Dr. Marit Dewhurst
Art Education Program Director, Associate 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. in Harvard University’s Arts in Education program, and her Ed.D. in Communities, Culture, and Education at Harvard University. Her interests include social justice art education, community-based arts, youth empowerment and culturally-relevant teaching in the arts. She is the author of Social Justice Art: A Framework for Activist Art Pedagogy.
Email: mdewhurst@ccny.cuny.edu
Website: maritdewhurst.com
Jeff Hopkins
Adjunct Lecturer
Jeff Hopkins is a storyteller, educator, and children’s book illustrator. He is the creator and host of the popular Guggenheim Museum web series “Sketch with Jeff”, which has appeared for three seasons as a segment on the PBS children’s television show Camp TV.
For nearly two decades, Jeff has been a Teaching Artist for New York City arts institutions including the Jewish Museum, Guggenheim Museum, American Ballet Theatre, ArtsConnection, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Art Education at The City College of New York, and has previously taught at NYU and Tufts University.
Jeff has performed his “Pictures Come to Life” live drawing/storytelling shows at arts institutions all over the country including The Barnes Foundation, The Museum of Fine Arts Boston, The Delaware Art Museum, the Museum of Arts and Design, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and the Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston).
He has created illustrations for nearly two-dozen early reader books for children, including the 2004 award-winning picture book The Only One Club (Flashlight Press).
Jeff holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and a Masters in Education from Harvard University.
Website: www.jeffhopkinsdraws.com
Jacqueline Du
Adjunct Lecturer
Jacqueline Du has been an Art Educator in New York City for over a decade working with young people to strengthen individual confidence, deepen community care, and cultivate joy through the practice of art-making. She has previously held positions at New Museum, Whitney Museum, Brooklyn Museum, The Museum of Arts & Design, and The Museum of Natural History; as well as various non-profits including: Arts in Action Visual Arts Program, Young New Yorkers, and DreamYard Project. Jacqueline has published writing in Museums and Public Art and The Museum Scholar. She received a 2024 Fund for Teachers Fellowship to study fiber arts in Vietnam. Jacqueline is an Adjunct Lecturer at CCNY, and the Visual Arts Teacher at Stephen Decatur Magnet School of Leadership, Exploration, and the Arts in Brooklyn. Jacqueline holds an M.A. in Art Education from the City College of New York, and a B.F.A. in Visual Arts from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University.
Irin Mahaparn
Adjunct Lecturer
Irin Mahaparn (she/her) is a museum educator and artist with 10 years of experience developing and overseeing programs for school, educator, and family audiences at museums in New York and California. She is currently the Manager of School and Teacher Programs at the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) where she strives to create inspiring, inclusive, and empowering encounters with art for students, teachers, and visitors of all ages.
Irin holds an MA in Art History and Art Museum Education from the City College of New York and a BFA in Drawing and Painting from the Laguna College of Art and Design. She was born in Thailand, raised in California, and is based in Brooklyn.
Pedro Felipe Vintimilla
Adjunct Lecturer
Pedro Felipe Vintimilla anchors his practice in art making, art education, and culture care. Born in Ecuador and based in Queens, he centers material experimentation – papermaking, weaving, and digital imagery – to reflect on identity and immigration. His work has recently been exhibited at the Queens Museum – New York, Museo de Arte de Nogales – Mexico, and Casa del Artista – Ecuador.
Since 2018, he has consulted for the Ecuadorian American Cultural Center -EACC- developing art education and cultural programs, including a video series documenting stories of Ecuadorian immigrats in the 1960s, 70s and 80s.
Pedro Felipe is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art Education at City College – CUNY, and of Studio Art at Norwalk Community College – CT. His teaching practice aims for a fruitful learning environment through sensibility, exploration, ingenuity, and collaboration. Participants explore their strengths and gradually expand into a community of creatives.
Marissa Gutierrez-Vicario
Adjunct Lecturer
Marissa (she/her) is a committed human rights and peace-building artivist, educator, and advocate for youth, based in New York City. Marissa launched Art and Resistance Through Education (ARTE), a non-profit organization in 2013 to help young people amplify their voices and organize for human rights change in their communities through the visual arts.
Marissa is formerly an Artist-in-Residence at the Initiative for a Just Society at the Center for Contemporary Critical Thought at Columbia University.
Marissa holds a B.A. in Political Science and International Relations, from the University of Southern California, an M.P.A. from the Wagner School of Public Service at New York University, and an M.Ed. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education in Art Education. She is currently a Doctoral Fellow and Part-Time Instructor in the Art Education department at Teachers College at Columbia University.
For more information on Marissa, please visit: www.artejustice.org/marissa.
Aliza Greenberg
Adjunct Lecturer
Aliza Greenberg is the Arts Enrichment Coordinator at the Learning Spring School, a school for students on the autism spectrum, where she teaches the arts and coordinates cultural partnerships. Aliza is also the Project Leader for Supporting Transitions with the Museum, Arts and Culture Access Consortium (MAC), a project to increase cultural opportunities for adults with autism and other developmental and intellectual disabilities. She is also a teaching artist with CO/LAB Theater Group and a consultant who has consulted with cultural organizations including Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc., Trusty Sidekick Theater Company, Atlantic Theater Company, and the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum. She also serves as co-chair of Continuing the Conversation, an alumni led network of the Arts in Education program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Previously, Aliza was a Program Manager at the Metropolitan Opera Guild and Education Program Manager at Roundabout Theatre Company. B.A., Bryn Mawr College; Ed.M., Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Website: www.alizagreenberg.com
Moriah Carlson
Adjunct Lecturer
Moriah Carlson is the Director of In School Programs and Partnerships at The Dreamyard Project, a Bronx-based social justice arts education organization. During her 13+ years as an artist and educator, Moriah taught visual art through a social justice lens to grades K-12.
Most recently, Moriah entered a partnership with NYC’s Department of Education and 10 Bronx partner schools to actively create anti-racist curricula, policies and procedures to undergird and transform school communities. In addition to her work as an educator, Moriah co-founded and was head textile and clothing designer for her sustainable fashion label, Feral Childe. Moriah and her design partner, Alice Wu, presented their work in diverse venues such as MAK Center/Schindler House, High Desert Test Sites, Santa Fe Art Institute, Parrish Art Museum, SCOPE Art Fair, and as faraway as Japan, Denmark, Qatar, and Canada. Feral Childe was sold in independent boutiques throughout North America, Europe and Asia. As an extension of her work as an artist and designer, Moriah developed the Fashion program at DreamYard where teens investigate and create sustainable fashion and fashion-as-activism. Education: New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, and sculpture, B.A. from Wellesley College (magna cum laude).
Anne Feng
Program Advisor
Anne is a recent graduate from Pratt Institute, where she earned her BFA and MA in Art Education with a concentration in Drawing. Through her years of study, Anne has developed a working pedagogy of grounding all actions in kindness, leading to empathy and honest communication with others. As such, she is thrilled to be joining the Art Ed family at City College and to support other artist educators in their studies of the field. She is interested in research on cross-cultural connections, particularly in the context and overlaps of language, art, and education.