Allison Valchuis is a sculptor and educator with over 15 years’ experience in community arts education …
Allison Valchuis is a sculptor and educator with over 15 years’ experience in community arts education. Allison joined the 92NY Art Center staff in 2010. She is a member of the 2015 Community Arts Education Leadership Institute through the National Guild for Community Arts Education. Prior to her 92NY career, Allison worked with the Smithsonian Institution’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum to help bring design-thinking to the classroom across the country through professional development programs for educators, teen programs, and curriculum development. She also served as an Americorps*VISTA at Rhode Island School of Design’s free teen portfolio prep and outreach program Project Open Door where she organized community partnerships and developed college readiness programs.
As an artist, her work explores process, material, weight, and balance through various ceramic practices, drawing, and a love of good craftsmanship. She received her BFA in ceramics from Rhode Island School of Design and has been awarded residencies and scholarships at RISD’s European Honors Program in Rome, Italy, Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts in Newcastle, ME, Ox-Bow, School of Arts and Artists Residencies in Saugatuck, MI, and Red Lodge Clay Center in Red Lodge, MT.
Maggie Larson is an artist and cartoonist living in New York City …
Maggie Larson is an artist and cartoonist living in New York City. She has been a cartoon contributor to The New Yorker since 2017. Maggie grew up in Portland Oregon, graduated from Bryn Mawr College just outside of Philadelphia, and gets much inspiration for her work from the cities she has called home as well as her own life. Maggie's work was recently featured as a part of the "Funny Ladies at The New Yorker Then and Now" exhibition at The Society of Illustrators in 2018. When she is not at her drawing table, Maggie works as the Associate Director of the 92nd Street Y Art Center.
Siena Faughnan is an educator, textile artist, and historian with 8 years of experience serving diverse communities in arts and education …
Siena Faughnan is an educator, textile artist, and historian with 8 years of experience serving diverse communities in arts and education. Prior to joining the 92NY Art Center, Siena worked at Midori & Friends bringing performances and cultural workshops to schools across New York City. She has also worked at Summit Public Schools where she designed curriculum and taught history with an emphasis on activism and creativity, as well as the Spanish Ministry of Education, The Longmont Museum, and the Massachusetts’ Attorney General’s Community Engagement Division. Siena holds a M.A. in Education from Pacific University and a B.A. in History from Colorado College.
As an artist, her practice is electic and experimental, integrating her love of knitting, quilts, color, and community. Siena believes that all people can be artists and is committed to fostering learning that is joyful and empowering in her role as Program Manager at the 92NY Art Center.
Will Hogue is a writer with 10 years of experience working in journalism, marketing, and art criticism …
Will Hogue is a writer with 10 years of experience working in journalism, marketing, and art criticism. Prior to joining the 92NY Art Center, Will worked in and around the arts at institutions such as the Guggenheim Museum, the American Museum of Natural History, and Metrograph. He has also worked from New York City as a remote reporter for his hometown newspaper in Cullman, Alabama. Will studied for his M.F.A. in the Art Writing and Criticism program at the School of Visual Arts, and holds a B.A. in Media, Culture, and the Arts from the King’s College.
In his role as Coordinator at the Art Center, Will ensures the success of classes and events, attends to patron needs, and assists faculty and staff. He uses his interest and admiration for art to help foster the positive creative spirit among the Art Center community.
Carla Aurich received an MFA from the University of Iowa with a focus in painting and printmaking. She has lived and worked in New York City since 1998. In addition to teaching at 92nd Street Y, she is an instructor of painting, drawing, printmaking and design at Yeshiva University, an instructor ...
Carla Aurich received an MFA from the University of Iowa with a focus in painting and printmaking. She has lived and worked in New York City since 1998. In addition to teaching at 92nd Street Y, she is an instructor of painting, drawing, printmaking and design at Yeshiva University, an instructor at the Abruzzi Mountain Workshop and has taught a summer program for the SUNY school system. She is a recipient of a NYA 9/11 grant, Pelzer-Lynch fellowship and a Who's Who among American Teachers and Educators. Carla's work is exhibited nationally and internationally including recent shows No Chromophobia, OK Harris Gallery, 2008, and Runnels Gallery at Eastern New Mexico University, 2009. For more information please visit her website at: carlaaurich.com
Collage and Mixed Media for Absolute Beginners
Watercolor Painting (Intermediate/Advanced)
Approaches to Abstraction with Watercolor for Beginners
Watercolor Painting (Beginner/Intermediate)
Watercolors for Absolute Beginners
Melanie Baker lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She attended Pratt Institute graduating in 1977 with a BFA and received her MFA from Stony Brook University in 2001. She has had solo exhibition ...
Melanie Baker lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She attended Pratt Institute graduating in 1977 with a BFA and received her MFA from Stony Brook University in 2001. She has had solo exhibitions at Cristin Tierney and Roebling Hall, among others, and group exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum, the Jersey City Museum, White Box, NYU Gallatin, the Nerman Museum, Platformart, Albany University and Weslyan University. She has received numerous awards and fellowships. She has twice been a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow, and in 2003 received the NYFA Prize, awarded across all disciplines. She is a Sacatar Foundation Fellow, in 2004 and 2022. She has attended many residencies including Art Omi, Yaddo, Djerrassi, the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, and LMCC’s Workspace Program. She is represented by Cristin Tierney Gallery.
Drawing for Beginners
Josh Bayer lives in Harlem and has worked as a Graphic Novelist, Fine Artist and Illustrator for twenty years. Josh is the editor of the anthology Suspect Device, and the author ...
Josh Bayer lives in Harlem and has worked as a Graphic Novelist, Fine Artist and Illustrator for twenty years. Josh is the editor of the anthology Suspect Device, and the author of Raw Power, RM, Black Star, Theth and its sequel, Theth Tomorrow Forever, an Ignatz award Nominee for Outstanding Graphic Novel of 2020. Additionally, he is the editor and writer of the All Time Comics imprint from Floating World Comics and Fantagraphics. His style is characterized by a genre fusion tying together different historical cartooning styles with a devout punk rock anti-narrative. His comics work was reprinted in the Best American Comics series in 2014 and 2017, selected from work across the country by editors Ben Katchor and Jonathan Letham. Bayer also has an extensive career producing conceptual art for a variety of TV and film productions for clients including MTV, HBO and Amnesty International. Josh earned an MFA in Illustration and Cartooning in 2009 and has been teaching professionally since 2007 at schools all over New York. In 2021 he was nominated for a Distinguished Teaching Award by a panel of his peers at Parsons University.
Pen, Ink and Beyond
Illustrating the Human Form
Comics & the Graphic Novel
Cartooning and Illustration for Beginners
Riva Blumenfeld received her M.A. from Hunter College, New York City, in 1984, and her B.A. from Washington University, St. Louis, in 1976. Blumenfeld leads tours and workshops at the Guggenheim Mu ...
