Faculty
Angel Abreu
Artist, writer and educator who studied philosophy, art history and comparative literature at the University of Pennsylvania and New York University. Website.
Haseeb Ahmed
Haseeb Ahmed (b. 1985, US) is a research-based artist living and working in Brussels, Belgium. He produces objects, site-specific installations, films, and writes for various publications. Website.
Jeremy Cohan
Dr. Jeremy Cohan is a sociologist who works on critical social theory, political economy, psychoanalysis, US education, and social movements.
Deanna Evans
Deanna Evans is an art curator and dealer who runs Deanna Evans Projects in New York City. Website.
Lia Gangitano
In 2001, Lia Gangitano founded PARTICIPANT INC, a not-for-profit art space. Website.
Beatrice Glow
Beatrice Glow is an interdisciplinary artist leveraging participatory performance, painting, experiential technology collaborations, olfactory art and sculptural installations to shift dominant narratives. Website.
Thyrza Nichols Goodeve
Thyrza Nichols Goodeve, PhD, is an art writer and hobby cartoodlist who writes “with” rather than “on” contemporary art and artists. Website.
Allison Hewitt Ward
Allison Hewitt Ward is an art critic working in the unfinished project of modernity. She is a founding editor of Caesura and her work has appeared in Even Magazine, the Brooklyn Rail, and the New York Review of Architecture. Website.
Miatta Kawinzi
Miatta Kawinzi is a multi-disciplinary artist and writer of Liberian and Kenyan heritage. Her work explores cultural hybridity, diasporic temporalities, and the re-imagining of internal and external landscapes. Website.
Iviva Olenick
Iviva Olenick is a Brooklyn-based artist and educator. She translates family and historic myths into beaded, embroidered, dyed and painted textiles intersecting poetry and portraiture. Website.
Phil Rabovsky
Born in Moscow and raised in rust belt Upstate New York, Phil Rabovsky (b. 1987) thinks of his practice as "observational paintings of the contemporary netherworld." Website.
David Ross, Chair
David A. Ross, Chair, is an art museum professional and educator. His fifty-year career includes directorships at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, the Whitney Museum of American Art and at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Heather Schatz
Heather Schatz is an artist, educator, and proponent of Artist Thinking. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Master of Fine Arts from Columbia University's School of the Arts.
Sarah G. Sharp
Sarah G. Sharp holds an MFA and an MA in Modern and Contemporary Art, Criticism and Theory from Purchase College, SUNY. Website.
Jacquelyn Strycker
Jacquelyn Strycker is a Brooklyn-based artist working the boundaries of painting, drawing, printmaking and textiles to make collages and soft sculptures that explore concepts of home, play, reality, and authenticity. Website.
Keioui Keijuan Thomas
Keioui Keijaun Thomas creates live performance and multimedia installations that address blackness outside of a codependent, binary structure of existence. Her work investigates the histories, symbols, and images that construct notions of Black identity within black personhood. Website.
Gustavo Aguilar and Gaelyn Aguilar AKA Tug Collective
TUG Collective braids together creativity (making of art), critique (critical reflection), and citizenship (connection to community) through interdisciplinary art practice. Website.
Xavier Acarín Wieland
Xavier Acarín Wieland is a curator working at the intersection of performance, architecture, and art. His projects have addressed issues related to object performativity, material culture, precarity and globalization, architecture and dance histories, and radical thought.
Nicolas Touron
Nicolas Touron is a storyteller. Born in France, he graduated from the Gerrit Rietvelt Academy in Amsterdam before coming to the USA with a Fulbright grant to complete an MFA at School of Visual Art. Website.
Andrew Woolbright
Andrew Paul Woolbright lives in Brooklyn, NY and is an MFA graduate from the Rhode Island School of Design. Website.
Stefan Saffer
Argued with local farmers about Joseph Beuys in my childhood village. Illegally installed artworks at the German pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 1995 with friends (during opening hours). Website.
Katya Grokhovsky
Katya Grokhovsky is a Ukrainian born artist, educator and Founding Director of The Immigrant Artist Biennial. Website.
Robin Cembalest
Respected journalist, influential Instagrammer, and the former longtime editor of ARTnews, Robin Cembalest specializes in professional training and career development. Website.
