OUR TEAM
Jason Watson is a mixed-media artist and educator, whose studio practice combines interests in the figure, found objects, architecture, and text as visual materials that both reveal and conceal elusive layers of meaning. He received an MFA from Purchase College (SUNY) and is currently pursuing a Doctorate in Art Education at TC.
Watson’s exhibits at universities and non-profit galleries and is active in artist residencies, including the Newark Museum of Art, the Cooper Union Emerging Artist Residency Program, the Lower East Side Printshop, the Elsewhere Living Museum, and the Ragdale Foundation. He is an alumnus of the Lincoln Center Summer Education Forum and the Goodyear Artist Collaborative.
Watson was awarded the first Wesley Mancini Artist Residency at the McColl Center for Visual Art + Innovation in 2013. He has presented papers and projects at national academic conferences including “Creating in the Queer Diaspora”, a study of LGBTQ creative production in non-urban areas, and “Exploring Safe/Brave Space through Embodied Inquiry” at the Collaborative World Building Symposium in Vienna. As an art educator, Watson has taught a wide variety of drawing, painting, printmaking, and mixed media classes and workshops over the past two decades at community colleges and universities. He served as the Director of Visual Art Programs for Arts+, a non-profit in Charlotte, NC that provides art education to underserved populations. Watson is the co-editor of the upcoming publication “Turning Points: Responsive Pedagogies in Studio Art Education” with Dr. Richard Jochum and Dr. Judith M. Burton.
Jason Watson is a mixed-media artist and educator, whose studio practice combines interests in the figure, found objects, architecture, and text as visual materials that both reveal and conceal elusive layers of meaning. He received an MFA from Purchase College (SUNY) and is currently pursuing a Doctorate in Art Education at TC.
Watson’s exhibits at universities and non-profit galleries and is active in artist residencies, including the Newark Museum of Art, the Cooper Union Emerging Artist Residency Program, the Lower East Side Printshop, the Elsewhere Living Museum, and the Ragdale Foundation. He is an alumnus of the Lincoln Center Summer Education Forum and the Goodyear Artist Collaborative.
Watson was awarded the first Wesley Mancini Artist Residency at the McColl Center for Visual Art + Innovation in 2013. He has presented papers and projects at national academic conferences including “Creating in the Queer Diaspora”, a study of LGBTQ creative production in non-urban areas, and “Exploring Safe/Brave Space through Embodied Inquiry” at the Collaborative World Building Symposium in Vienna. As an art educator, Watson has taught a wide variety of drawing, painting, printmaking, and mixed media classes and workshops over the past two decades at community colleges and universities. He served as the Director of Visual Art Programs for Arts+, a non-profit in Charlotte, NC that provides art education to underserved populations. Watson is the co-editor of the upcoming publication “Turning Points: Responsive Pedagogies in Studio Art Education” with Dr. Richard Jochum and Dr. Judith M. Burton.
Aimee Ehrman is currently pursuing an Ed.D.C.T in Art Education and holds an Ed.M. from Teachers College. She has an 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 experiment with the material and considers 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.
Aimee Ehrman is currently pursuing an Ed.D.C.T in Art Education and holds an Ed.M. from Teachers College. She has an 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 experiment with the material and considers 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.
Stepanka Summer is a porcelain artist who blends art, design, and personal imageries from her childhood, inviting the viewer to take a deeper look at familiar encounters, as she transforms them into her own whimsical creations. For Summer it was love at first sight with porcelain, but there were many heartbreaks along the way, as the medium is notoriously difficult to work with. Summer relishes the unpredictability and excitement that firing up her porcelain pieces can bring. Originally from a medieval village in South Bohemia in the Czech Republic, she moved to New York City in 1995. In addition to her artwork, which can be found in galleries in the US and in private collections internationally, Stepanka Summer is a ceramic teacher at the Columbia University Teachers College.
Stepanka Summer is a porcelain artist who blends art, design, and personal imageries from her childhood, inviting the viewer to take a deeper look at familiar encounters, as she transforms them into her own whimsical creations. For Summer it was love at first sight with porcelain, but there were many heartbreaks along the way, as the medium is notoriously difficult to work with. Summer relishes the unpredictability and excitement that firing up her porcelain pieces can bring. Originally from a medieval village in South Bohemia in the Czech Republic, she moved to New York City in 1995. In addition to her artwork, which can be found in galleries in the US and in private collections internationally, Stepanka Summer is a ceramic teacher at the Columbia University Teachers College.
Thomas W. Lollar is an internationally renowned sculptor and professor of fine arts. Lollar was educated at Western Michigan University, where he earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in sculpture, ceramics, and art history. Lollar has taught ceramics and sculpture since 1975 and is currently an instructor at Teachers College - Columbia University. Lollar has received several top-tier honors in his field, including the post of visiting scholar at the American Academy in Rome. His work has been featured in gallery exhibitions nationwide. Lollar's work has been reviewed in The New York Times and other international art publications and is represented in a number of public, corporate, and private collections, including The Cooper Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York, and The Museum of Arts and Design, New York. Photo credit: F. Deschamps.
Thomas W. Lollar is an internationally renowned sculptor and professor of fine arts. Lollar was educated at Western Michigan University, where he earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in sculpture, ceramics, and art history. Lollar has taught ceramics and sculpture since 1975 and is currently an instructor at Teachers College - Columbia University. Lollar has received several top-tier honors in his field, including the post of visiting scholar at the American Academy in Rome. His work has been featured in gallery exhibitions nationwide. Lollar's work has been reviewed in The New York Times and other international art publications and is represented in a number of public, corporate, and private collections, including The Cooper Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York, and The Museum of Arts and Design, New York. Photo credit: F. Deschamps.