Riva Blumenfeld received her M.A. from Hunter College, New York City, in 1984, and her B.A. from Washington University, St. Louis, in 1976. Blumenfeld leads tours and workshops at the Guggenheim Museum and the Museum of Modern Art for school groups K-12. She has taught at the Brooklyn Museum and the St. Louis Art Museum. Blumenfeld curated Totem, drawings by Tom Burckhardt at Tibor de Nagy Gallery, NY, which received an AICA award for best “emerging artist” exhibition, 2002. She served as a consultant to UNICEF and Binney & Smith, where she researched the viability of a Crayola sponsored children’s museum, which has since been built. She has guest lectured at the Print Club, Philadelphia, on contemporary prints and multiples, and at the Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, on collecting contemporary art. She organized seminars on contemporary printmaking and collecting for the Encino Print Workshop, and on realism in contemporary printmaking for Pasadena Prints. Blumenfeld is the New York Chapter Chair and a member of ArtTable, a national organization for women in leadership roles in the visual arts. She is also an active board member of Lower Eastside Printshop, a printmaking shop focused on teaching the craft to artists and school children in New York.
Contemporary Art Underground Tour: Times Square Subway & Grand Central Stations
The Venice Biennale Unveiled
Jaclyn Brown (b.1983) moved to NYC from Ontario, Canada. She received her BFA from Ontario College of Art and Desig ...
Jaclyn Brown (b.1983) moved to NYC from Ontario, Canada. She received her BFA from Ontario College of Art and Design (2006) and her MFA from the New York Academy of Art (2009). She has taught workshops at the Affordable Art Fair, FIAF and the Beam Center in Brooklyn.
She creates narrative paintings that often involve characters and animals. Her work has been exhibited in New York, Philadelphia and Connecticut. Recent shows include In the Boros at Denise Bibro Gallery in New York, Fiction/non-fiction at Storefront in Brooklyn and Take Home a Nude at Sotheby's. Jaclyn completed a two-month residency at KW Institute in Berlin (2008). In 2010 she received the award for best emerging artist in mixed media from GLAAD OUT Auction. During the summer of 2014 Jaclyn will travel and create during a month long residency at Jiwar in Barcelona. She currently lives and works in Bushwick.
Zen Browne is a painter and Philadelphia born artist. He attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and studied Painting & Drawing. Browne has lived in New York City for over 4 decades, and ...
Zen Browne is a painter and Philadelphia born artist. He attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and studied Painting & Drawing. Browne has lived in New York City for over 4 decades, and currently resides in the East Village.
Browne’s artwork is inspired by representational, allegorical, and symbolic narratives. Included are themes of portraiture, social, cultural, and spiritual narratives, as well as human identities. His art addresses contemporary subjects that affect the human condition.
Browne’s approach to his teaching process is focused in traditional painting and drawing practice and grounds students in structural knowledge of painting and drawing, composition and the elements of art, while freeing students to explore their imagination and unique vision within art.
Browne has exhibited his artwork in numerous galleries and educational institutions within the United States and abroad.
Teen Drawing and Painting
Getting Started with Watercolor
Oil Painting (Beginner/Intermediate)
Getting Started with Oil Painting
Laura’s career in art spans over 10 years. She studied at the School of Visual Arts of UTP in Pereira, Colombia, with a major in painting. After graduating, she built her experience teaching ...
Laura’s career in art spans over 10 years. She studied at the School of Visual Arts of UTP in Pereira, Colombia, with a major in painting. After graduating, she built her experience teaching Art and independently creating artwork. Born and raised in Cartago, COL, She moved to United States in 2018 and currently resides in Queens, New York, where explores textiles and works in various projects like OSCAM, a painting and embroidery atelier she founded along with her mother. Since 2022 she has worked with the Guggenheim Museum as Youth Educator and Teaching Artist. In her free time, she likes to experiment with film, photography and ceramics.
Susan Cottle is a painter who received her M.F.A. cum laude from The New York Academy of Art Graduate School of Figurative Art, and her B.F.A. from Montserrat College of Art. She is currently Part- ...
Susan Cottle is a painter who received her M.F.A. cum laude from The New York Academy of Art Graduate School of Figurative Art, and her B.F.A. from Montserrat College of Art. She is currently Part-time Assistant Professor of Art at New School University and Parsons School of Design. She has taught at The New York Academy of Art, St. John's University and various institutions in Italy, including Montserrat College of Art, Viterbo, St. John's University, Rome and Studio Art Centers International in Florence. In 2008, Susan was featured in a one-person exhibition at St. John's University Manhattan. Recent two-person and group exhibitions have included Synagogue for the Arts, The Painting Center SoHo, The Hudson Guild, Wyndham Fine Arts, and Island Weiss Gallery. In 2010, Susan was awarded an Artist Residency by the National Park Service, in the Petrified Forest, Arizona.
Painting with Gouache (All Levels)
Abstraction for Drawing and Painting
Figure and Portrait Drawing Combined
Portrait and Figure Painting (All Levels)
Carol Cutler currently teaches ceramics in the Art Center's afterschool program and in the 60+ Program of 92nd Street Y. In addition, she is director of Ceramics for the Y Camps at the Henry Ka ...
Carol Cutler currently teaches ceramics in the Art Center's afterschool program and in the 60+ Program of 92nd Street Y. In addition, she is director of Ceramics for the Y Camps at the Henry Kaufman Campgrounds, where she developed art programs for special-needs children. In conjunction with the American Craft Museum, Carol developed programs to bring art education in the NYC public schools. Carol has also taught art at the Trinity School Day Camp, the Calhoun School and the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church. Her work has been shown at the Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science, the Paley Design Center, Wallingford Community Art Center and Arteffects Gallery in Philadelphia. She received a BA degree from the University of Pennsylvania.
Lisa Daehlin is a knitting designer and opera chanteuse. Her project of #LovePeopleBeKind has as its goal bringing the world together in seemingly small ways (one heart at a time) that can grow mor ...
Lisa Daehlin is a knitting designer and opera chanteuse. Her project of #LovePeopleBeKind has as its goal bringing the world together in seemingly small ways (one heart at a time) that can grow more plentiful than any we can imagine. The expanding imagery of hearts, roots, and sinews finds its way into her body of work in the form of mandalas, circles, concentric imagery, emanating outward and onward through heart, thought, hands, materials, and tools. Lisa’s artistic identities as a singer and a stitch wielder often blend together in her performance of art song on the concert stage, in cabarets, and in windows of yarn shops. One such example, her OperaKnit Cabaret, rears its head in various incarnations. She free-lances for the fashion industry and retail design. Her designs can be seen walking the streets of Manhattan, gracing the pages of numerous publications, including: Interweave Knits, Knit.1, Knit Simple, and Vogue Knitting magazines as well as featured in Lace Style, Bag Style, and The New Tunisian Crochet books published by Interweave Press, and Vogue Knitting: Ultimate Hat Book and Vogue Knitting: Shawls and Wraps by Sixth and Spring Books. Over the past two decades, Lisa has taught at several venues including: 92NY, The Cooper Union, The Creative Center, Newark Museum, PS122 Gallery, Harlem Knitting Circle, University Settlement, Vogue Knitting LIVE, and the American Folk Art Museum in New York. lisadaehlin.wordpress.com
Crochet for Beginners
Knitting for Beginners
Anthony DiPaola is an American painter who lived in Germany for a decade and recently returned to New York where he lives and works. He holds a BFA and MFA in painting in addition to an MA in Philo ...
