Staff

Sam is the Art and Art Education Program Manager. Prior to joining TC in 2017, Sam worked in museum education and administration at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Memorial Art Gallery of Rochester. As a career art educator and arts administrator, Sam has taught studio art and art history courses in museums, classrooms and community settings for over a decade. She holds a B.S. in Art Education and an M.A. in Art History from Columbia University. Sam is also a practicing artist and currently teaches community ceramics classes near her home in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn.

Office: MY 444-F

Erin is the Art and Art Education Program Secretary and the voice of arted@tc.columbia.edu. Erin is a recent Bard College graduate who received her B.A. in the Interdisciplinary Study of Religion. Her Undergraduate thesis, ‘I Repel His Blows with a Bare Breast:’ The Attempted Conversion of an Early Modern Italian Jewish Woman, examines the epistolary relationship between poet, Sarra Copia Sulam, and Italian priest, Ansaldo Cebà. Outside of Teachers College, Erin volunteers and Interns at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and practices Italian language. Brought up in Midcoast, Maine, Erin continues her relationship with the coast by oyster shucking at pop-ups throughout Brooklyn.

Office: MY 444-G

Carolina Rojas is a Colombian artist-educator and designer, who has lived and worked between Bogotá and New York. Her art and design work spans 18 years. She served as an Associate Professor (undergraduate and master’s) for nine years in the School of Design at Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá. Carolina is pursuing an Ed.D.CT. in Art and Art Education at Teachers College, where she teaches and is an Art Education Design Fellow. Carolina is a recipient of the Fulbright Doctoral Fellowship (2019). She previously earned an M.F.A. in Digital Arts from Pratt Institute, New York, and a Specialist Degree in Design and Television Production from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá. Carolina has a B.A. with a focus on Electronic Media and Time Arts from Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá. Carolina’s artwork ranges from analog and digital drawings to sculptural assemblages, and installations. Her artwork focuses on the dichotomy of life and death. Enchanted by Victorian collections of curiosities and the immortality of biological specimens, she developed an interest in working in the fields of nonhuman animals, their mortality, and conservation. Carolina’s current art practice and research connect art, education, and the natural sciences regarding human–nonhuman animal relationships. Her pedagogical and artistic productions have received recognition through collective and individual presentations and exhibitions. Currently, her work is part of Sketch Gallery. In addition, she has developed illustration, editorial, and graphic design projects for local and international agencies and institutions.

Amanda is a Master's student in the Art and Art Education program at Teachers College, concentrating on museum education. She is from Tucson, Arizona, where she worked with local art museums, focusing on K-12 engagement in the museum and studio setting. 

Amanda is passionate about the possibilities art spaces provide for education and community involvement, and is excited to bring her Southwest experience to the Macy Gallery! 

Larry Tung is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, journalist, and media educator in New York City. He teaches courses in media and communication in the Department of Performing and Fine Arts at York College/CUNY. A native of Taiwan, he holds an M.F.A. in Television Production from Brooklyn College and an M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University. His journalism career started in Taiwan where he worked as a political reporter for the English-language Taiwan News. He received several fellowships, including Vanderbilt University Media Fellowship, and the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Faculty Fellowship. Tung’s films focus on social justice and human rights issues and have screened in more than 70 film festivals around the world. In his free time, he enjoys movies, tennis, reading newspapers, and exploring new restaurants.

Marvin Cabrera is a doctoral student in the Art and Art Education Program. His research is focused on African influences within the arts in the Dominican Republic. More specifically, he is interested in the cross-section of identity, freedom schools, and artistic practices. Marvin has worked extensively in the non-profit field with kindergarten through college-age students developing academic, career, and enrichment programs. He is currently an Adjunct Lecturer at City College's Spitzer School of Architecture and is the co-founder of Art in a Suitcase, an organization that promotes global understanding through the arts, between children in Bangladesh and the United States. 

Tannon Reckling is a new Thingspace Fellow and a newArt and Art Education Ed.D. Doctoral Student. Reckling is also a recent Visiting Assistant Professor and Coordinator of Digital Media Technology at Manhattan University. Reckling received an MFA from University of Oregon and an MA from New York University. Reckling’s writing has appeared in Artforum, Frieze, Brooklyn Rail, e-flux, Film Quarterly, and others. Reckling has been at Whitney Museum of American Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, UCLA, FIT, School of Visual Arts, Sarah Lawrence College, Stony Brook University, and more. Reckling teaches both in studio art and new media settings. Please reach out!

