Hello! My name is Jocelyn Yang and I am an art educator currently teaching for Rubin Museum of Art’s PS 11 after school program. After years of working for art fairs and galleries, where I was serving mostly the top five percent of the population, I decided to change my career to become a museum […]
Hey CCNY Art Ed family! My name is Amanda During and I am in my final year — moving quite GLACIALLY towards my masters in art education. I have been teaching art for over 10 years — working mainly with preschool through elementary aged students — with a few high school classes here and there. […]
Hello! My name is Flo Gidez and I’m an artist and art educator currently working for BRIC, Studio In a School and DreamYard Project. I have worked as a teaching artist in all five boroughs with students in grades K-12, exploring everything from sewing to paper mache to Photoshop GIFs. My own art practice is […]
The Spring 2018 semester of City Art Lab is up and running! This year’s teams are working with the themes of Place/Space and Free To Be Me. These two teams of CCNY Art Ed Graduate Teaching Artists will lead the teens in critical art looking and making projects over the course of the semester. In […]
Hi! My name is Jackie Du and I’m an art educator currently teaching for Museum of Art and Design’s Arts Reach program and Creative Art Works’ afterschool classes. A student once asked me: “How important do you think art is?” I replied confidently: “It’s the most important thing you can do because it is what […]
The Inspiration: A year ago I was asked to come up with a lesson plan to explore art materials in unexpected ways. Few days
Greetings, my name is Vanessa Moore I am a CCNY grad student in my very last class of my grad student career. I am a Educator at the Friends HighLine Park. I am a Mother and Grand Mother. My latest title that I am proudly claiming is as a teaching artist in an East New […]
What got you interested in making art? I was interested in art as a way of making things, and I really liked stories, play, and action figures—all that kind of stuff. Drawing didn’t come easily to me when I was younger, so I always felt like, “Aw, I wish I could be an artist, but […]
Dr. Marit Dewhurst Art Education Program Director, Assistant Professor of Art and Museum Education Marit has coordinated arts education programs in museums, community centers, and detention centers, including developing the Museum of Modern Art’s free studio art program for teens. She received her BA from University of Michigan in Community Empowerment through the Arts, her Ed.M. […]
Hi, my name is Emma Mullins Zucker, and I am a grad student in the CCNY Art Education program. This is my sixth and final year here. I have been attending this amazing program since undergrad and have had an extremely enriching and positive experience during my time here at CCNY, but specifically a wonderful […]