Anthony DiPaola is an American painter who lived in Germany for a decade and recently returned to New York where he lives and works. He holds a BFA and MFA in painting in addition to an MA in Philosophy. He has had international solo exhibitions, primarily in nonprofit spaces and various college and university galleries including the Ruhr-Universität (Bochum, Germany), Gudelsky Gallery (Maryland College of Art and Design), Harry Wood Gallery (Arizona State University) and was included in a group exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery (Washington DC).
In 2019 Anthony received a project grant for a large street art mural near the UN Campus in Germany highlighting their Sustainable Development Goals. In 2020 he received a stipend for artists awarded by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. His conceptually motivated artwork is a blend of abstract form, text based images and figurative references using various media including painting, work on paper, video and animation.
www.anthonydipaola.com
Acrylic Painting for Absolute Beginners
Contemporary Art Scene
Oil Painting for Absolute Beginners
Figure Drawing
Oil Painting (Intermediate/Advanced)
Drawing at The Met
Florencia Escudero received an MFA in Sculpture from the Yale University School of Art in 2012. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Her sculptures include soft and handmade components printe ...
Florencia Escudero received an MFA in Sculpture from the Yale University School of Art in 2012. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Her sculptures include soft and handmade components printed with digitally-rendered imagery. Feminist theory, cyberculture, and an embrace of various techniques such as digital photo collage, hand sewing, and silk-screening place each sculpture in the realm of both the machine-made and the handmade.
Her works have been exhibited at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT, Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, NY, and Petzel Gallery, New York, NY, among other venues.
Works by Escudero have been discussed in Editorial Magazine, Aether Magazine, The Art Newspaper, Hyperallergic, The American Reader, Cultured Magazine, and the Brooklyn Rail. She is an editor and founder of Precog Magazine.
Sewing & Dyeing Techniques for Upcycling Textiles
Dyeing and Mending Afternoon: Upcycling Clothing
DIY Fashion: Resist, Repurpose and Revitalize Intensive
Textile Dyeing Intensive
Victoria Febrer is a fine artist based in New York City. Her artwork has been exhibited in the United States, Spain, Belgi ...
Victoria Febrer is a fine artist based in New York City. Her artwork has been exhibited in the United States, Spain, Belgium, Ireland and Japan, with solo exhibitions in New York, Valencia and Madrid. Her interest in visual images centers around the relationship of the universal and the personal, and the way that repeated images and icons have influenced our understandings of our place in the world. She works in a variety of media including paint, film projection and red wine (through a process of her own invention called vinography).
As an educator, Victoria is committed to the vital role of visual art education as a force for lasting positive social change. She believes that a critical arts practice empowers us by helping us not only to explore and appreciate the world we live in, but also to share our unique discoveries and points of view with our communities. Victoria has taught courses and workshops for youth, children and families through various non-profit organizations in NYC, including the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Free Arts NYC, the Cooper Union Saturday Program and the Center for Arts Education. She has more than 10 years of experience helping students prepare portfolios for admission to competitive art & architecture programs. Victoria Febrer is a proud graduate of the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art and a 2015 recipient of the K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders of Higher Education Award.
Covenant House Crisis Center 20th Anniversary Mural, 2009. Acrylic and latex, 3 walls approx. 25 x 12ft., 45 x 12ft. & 20 x 12ft., Covenant House of New Jersey, Newark. Created through a series of artist-led workshops with homeless shelter residents and high school volunteers.
Untitled Marine Vista #168, 2011. acrylic on canvas, 36 x 46 in. President’s Award, State University of New York Research Foundation. Artwork installed at Sunwood Estate, Stony Brook University, New York.
Untitled Vigil #25, 2013. Red wine (vinography) on handmade Japanese paper. 12.6 x 14 in.
After maintaining a studio art-making practice in NYC for almost twenty years, Nicholas has devoted himself to comic-book making and teaching the visual language of comics. Working in every facet o ...
After maintaining a studio art-making practice in NYC for almost twenty years, Nicholas has devoted himself to comic-book making and teaching the visual language of comics. Working in every facet of art making, from Art Direction for brands like Marc Jacobs, Timex, Levi’s, and Warner Bros., to working in artist’s studios such as Takashi Murakami and Federico Solmi, Nicholas brings all he has learned to the format of visual storytelling in teaching comics. Nicholas published 12 comics in 2022 on a monthly basis, has been teaching in NYC for ten years, and is very excited to share that experience with 92NY.
Developing Children’s Books
Natalie Gaimari has been screenprinting professionally in specialty New York print studios for the past decade. She has a BFA in Printmaking from School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts Universi ...
Natalie Gaimari has been screenprinting professionally in specialty New York print studios for the past decade. She has a BFA in Printmaking from School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. She has recently moved on from commercial production to focus on educating screenprinters of all ages and experience levels. In addition to teaching at The 92nd Street Y, she mentors a screenprinting program at the Community Access Art Collective.
Screen Printing
Screenprint and Sew Your Own Tote Bag
Screen Printing for Teens Intensive
Omi Gray is a multi-faceted teaching artist, living in Harlem, New York. "I create because it is part of my DNA!"
Omi designs and teaches fashion trends through his jewelry and ...
Omi designs and teaches fashion trends through his jewelry and textile designs. Primarily, the materials she use are gifts found in nature. Throughout the tri-state area, she teaches a variety workshops such as Botanical Printing, Nuno Felting, and Free-form Weaving and Bead/Wire Crochet.
Omi's Harlem Design Studio is within walking distance from Central Park. You can be sure to find her in "Natures Art Studio," Central Park, collecting leaves and even weaving on her portable floor loom. "People are always fascinated when they see me gathering leaves; they ask 'what are going to do with them?' I show them pictures of my work and they are pleasantly surprised. When I'm weaving on my loom, in the park, I often invite people to sit, watch and try it out. I enjoy converting people to the Art of Creating."
Nuno Felt Art Scarf
Dyeing Fabric with Ice
Decoupage Objects
Dyeing Silk with Colorhue
Botanical Print Silk Scarf
Josh Green is a painter and art educator living in NYC. He received his MFA from Alfred-Dusseldorf Painting in New York/Germany. He completed the classical painting, drawing, and artistic anatomy p ...
Josh Green is a painter and art educator living in NYC. He received his MFA from Alfred-Dusseldorf Painting in New York/Germany. He completed the classical painting, drawing, and artistic anatomy programs at the Florence Academy of Art in Florence, Italy. In his painting practice he focuses on exploring consciousness through imagery. Josh’s paintings have been exhibited in New York, Germany, Texas, and California. He founded a virtual atelier of painting called Green Atelier and is the host of a podcast called The Painter’s Dialectic which discusses art and philosophy.