Joe Cimino is an Italian-American time-based media artist, musician, and adjunct professor, currently based in New York City. He is currently a doctoral student at Teachers College, Columbia University, and holds an MFA in studio art from Studio Arts College International (SACI), located in Florence, Italy, and a BFA in studio art from Rowan University. Cimino has exhibited his works in the United States and internationally, with solo and group exhibitions located in Florence, Italy, Gimpo, South Korea, Chelsea, New York City, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Gdansk, Poland. He is also a member of the international artist collective, Teleportal. 

Yihui (Cece) Jiao (she/her) is a multimedia artist and visual designer. She conveys her philosophical and psychological ideas mainly through drawings, animations and installations. She experiments with the combination of new media and traditional crafts. Her artistic practices thematically focus on mental status, self development, human cognition and visual culture.

She is originally from Shanghai, China and has been living in the United States for more than a decade. She has BA degrees in both Psychology and Studio Art from Indiana University Bloomington. She studied animation and received her post-baccalaureate certificate at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and completed her MFA degree in Computer Arts from School of Visual Arts in NYC. 

Presently, she is a doctoral student in Art and Art Education Ed.D.C.T program and hybrid studio fellow at Myers Media Art Studio and Thingspace Studio at Teachers College Columbia University.

Isabelle McCormick is a doctoral student and Painting and Drawing Studio Fellow at Teachers College, Columbia University. She employs traditional oil painting techniques, textured acrylic, and sculptural relief in her studio practice to render virtual space. Isabelle received her MFA in Painting from Cranbrook Academy of Art. She is a graduate of the Brown University | Rhode Island School of Design Dual Degree Program, where she earned a BFA in Painting and BA in Literary Arts. Isabelle has served as the Resident Fellow for RISD’s European Honors Program in her mother’s native Rome, Italy. She has exhibited her paintings throughout the US and abroad, with solo exhibitions at Août Gallery in Beirut, Belle Isle Viewing Room in Detroit, and Night Club Gallery in the Twin Cities. She has participated in international art fairs such as NADA New York, and her work has been featured in New American Paintings. 

Neal Flynn is an artist, student, researcher, and art educator. In these integrated roles he is privileged to engage with ideas through inquiry, discourse, and art making in a variety of community contexts. Central to this engagement is his interest in activating creative fields, practices, sites, and tools to prioritize community-identified needs and initiate change. 

Neal’s creative approach often involves looking closely at familiar materials with a goal of better understanding his relationship to the people, places, networks, and histories they are part of. He has participated in group exhibitions in Maryland, New York, and California, and presented his first solo exhibition at the Dougherty Art Center in Austin, TX, in 2023. He is a current doctoral student in the Art & Art Education program at Teachers College, Columbia University. 

Maggie is a ceramicist & arts educator based in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Art History & French from the University of Virginia, where she trained as a teaching artist at the Fralin Museum of Art. She comes to Teachers College from New York’s art fair world, working first for Frieze and later for Independent. 

Maggie started working with clay at eighteen while interning for the education department of her hometown art museum — her introduction to both museum education and ceramics. She’s been engaged in both fields ever since. Maggie is currently pursuing her graduate degree in art & arts education at Teachers College, Columbia University with a concentration in museum education. She is the acting fellow of the Teachers College ceramics studio. 

Carina D. Maye is an educator, researcher, and artist from Marietta, Georgia. She is a fourth-generation graduate of the Unsinkable Albany State University in Albany, Georgia, where she earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Art. She received a Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture at Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) in Atlanta, GA. While in her fifth year of college teaching, Carina completed a Master of Arts in Business Design and Arts Leadership at SCAD in Atlanta, GA. 

She is a Doctoral Candidate in the Art and Art Education Program at Teachers College (TC), Columbia University, New York, NY. Carina has served in various roles at TC, but currently, she advises incoming MA and Ed.M students in the Program. As a researcher, Carina Maye studies the intersections of art, race, culture, place, and memory.

Erika Vogt is a sculptor who lives and works in Jersey City, New Jersey.   Vogt’s sculptures have taken the form of installations and collaborative theatrical performances.   Vogt works materially across mediums including time.  Past institutional solo exhibitions have included the New Museum in New York, the Hepworth Wakefield in West Yorkshire, and Triangle France in Marseille.  Their work has been exhibited and screened at institutions including Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, MIT’s List Visual Arts Center, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Hammer Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Centre Pompidou, and REDCAT.  Theatrical commissions include The Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2014 and Performa in New York City in 2015.  

Recent writings about their work include https://awarewomenartists.com/en/artiste/erika-vogt/

Erika advises all students pursuing the M.A. in Studio Practice (Hybrid) degree track. Is able to answer questions about the M.A. in Studio Practice (Hybrid)