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We collaborate with creative professionals and artisans from around the world to lead our programs. Our experts include renowned practitioners in Art, Design, Architecture, Sculpture, Fashion, Cuisine, Performance, Graphic Design, Creative Direction, Bookmaking, Music, Textiles, and other disciplines.
Ruben Gallo bio Professor Literature Spain Spanish Mexico Mexican Culture Princeton Columbia Cornell Yale Freud

Rubén Gallo is the Walter S. Carpenter Jr. Professor in Language, Literature and Civilization of...

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Catherine Richards is an artist who studied architecture. She explores materials and perception...

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Terence Gower Bio Cuidad Moderna Mexico Video Film Drawing Sculpture Photography Faculty Siena Italy Artist Immersion Program

Terence Gower was born in British Columbia, Canada. He studied at Emily Carr College, spent the...

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Wilkinson is a multi-media artist based in Philadelphia PA. Recent honors include two appearances in the...

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David Carson Graphic Design Famous Designer Ray Gun Typography Faculty Siena Italy Artist Immersion Program

David Carson is one of the most famous and acclaimed graphic designers in history. Not only has he...

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Eva Zwalm is a Food stylist and chef who will teach you to cook exotic dishes.

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Thomas Hutton is a British-born artist and writer living in Italy and Greece. He received an MFA in Sculpture from Yale University in 2012...

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Kelli Anderson is a New York City artist, designer, animator, and tinkerer who pushes the limits of ordinary materials to...

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Nicolas Sage is a French painter and  architect. He now paints full-time, working with a gallery and teaching art.

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Nora Venturelli bio Argentina California artist University of Michigan painting professor

Nora Venturelli was born in Rosario, Argentina. She immigrated with her family to California...

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Peter Ahlberg is an award-winning designer, educator, and author and curator of Please Make This...

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Jemme Aldridge Creative Marketing Director Parsons School of Design Jemme studios Artist Immersion Program

Jemme Aldridge is a Creative Marketing Director, building influential brands of Style, through a 360 perspective...

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Leah Tinari bio Rhode Island RISD NYC painting artist aeger Sloan

Leah Tinari has a BFA in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). After graduation, she moved to New York City ...

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Jennaway Pearson Printmaker Book Artist Bio Corcoran Washington DC National Museum Faculty

Pearson is a printmaker, papermaker, and book artist.  She earned her Masters in Book Arts from the...

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Molly O’Donnell is an instructor in the Department of English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at James Madison University.

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David Hardy is an associate professor of graphic design at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, VA. His practice focuses on a multidisciplinary approach to design and technology...

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Joey Carducci Artist Bio Filmmaker Activism Instructor Film Video Photo Instructor Pratt Stone Welcome Mat California College NYC New York

Joey Carducci is a filmmaker, activist, and visiting instructor in the Film/Video Department at Pratt...

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Micaela de Vivero bio Installation Sculpture Fiber Artist Dennison University

Micaela de Vivero is an artist working in installation, sculpture, fiber arts and participatory projects...

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Anastassia Tetrel artist bio instructor painter illustrator enraver Moscow School Grenoble Amiens

Anastassia Tetrel is an artist: painter, illustrator, engraver, graduate of the Moscow School of Fine Arts (Master Fine Arts)

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Professor Andy Teirstein has been teaching at New York University since 1997, following teaching at...

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Nicholas Brinen Architect New York Virginia Rhode Island Parsons RISD Pratt

Nicholas Brinen is a Registered Architect in New York and Virginia with 18 years of experience...

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Harpreet Sareen bio scientist artist educator New York NYC

Harpreet Sareen is a scientist, artist and educator based in New York. His work is situated at the intersection...

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Formerly a journalist then a scriptwriter, Delphine loves playing with words but also images, and exploring the creative combinations between these two dimensions. READ MORE

Susan Sterner bio Photographer artist Washington DC professor George Washington Corcoran

Susan Sterner is a photographer and educator artist based in the Washington, D.C. area. In 2006 she...

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Jessica Ling Findley bio Artist Immersion Program

At age 16, Jessica Ling Findley left her landlocked, suburban birthplace, Omaha, Nebraska for her...

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Flynn Coleman is an international human rights attorney, a professor, an educator, an author, a public...

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Morgan Meis is a contributor at The New Yorker and the founder of Flux Factory, an arts collective/space in...

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Joanna Ahlberg is a writer and editor with fifteen years of experience developing and editing books for artists, museums, and art book publishers.

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Simon Arizpe is an award winning paper engineer and illustrator based in Brooklyn, NY. His pop-up...

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Sagarika Sundaram is a rug and textile designer for commercial and private collections. Sagarika's first two...

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Jessica Frelinghuysen sculpts objects and events to help negotiate social anxieties and continually seeks to...

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Christopher Mirto is a director, teacher, sometimes producer, and sometimes actor....

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Petra is a healing artist (reflexology, chakra yoga, essences) and dance theater performer, choreographer...

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Larry Groupé is one of the most talented and versatile composers working today in the...

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Mr. Counts is a Registered Architect with 20+ years of diverse experience, is licensed in the state of New York...

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Justin Phillips’ work explores meanings and nuances that are embedded in his formalist mixed media works where he incorporates elements of drawing, painting...

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Emily Canosa is adjunct faculty at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit and also assistant director of a...

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Louis Colan was born in Peru and is a painter and teacher based in New York city...

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Christine Moog is a book designer specializing in monographs and catalogues on art and architecture...

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Brenda Lopez Silva is a senior staff member in the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) Learning Sciences...

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Aaron Michael Thompson is a professional painter whose Paintings and Drawings have been exhibited in Samuel M. V. Hamilton Museum at The Pennsylvania academy...

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Molly Aubry is a visual artist whose work explores entangled perceptual worlds through the matrix of print media....
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Ruben Gallo bio Professor Literature Spain Spanish Mexico Mexican Culture Princeton Columbia Cornell Yale Freud

Sondra Graff came to design circuitously through the world of dance with an unanticipated stop at...

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Rod Cavazos bio type designer San Francisco

Rod Cavazos is a type designer and educator based in San Francisco. His work is guided by a profound...

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Chelsea Limbird is an architectural designer, artist, writer and educator based in New York City...

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