Figure Sculpture
Drawing & Painting from Your Imagination: Imaginative Realism (Intermediate/Advanced)
Artist Talk with Josh Green: Self-Realization through Artistic Expression
Painting and Drawing the Human Form: A Classical Approach
Artistic Anatomy for Visual Artists
Karen Haberberg has spent twelve years as a professional photographer documenting stories of human resilience: the memories of a Holocaust survivor, the daily life of a developmentally disabled you ...
Karen Haberberg has spent twelve years as a professional photographer documenting stories of human resilience: the memories of a Holocaust survivor, the daily life of a developmentally disabled young adult working on a farm and more recently, kids with rare genetic conditions. Karen’s parents lost their first child, Rafi, at age three to Tay–Sachs disease. The memory of the child who died so young is never far from the family’s collective consciousness and inspired the work on this project.
Karen is a New York City-based lifestyle and portrait photographer. In addition to her freelance work, Karen teaches at New York University, 92Y and the International Center of Photography (ICP). For nearly a decade, she served as the Director of Photography and Digital Media at the JCC in Manhattan. Karen has also curated numerous exhibitions and collaborated with well-known photographers such as Annie Leibovitz, Elliot Erwitt, Joyce Tenneson, Gillian Laub and Bruce Davidson, among others.
Her photography has been shown in numerous gallery exhibitions, magazines and newspapers including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Daily News, Huffington Post, Time Out NY, Daily Mail, Cosmopolitan, New York Family Magazine, Forbes and Fit Pregnancy. Her work was recently featured on ABC News and NY1.
Karen holds a BA from Brandeis University and MA in Art and Photography from the ICP. She lives in Manhattan with her husband and two children, Maya and Liam. For more information, visit www.karenhaberberg.com.
Street Photography
Donna Harkavy is a New York-based independent curator. She received her M.A. in Art History from Hunter College and her B.A. in English from Tufts University. She began her curatorial career at the ...
Donna Harkavy is a New York-based independent curator. She received her M.A. in Art History from Hunter College and her B.A. in English from Tufts University. She began her curatorial career at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and later worked as Exhibitions Coordinator at ICI in New York. From 1990-1995 Ms. Harkavy was Curator of Contemporary Art at the Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts, where she founded the contemporary art program. She is currently on the Board of Trustees of the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Foster Pride, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Projects and the Raoul Hague Foundation. In addition, she serves on the Museum Advisory Board of the Munson-Williams-Procter Arts Institute Museum of Art and the Education Advisory Committee at The Jewish Museum.
Bio coming soon.
Metalwork and Jewelry Intensive
Jewelry and Metalwork Intensive
Eric Hibit (born Rochester, NY) is a visual artist based in New York City. He attended the Corcoran College of Art + Design (BFA,1998) and Yale University School of Art (MFA, 2003). In New York, he ...
Eric Hibit (born Rochester, NY) is a visual artist based in New York City. He attended the Corcoran College of Art + Design (BFA,1998) and Yale University School of Art (MFA, 2003). In New York, he has exhibited at Morgan Lehman Gallery, Dinner Gallery, Deanna Evans Projects, My Pet Ram, One River School of Art + Design, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Underdonk Gallery, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Zurcher Studio, C24 Gallery, Anna Kustera Gallery, Max Protetch Gallery, and elsewhere. He has exhibited nationally at Weatherspoon Art Museum in Greensboro, NC, Adds Donna in Chicago, Curator’s Office in Washington, DC, Geoffrey Young Gallery in Great Barrington, MA, The Cape Cod Museum of Art, Satellite Contemporary in Las Vegas, NV, The University of Vermont, Bedford Gallery in Walnut Creek, CA and internationally in Sweden, France and Norway. His work has been covered by the Washington Post, The Village Voice, Hyperallergic, Newsweek, New York Times and New York Post. Hibit has taught studio art at Drexel University, The Cooper Union, Suffolk County Community College, 92NY, Tyler School of Art, NYU and Hunter College. Artist residencies include Terra Foundation in Giverny, France (2003), UNILEVER Residency in New York (2015), and Kingsbrae International Residency for the Arts (2019) and Green Olives Arts in Tetouan, Morocco (2019). Publications include Dear Hollywood Writers, with poet Geoffrey Young (Suzy Solidor Editions, 2017) and Paintings and Fables with Wayne Koestenbaum, a limited edition artist’s book (2017), and Color Theory for Dummies, published by Wiley (2022). He is currently Co-Director of Ortega y Gasset Projects, an artist-run gallery based in Brooklyn, where he has curated exhibitions since 2014.
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2D Design Fundamentals
Acrylic Painting (Intermediate)
Colored Pencils for Beginners
Amanda Hu is a mixed media artist specializing in printmaking, textile arts and book arts. She received her BA from Mount Holyoke College and her MFA in Printmaking from Rhode Island School Of Desi ...
Amanda Hu is a mixed media artist specializing in printmaking, textile arts and book arts. She received her BA from Mount Holyoke College and her MFA in Printmaking from Rhode Island School Of Design. Her works explore themes of examination, remembrance and family, but above all strive to create a space for contemplation of time. Amanda's work has been exhibited at David Krut Projects, Gowanus SHOWROOM, RISD Museum, Kyoto Seika University in Iwakura, Kyoto, Japan and Find & Form Space in Boston. Amanda Hu is a New York based artist and recently finished a residency at the Textile Arts Center in Brooklyn, NY. More information can be found at www.amandahu.com.
Wennie Huang, PSA, received her BFA in Painting from Pratt Institute in 1994 and her MFA in Printmaking from the University of Michigan in 1996. Huang also teaches at Parsons School of Design, Wave Hill, and the Pastel Society of America. She has over 20 years of experience in art education and h ...
Wennie Huang, PSA, received her BFA in Painting from Pratt Institute in 1994 and her MFA in Printmaking from the University of Michigan in 1996. Huang also teaches at Parsons School of Design, Wave Hill, and the Pastel Society of America. She has over 20 years of experience in art education and has taught a variety of children, teen and adult classes and workshops at 92Y since 2005. Her mixed media installations combine paper, wood, print, fabric and photography. Her work has been exhibited at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Wave Hill, Detroit Artists Market Biennial and in various NYC galleries. She has received grants from the National Endowment of the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the New School, private and public commissions including through NYC Percent for Art program, as well as residencies at the Lower East Side Printshop, Dieu Donne Papermill, Center for Book Arts and the Ragdale Foundation. She lives and works in Brooklyn.
