OUR TEAM
Dr. Mahbobe Ghods is a printmaker, and researcher living and working in New York. She teaches lithography, etching, aquatint, and woodblock. Her most recent work combines many of these processes along with mono printing.
Mahbobe holds an Ed.D. in Art Education from Teachers College, an MFA, and a BA from Lehman College. Dr. Ghods has presented her research nationally and internationally: at CAA, NAEA, SIS, and INSEA and at the University of Heidelberg. She is the recipient of several fellowships, grants, and awards. Her research interest focuses on the transition and change in the arts with the advent of new media.
Mahbobe’s works are exhibited nationally and internationally, and her work is a part of many different collections. In 2021 her work was named “the best work on paper” at the Guild Hall Museum in East Hampton, New York. She has done special edition books, artist's books, and published illustrated books and zines. She participated and organized Haptix a collaborative exhibition with twelve international artists in 2022 at Macy Art Gallery. Her most recent exhibition was an ode to loss and memory brought about by the pandemic.
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.