culture winner.

Personal Website:

mirbslom1@post.bezalel.ac.il

www.meravsalomon.com

Cindy T. Davis is an instructor at SUNY New Paltz and a teaching fellow  at the University of North Texas.  As an  instructor and teaching fellow she provides both in-person and remote instruction for pre-service art educators, supervises student-teachers, and oversees student fieldwork. Courses taught include Contemporary Approaches in Art Education, Theory and Practice in Art Education, Curriculum and Instruction, Special Topics: Art Lab, Computer Art Education,  and Art Integration for Non-Art Education majors. Prior to moving to the university to pursue her PhD in art education with a design specialty, Cindy was a preK-12 art teacher working with experience in  public schools, summer camps, International Baccalaureate programs, and private instruction. Cindy has presented at NAEA, TAEA and FAEA conferences.  Her artistic practice includes charcoal and graphite drawings, mixed media art, acrylic paintings, and ceramics.

Roshanak Keyghobadi is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Visual Communications at Farmingdale Sate College. She holds a doctoral degree in Art and Art Education from Teachers College, Columbia University and her MFA and BFA are both in Graphic Design. She has written regularly on contemporary art and design for publications such as Neshan, Design Observer and Voice and her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in museums and galleries. Roshanak owns and teaches at Art Circle Studio in Long Island, New York and her recent art practice and teaching is focused on mixed media collage.

Links on Instagram:

@roshanak_and_students

@roshanakkeyghobadi

Courtney Treglia is the Printmaking Studio Fellow in the Art and Art Education program at Teachers College at Columbia University. After receiving her M.A. in Art and Art Education at TC last May, Courtney is continuing her research in the Ed.M. program, advocating for the intersection of arts and mental health with the unique perspective of printmaking during the pandemic. In her artistic practice, Courtney utilizes traditional forms of printmaking with surrealist sci-fi and fantasy compositions to process emotions, trauma, and current events. Working in the developmental bookends of early childhood education and graduate level higher education for six years has taught Courtney that mental health and an open-minded arts pedagogy are necessary at any age to expand our sense of humanity.

Link to personal website: 

https://courtneytreglia.wixsite.com/portfolio

https://www.teacherscollegeprintmaking.com/

Anna Showers-Cruser (they/them) is a multimedia artist and educator, with roots in the Blue Ridge Mountains and a belief in the radical potential of a handmade gesture. With a decade of teaching experience in museums, arts non-profit organizations, collaborative virtual platforms, and universities, ASC looks for any opportunity to shift from product-driven institutional traditions to progressive, intersectional formats. Their teaching practice focuses on accessibility, process, and play. ASC is a 2020 3Arts grant recipient and was an Artist-in-Residence with Chicago Artists Coalition. ASC is Adjunct Faculty with Maryland Institute College of Art and a Lecturer with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. They hold an MFA from the University of Chicago, and a BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art.

Personal Website: http://annashowerscruser.com

A designer, educator, and urbanist; Michelle is an Assistant Professor at Marywood University focusing on the communication of design ideas to diverse audiences in addition to the execution of full-scale build projects. Her expertise is in innovative methods of communication, including graphic representation, virtual reality, full-scale mock-ups, and workshops as a means to convey design ideas, opening the conversation to engage a broader audience in the design process.

She is particularly interested in engagement in the design process as an integral step towards an empowered community. Michelle is driven by the power of the design thinking methodology to address design through a comprehensive approach that is both user-centered and interdisciplinary. Her current research focuses on innovative participation methods to create a stronger connection between students and their local communities. These projects explore the complex relationship between design and technology as a mechanism to communicate with a diverse audience.

Jaymie Paige Stein loves her kindergarten through 8th grade art students in Paterson, New Jersey and is currently personally concerned at the dramatic decrease of hugs she receives in a given day because of the pandemic. Teaching in an elementary school is a blessing for many reasons, but especially because of the hugs. She's finishing up her PhD in Fordham University’s Graduate School of Education’s Contemporary Learning and Interdisciplinary Research program where her research interests include art education and poverty, rooted in social justice. Currently, she is finishing up her dissertation exploring the relationship between teacher perceptions of creativity in schools and their practices in STEAM education.

Laura Elayne Miller is an Interdisciplinary Artist and Visiting Professor of Art Practice at Saint Mary’s College of California. Her artwork is rooted in Creative Practice Research employing a variety of media with a focus on film/video, installation art, sculpture, mixed-media photography, and performance, exploring memory, translation, and perceptions of space and place. Her work has been shown across the USA and Europe, including Fort Mason and Artists’ Television Access in San Francisco, The Mission Projects and Center for Book & Paper Arts in Chicago, and Albus Lux Gallery in Roosendaal, Netherlands. Recent awards include: Artist-in-Residence, Presidential Visiting Scholar at Lane Community College, and the Arts Research Fellowship with Common Field. A passionate educator, Laura has taught a wide range of studio art courses at multiple institutions, loves to devise curriculum, and feels privileged to work with diverse populations of students embarking on their artistic careers.