Landscapes in Watercolor (Intermediate/Advanced)
Capturing Cape Cod
Figure Painting with Watercolor
Painting Portraits in Watercolor
Watercolor at Central Park: Plein Air on Location
Collage and Mixed Media (Intermediate)
Artist Books
Painting Seascapes with Watercolor
Watercolor in Old Manhattan: Plein Air on Location
Landscapes in Watercolor
Drawing with Perspective
Cityscapes in Watercolor
Scenes of Summer in Watercolor
Small Towns in Watercolor
Brooklyn in Watercolor: Plein Air on Location
Nancy Johnson received her BFA from the University of Massachusetts and her MFA from Yale University. While attending the University of Massachusetts, Nancy Johnson was awarded a grant from the For ...
Nancy Johnson received her BFA from the University of Massachusetts and her MFA from Yale University. While attending the University of Massachusetts, Nancy Johnson was awarded a grant from the Ford Foundation for her outstanding undergraduate work, and a Strathmore Paper Award for her excellence in drawing. After receiving her MFA degree, Nancy taught painting and drawing at several institutions including Mount Wachusett Community College, Westfield State College, and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. As an adjunct at the University of Massachusetts, Nancy participated in launching the first Summer Abroad Program in La Napoule, France and Brugge, Belgium where she and her colleagues instructed a group of 35 BFA students in painting and drawing. She has nearly 30 years of experience in art education and has taught adult classes and workshops at 92Y since 2002.
Nancy’s work ranges from paintings of the still life, and portrait to works based in the abstract expressionist tradition. Her work was exhibited as part of the Group Shows 4 Women Painters, at Anderson University, Posers and Rockers Show at the Brooklyn Artist Gym, and Metro 26 Show in Newark NJ, and in solo exhibitions at 510 Warren Street Gallery in Hudson, NY and The Bleecker Street Gallery in Manhattan. Her most recent paintings were shown in solo exhibitions at Wagner Gallery in Staten Island, and at Hampden Gallery in Amherst, MA. Nancy is a painter living and working on Staten Island, NY.
Portrait Painting
Portrait Drawing: Black & White to Color Pencil
Colored Pencils (Intermediate/Advanced)
Portrait Drawing with Colored Pencil
Still Life Drawing with Colored Pencils from Photographs
Painting Instructor, Melanie Kozol, received an MFA from the School of Visual Arts and a BA from Connecticut College. Kozol’s awards include an NEA Visual Arts Fellowship for Painting, a gran ...
Painting Instructor, Melanie Kozol, received an MFA from the School of Visual Arts and a BA from Connecticut College. Kozol’s awards include an NEA Visual Arts Fellowship for Painting, a grant to study drawing at the New York Studio School and the Bill Prize at Connecticut College. She has been awarded residencies at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, The Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, Ithaca, NY; Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Amherst, VA; and the Clipperton Project, North Sea, Scotland. Melanie’s work has been exhibited with Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, Weber Fine Arts, Project Room 88, Alexander Gallery and DFN. Recently her work has been shown at the Painting Center, bfpcreative, BRIC and the Lake George Courthouse Gallery. Her paintings are in numerous public and private collections including the Comptroller of the Currency, the Pfizer Corporation, Deutsche Bank, Bellagio Hotel and the Triomphe at the Iroquois Hotel. In addition to teaching at 92nd Street Y she is a professor in the Pre-College Division at Pratt Institute. She lives and works in Brooklyn. www.melaniekozol.com.
Originally from Colorado, Charlotte moved to New York to study illustration at the Pratt Institute. Her work is driven by color and more often than not, it is shadowed in a dark sense of humor. Mos ...
Originally from Colorado, Charlotte moved to New York to study illustration at the Pratt Institute. Her work is driven by color and more often than not, it is shadowed in a dark sense of humor. Most recently, Charlotte has become fascinated with printmaking, which has further enabled an intuitive approach in disentangling the unconscious.
Maggie Larson is an artist and cartoonist living in New York City. She has been a cartoon contributor to The New Yorker since 2017. Maggie grew up in Portland Oregon, graduated from Bryn M ...
Carol Grocki Lewis has been on the faculty at the 92nd Street Y since 1995. She earned her M.A. in Museum Studies and Art History from the Gallatin Division at New York University in 1992 and her B ...
Carol Grocki Lewis has been on the faculty at the 92nd Street Y since 1995. She earned her M.A. in Museum Studies and Art History from the Gallatin Division at New York University in 1992 and her B.S. in Art Education from SUNY College at Buffalo. She has been a teaching ceramic artist from 92nd Street Y at P.S. 37 (River East K-5) in East Harlem (An Empire State Partnership). In addition to teaching at 92Y, Lewis has taught ceramics and art at Earthworks, Marymount Manhattan College and various public and private schools. Her work was most recently included in an exhibit, History in the Making: Ceramic Traditions and Contemporary Pots in Rochester, NY and received an honorable mention from the juror, Ron Meyers. Her work has also been included in Strictly Functional Ceramics Exhibits.
Allison Maletz is a contemporary watercolor and mixed media artist. She received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and her MFA from the Slade School of Fine Art, London. She has taught ...
Allison Maletz is a contemporary watercolor and mixed media artist. She received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and her MFA from the Slade School of Fine Art, London. She has taught people from age 8-80 and currently leads painting, drawing, installation and professional practices for artists classes at Marymount Manhattan College and 3rd Ward. She has exhibited various mediums in the Liverpool Biennial, New Contemporaries UK, Zoo Art Italy, The Royal Watercolor Society in London and the Moscow Biennale for Young Artists at the MMoMA. Her watercolors will be on exhibit this summer at the Florence Griswold Museum.
California Bay Area artist Erin McCluskey Wheeler is known for her bright tropical-colored works that employ a meticulous assemblage of found papers often bound together with looping brushstrokes. ...
California Bay Area artist Erin McCluskey Wheeler is known for her bright tropical-colored works that employ a meticulous assemblage of found papers often bound together with looping brushstrokes. With both an abstract and graphic style, Wheeler's works are sometimes symbolic or whimsical, and play with ideas of nostalgia and visual memories in a narrative context. Erin both sources found materials and creates her own painted paper collage material to create densely layered paintings full of light and space.
Wheeler has a BA in studio art, and a BA in art history from Beloit College, and an MFA in writing from California College of the Arts. Her paintings have been licensed through West Elm and she has won multiple awards on Minted. She is the 2018-2019 Artist in Residence at the El Cerrito Recycling Center. Erin teaches art classes and workshops nationally and throughout the Bay Area. Find out more about her work through her website at erinmwheeler.com or follow her on Instagram @erinmwheeler.
Erin McGill was born and raised in New York. She received a BFA in Illustration from Pratt Institute, where she discovered her love for patterns and textures. Since 2004 she has had a small craft b ...
Erin McGill was born and raised in New York. She received a BFA in Illustration from Pratt Institute, where she discovered her love for patterns and textures. Since 2004 she has had a small craft business creating wearable art, toys, cards and decorative whimsical art based on her drawings. She is the author and illustrator of picture books including: I Do Not Like Al’s Hat, Matchy Matchy, If You Want A Friend In Washington and others. Since 2019 she has been teaching both children and adults various arts and crafts classes. In her free time she enjoys gardening, polar history, historical cooking and baking, swimming and travel.
Collage Still Life
DIY Printmaking
Eric Michelson, BFA SUNY Stonybrook; portrait and mural painter; commissions include Pierre Deux and the Plaza Hotel.
Katita Miller is a New York City-based artist who grew up primarily in Fort Worth, TX. She received a B.A. in Studio Art and Spanish from Wake Forest University in 2016 and earned her MFA from Hunter College in 2022. Her artwork attempts to visualize the disorienting effect that the incessant noi ...
Katita Miller is a New York City-based artist who grew up primarily in Fort Worth, TX. She received a B.A. in Studio Art and Spanish from Wake Forest University in 2016 and earned her MFA from Hunter College in 2022. Her artwork attempts to visualize the disorienting effect that the incessant noise of thoughts, emotions and memories can have on our perception of our immediate physical surroundings. The interior and landscape scenes in her paintings and drawings fluctuate between the mundane and the fantastical. Her work has been exhibited at Gallery 178 and 205 Hudson Gallery (New York, NY), PeepSpace (Tarrytown, NY), Artspace111 (Fort Worth, TX), stArt Gallery, Hanes Gallery and Sawtooth (Winston-Salem, NC).
Eva Nikolova is a Bulgarian‐born visual artist who works in drawing, painting, printmaking, hand‐drawn animation and cameraless photography. She holds a BFA in Painting/Printmaking from Southern Il ...
Eva Nikolova is a Bulgarian‐born visual artist who works in drawing, painting, printmaking, hand‐drawn animation and cameraless photography. She holds a BFA in Painting/Printmaking from Southern Illinois University and MFA in Printmaking from Indiana University, Bloomington. Her work, which is in the permanent collections of Temple University, The Amity Art Foundation, Manhattan Graphics Center, Arkansas State University and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, has been exhibited nationally as well as in Germany, England, Canada, Scotland and India. Nikolova is the recipient of over 20 scholarships, fellowships, grants and awards, and has participated in fully‐funded residencies at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Millay Colony, Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts, Vermont Studio Center, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.
Drawing with Pastel
Sheryl Oppenheim was raised in Orlando, Florida and currently lives and works in New York City. She is a painter who began to learn the craft of marbling after encountering marbled papers at her fi ...
Sheryl Oppenheim was raised in Orlando, Florida and currently lives and works in New York City. She is a painter who began to learn the craft of marbling after encountering marbled papers at her first job in New York, at a bookbinding supply house. Her books of marbled paper are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Watson Library, the New York Public Library, the Walker Art Center, the Kohler Art Library and the Brooklyn Museum. Her work has recently been exhibited at the Cranbrook Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Academy of Music and Small Editions, as well as galleries in New York, Los Angeles, Oakland and Paris. She received a BA from Brandeis University and an MFA from Temple University's Tyler School of Art.
Collage and Mixed Media (Beginner/Intermediate)
Paper Marbling
Paper Marbling: Suminagashi
Ann Paly is a professional jeweler with over 20 years experience. She works and resides in NYC and has a diverse and loyal following. She received a BFA from SUNY at Buffalo in Fine Arts and Elemen ...
Ann Paly is a professional jeweler with over 20 years experience. She works and resides in NYC and has a diverse and loyal following. She received a BFA from SUNY at Buffalo in Fine Arts and Elementary Education and honed her metalsmithing techniques at the 92nd Street Y, Studio Jewelers, Visual Arts, Parsons School of Design and Pratt. Ann began her career as an art director at several major advertising agencies before discovering her passion for jewelry making and design.
Jewelry II (Intermediate)
Jewelry Independent Study (Intermediate/Advanced)
Cheryl Paswater holds her Master of Fine Arts in Painting and Masters in Art History from the Pratt Institute. Her work is largely comprised of Paintings, Prints, Works on Paper, as well as works in Bookmaking, Sculpture, Projections and Installation Art.
Her work has been exhibited at ...
Her work has been exhibited at various galleries including the Pratt Institute, Artists Space, Cannonball Press, Select Art Fair, St. Josephs College, Harrison Center for the Arts, J.Martin Gallery, Nurture Art, Pierogi and the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art. She has also worked on collaborative projects and performances with Loteria Performing Arts, as well as having Public Art Installations in Upstate New York and Brooklyn.
Cheryl has also been an Artist in Residence at the Vermont Studio Center, Chashama Studio Residency in New York, Cooper Union, Women’s Studio Workshop, the Creative Center and has been in various publications including Studio Visit Magazine & Whitefish Review.
She works and lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Experimental Collage
Karin Persan of Better Than Jam is a hands on textile designer, fine art screen printer and painter, working from her showroom and studio in Brooklyn, NYC. She received her BFA in 2001 from the Sch ...
Karin Persan of Better Than Jam is a hands on textile designer, fine art screen printer and painter, working from her showroom and studio in Brooklyn, NYC. She received her BFA in 2001 from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she focused in Fiber and Material Studies as well as printmaking, ceramics, figure drawing and photography. Her continued education has been through travel, exploring while learning from such traditional artisans as weavers, dyers, and printers around the world. From around 2006 she has worked under the name “Better Than Jam” where she creates a line of clothing, accessories, homegoods, and artwork using her hand dyed and printed textiles. Her studio and teaching style center around and focus on creating works while being eco conscious and as low impact as possible. You can find her teaching at her home studio and around New York City as well as Peters Valley School of Craft.
Chelsey Pettyjohn is a multidisciplinary artist working primarily in paint, sculpture, and collage. Her work engages a specific collection of self-made archetypes and iconography. Themes reveal per ...
Chelsey Pettyjohn is a multidisciplinary artist working primarily in paint, sculpture, and collage. Her work engages a specific collection of self-made archetypes and iconography. Themes reveal personal history: childhood fantasies, fragmented dreams, the secrecy of inner worlds. She is interested in the juxtaposition of delicate and grotesque; articulating the human experience in all its innocence and brutality.
She holds a BFA from Parsons the New School for Design, and a BA from Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts. She has shown her work locally and internationally; exhibitions include solo shows at Hunter College and Tennis Elbow, as well as group shows at Kapp Kapp, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, and Foxy Production. She lives and works in Red Hook, Brooklyn.
Drawing Materials and Methods
The Art of Tarot: Drawing and Painting Magic
Drawing and Painting Intensive
Diana Rodgers is a fiber artist and sewing instructor living in the Bronx. She earned a BFA in fashion design from the Fashion Institute of Technology, then spent a decade as a designer in the fash ...
Diana Rodgers is a fiber artist and sewing instructor living in the Bronx. She earned a BFA in fashion design from the Fashion Institute of Technology, then spent a decade as a designer in the fashion industry. Next, she started her own brand and manufactured an evolving line of products which were sold locally, online, and wholesaled to MoMA Design Store, Uncommon Goods, and several boutiques around the country.
Diana has been teaching sewing to both children and adults since 2015. Her sewing classes range from beginner basics, to garments, bags, accessories, and quilts. Her goal is to help her students build a strong foundation of sewing skills and make awesome projects. Her personal work includes applique, soft sculpture, and embroidery.
Bernardo Rodriguez is a multifaceted artist whose journey from the Dominican Republic to the bustling streets of New York City has deeply influenced his creative narrative. His passion for crafting ...
Bernardo Rodriguez is a multifaceted artist whose journey from the Dominican Republic to the bustling streets of New York City has deeply influenced his creative narrative. His passion for crafting intricate, detailed illustrations and paintings seamlessly melds with his personal experiences, often culminating in depictions of the human experience, the intimate corners of New York, and poignant everyday moments.
A majority of Bernardo’s art gravitates towards portraits, capturing the essence of his subjects with unparalleled precision. His talent and dedication have led to international acclaim, with his illustrations gracing the pages of The New Yorker, The Marshall Project, and Italy’s Domus magazine.
In 2022, Bernardo achieved his MFA from the School of Visual Arts, an accomplishment underscored by his receipt of the Paula Rhodes Memorial Award for excellence in illustration. His distinction did not end there, as he was also chosen as the graduate speaker for the class of 2022, delivering his address at the iconic Radio City Music Hall.
Beyond academic achievements, Bernardo’s art has been recognized and embraced by galleries and museums worldwide. His works have adorned the walls of SVA’s Chelsea Gallery, Peekskill’s H-Art Gallery, 13 Frost Gallery in Brooklyn, and Syracuse University’s Gallery in Florence, Italy, where he immersed himself in the rich artistry of the city. Recently, his art found a proud place in the esteemed Long Island Museum, a testament to its significance and appeal.
Mindful Artmaking Evening: Connecting Breath and Creativity
Mindful Artmaking
Born in South Carolina, Brian Rutenberg has been based in New York City for the past twenty years. He received his BFA from the College of Charleston in 1987, and earned his MFA from the School of ...
Born in South Carolina, Brian Rutenberg has been based in New York City for the past twenty years. He received his BFA from the College of Charleston in 1987, and earned his MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York in 1989. Brian has been in over 100 exhibitions throughout North America and Europe, and he is included in numerous museum and corporate collections, including the Butler Institute of American Art, Yale University Gallery of Art, Arkansas Art Center, Morris Museum of Art, Springfield Museum of Art, and others. He is a Fulbright Scholar, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow, a Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Grantee, and has won many other awards. He is represented by Forum Gallery, New York & Los Angeles, Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, Toomey-Tourell Gallery, San Francisco and David Lusk Gallery, Memphis.
Zach Seeger is a painter and sculptor working in Brooklyn and upstate New York. He received his BFA from Binghamton University and MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. He has exhibited in th ...
Zach Seeger is a painter and sculptor working in Brooklyn and upstate New York. He received his BFA from Binghamton University and MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. He has exhibited in the stARTup Fair LA, Artspace Tetra in Fukoka, Japan and Life on Mars Gallery, Brooklyn. He has taught 3D Design, sculpture, painting, drawing and graphic design at Brown University, Berkeley College and Binghamton University. He is currently the director of This Friday or Next Friday gallery in DUMBO, Brooklyn.
www.zachseeger.com www.zachseegerstudio.com
Abstract Painting Studio and Critique (Intermediate/Advanced)
Watercolor Painting: Focus on Landscapes
James Sheehan studied art history and fine arts at U.C. Berkeley and pursued graduate work at the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, and in Rome, Italy. He moved to New York City in 1994. Recently, he has shown in various group exhibitions at the Haus der Kunst in Munich, Germany, The Contempor ...
James Sheehan studied art history and fine arts at U.C. Berkeley and pursued graduate work at the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, and in Rome, Italy. He moved to New York City in 1994. Recently, he has shown in various group exhibitions at the Haus der Kunst in Munich, Germany, The Contemporary Art Factory in Tokyo, Japan, and the Brooklyn Museum, Rotunda Gallery and Ronald Feldman Gallery in New York. His solo exhibitions include the M du B, F, H & G Gallery in Montreal, Québec and the Galerie Schedler in Zurich, Switzerland. In 2001, he spoke about his work with Mouhktar Kocache at the Whitney Museum of Art as part of a program entitled "I.P.O. New Artists, New Curators." His awards include the ARCUS residency in Japan, LMCC 'World Views' residency in 2000, The Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation and the Pollock-Krasner grant. His website is www.jamessheehanwork.com.
Michael Sherman is a painter, public artist and teacher. His work explores the line between figuration and abstraction, direct observation and memory, and often depicts the intersections between na ...
Michael Sherman is a painter, public artist and teacher. His work explores the line between figuration and abstraction, direct observation and memory, and often depicts the intersections between natural and man-made environments. For ten years he has taught watercolor, drawing and oil painting to students ranging from 14 to 92 years old. Michael trained at RISD (03), and has exhibited his landscape paintings and drawings at solo and two person shows in Basel, Switzerland, Los Angeles and New York. One of his public works is on permanent display at 125th Street and 5th Avenue. He’s currently a resident artist for the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council SUCASA program and a recipient of a LMCC Creative Learning Grant. He has been a resident artist at Cill Rialaig Arts Center, Ireland (2016), CHASHAMA’s Spaces Program, NYC (2011) and the National Academy Museum, NYC (2009), and a recipient of an Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation grant, Canada (2008).
Stephen Sherman is a New York based photographer, working primarily in New York and Paris, and his work documents the rapidly changing face of the urban landscape of both cities. The work revisits ...
Stephen Sherman is a New York based photographer, working primarily in New York and Paris, and his work documents the rapidly changing face of the urban landscape of both cities. The work revisits the ideas of Charles Marville and Eugene Atget in a sense, and attempts to capture a disappearing civilization and way of life, both in Paris and in New York. The pictures aim to neither glorify the old nor negate the new, but to be a counterweight to the forgetting of our ideas of neighborhood and place.
All of the work is long term and on-going.
The Arrondissements Project started in 2000 and covers all twenty arrondissements. In that fairly short period of time, the evolution of some of the arrondissements has seen the disappearance of one way of life, replaced by another that seems like a totally different species. Stephen's images have become a sort of architectural anthropology of certain neighborhoods.
The High Line Project began in 2006 and grew out of his familiarity with the Promenade Plante in Paris, where the same idea was put into being and was finished in 2000. Sherman started photographing the project before construction began, and has been photographing it since then. What had once been an area of quiet isolation and a certain feral splendor, has been reborn in a neighborhood that has undergone remarkably rapid transformation, even by New York standards.
The Draped New York pictures are simply the outward manifestation, the banners of change that are constantly going on around us. They let us know change is happening, but they conceal that change and we can't really know if we are witness to construction, destruction or just some plastic surgery.
Photographing NYC at Twilight
Photo Editing for Absolute Beginners
DSLR Camera Skills for Absolute Beginners
Photographing New York from the Waterfront
Digital Photography: Smart Phone Photography
Paul Shore received his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan and his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He has exhibited his work in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Boston and has taught at Williams College, Hartford Art School, Marlboro College and Penland School of Crafts. ...
Paul Shore received his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan and his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He has exhibited his work in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Boston and has taught at Williams College, Hartford Art School, Marlboro College and Penland School of Crafts. Art residency fellowships have included MacDowell Colony, Ragdale Foundation, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and Blue Mountain Center. In regards to teaching, Shore says, “in executing successful work head and hand must work together. I aim at developing both concurrently within each student. Conceptual development is nurtured along with technical and formal instruction. I dispel the notion of following “the right way” in favor of placing the emphasis on finding one’s way.”
Sok is a versatile multimedia artist specializing in the fusion of fine art and craft. He is continuously exploring ways to merge traditional paper folding techniques with other ...
Sok is a versatile multimedia artist specializing in the fusion of fine art and craft. He is continuously exploring ways to merge traditional paper folding techniques with other art forms, such as printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, collage, and painting, to create new and unique works. As a printmaker and ceramist, he works at CUNY Hunter College in the printshop and the pottery studio as well as the Manhattan Graphics Center. His art practice draws inspiration from his identity as a child of immigrants and his Korean heritage. Sok is an award-winning origami designer and the founder of Creased, Inc., a company focused on using origami and paper sculpture in advertising, graphic design, and installations. With a passion for folding that began in childhood, Sok has authored several books and periodicals including "Origami Chic: A Guide to Foldable Fashion" and "Crease + Fold: Innovative Origami Projects Anyone Can Make,” and Creased - Magazine for Paperfolders. Beyond his artistic endeavors, Sok shares his expertise by teaching at the American Museum of Natural History, MoMA, private and public schools, community centers and at conferences around the world. His work has been published in Vogue, Vanity Fair, L’Uomo, Pop, Marie Claire, Icon, Self, and GQ as well as in books published by Andrews McMeel Publishing, Firefly Books Ltd., and Quark Publishing. His artistic journey includes multiple fellowships at the Vermont Studio Center, the Center for Contemporary Printmaking, and a recent achievement of the Awesome Foundation Grant for his Origami Vending Machine project.
The Origami Vending Machine
Artist Talk with Sok Song: Beyond Tradition — The Intersection of Craft and Fine Art
Printmaking Techniques
Origami for Everyone!
Melissa Staiger is a Brooklyn, New York City based artist and curator. She has a Bachelor of Fine Art from Maryland Institute, College of Art and a Master of Fine Art from Pratt Institute. She is a ...
Melissa Staiger is a Brooklyn, New York City based artist and curator. She has a Bachelor of Fine Art from Maryland Institute, College of Art and a Master of Fine Art from Pratt Institute. She is an independent artist curator and has been teaching visual art in New York City since 2005.
Her work has been in group shows at ABC No Rio, Arts@Renaissance, The Bruce High Quality Foundation, Chashama, Denise Bibro Fine Art, Heliopolis Project, The Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, The Painting Center, Schema Projects, Sideshow Gallery, Trestle Gallery, Trestle Projects, Ventana 244 and the Wilmer Jennings Gallery. She was nominated and attended the Robert Rauschenberg Artist Residency in Captiva, Florida in 2013 and was selected to be the Curator-in-Residence for Trestle Gallery in 2016.
Bonnie Steinsnyder is an instructor in watercolor, oil painting and drawing. She currently teaches at the West Side YMCA, the Linden Tree School in Brooklyn, and as a guest instructor at the Art Students League. Past teaching includes PS 1 and the Queens Museum. Her BA is from Smith College, her ...
Bonnie Steinsnyder is an instructor in watercolor, oil painting and drawing. She currently teaches at the West Side YMCA, the Linden Tree School in Brooklyn, and as a guest instructor at the Art Students League. Past teaching includes PS 1 and the Queens Museum. Her BA is from Smith College, her MFA is from Queens College, plus she also studied anatomy and printmaking at the Art Students League in New York. Ms. Steinsnyder's solo exhibitions include the Loring Gallery in Sheffield, MA (2005), the Arsenal Gallery (2004) in Manhattan and Rittenhouse Fine Art in Philadelphia(2001). Group exhibits include Art Gotham (2006), Polonaise Gallery, Woodstock, VT (2005), Museum of the City of New York (2002), Mill Gallery, Sante Fe, NM (2001) and Gallery Henoch, Manhattan (1993-7). You can view her artwork at steinsnyder.com
Margot Terc is a zine maker and artist based in The Bronx, NY. Margot’s work is inspired by non-linear healing, and largely focuses on creative cycles, the process of becoming, and art-making ...
Margot Terc is a zine maker and artist based in The Bronx, NY. Margot’s work is inspired by non-linear healing, and largely focuses on creative cycles, the process of becoming, and art-making as instrumental for living a soulful life.
Margot produces zines, edits videos, and makes collages that get at her feels and never-ending quest to make this work for herself. Much of her work is meant to affirm her agenda of taking care of herself and her own as an act of resistance and love. Margot is also a tad bit obsessed with branches and paper. Astrology memes are therapy, and walks are her favorite kind of grounding.
Margot Terc has a Masters of Arts in Depth Psychology and Creativity.
Zines: DIY Magazines
Elizabeth Terhune received her MFA from Hunter College and her BA from Oberlin College. She received a Yaddo Fellowship in 1998. She has exhibited widely throughout the United States and recently had a one-person exhibition at the StandPipe Gallery in east Chelsea, NY. Her works are included in t ...
Elizabeth Terhune received her MFA from Hunter College and her BA from Oberlin College. She received a Yaddo Fellowship in 1998. She has exhibited widely throughout the United States and recently had a one-person exhibition at the StandPipe Gallery in east Chelsea, NY. Her works are included in the Pierogi Gallery Flat Files, Brooklyn, NY and in the Artists Registry at the Drawing Center in New York, NY. She is a regular contributor to Broadsided Press. To see her work online, visit her website.
Chris Wright received his BFA from the Pacific Northwest College of Art and his MFA from Pratt Institute. He has taught painting at Pratt Institute since 1999. Wright has taught with the Pratt in V ...
Chris Wright received his BFA from the Pacific Northwest College of Art and his MFA from Pratt Institute. He has taught painting at Pratt Institute since 1999. Wright has taught with the Pratt in Venice Summer Program, Montserrat College of Art, the New York Academy of Art and the 92nd Street Y among others. He has been awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, a MacDowell Fellowship and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in painting. He has had one person shows at the George Billis Gallery in New York City and Los Angeles, the Martin Art Gallery, Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania and the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in Queens, New York. His work has been included in exhibitions at Cal State Fullerton, and the Hampden Gallery, UMass Amherst. His work has appeared in the following publications: New American Paintings, New York Spaces Magazine and American Art Collector. Wright’s works on paper are included in the Pierogi Flat Files, New York City.
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