Brooklyn, NY

Education

2022-2023 MA MA in Art + Education- NYU Steinhardt

2020 BA           Bachelors in Cultural Media Studies with Honors- Eugene Lang, The New School

2020 BFA          Bachelors in Photography with Honors and Departmental Honors- Parsons, The New School

2018 BFA          Studied Abroad in Ahmedabad, India for two weeks– Parsons, The New School

Work Experience

Current Middle School Visual Arts Educator Certified K-12 for I.S. 303 Herbert Eisenberg, Brooklyn

Responsible for building out 3 year developed art curriculum centering on diversity, equity and inclusion

  • Run afterschool programming for middle school students that includes:

  • Art Club

  • Theatre Club

  • Photography Club

  • Help plan, facilitate and supervise student trips and activities

2023 Visionary Studio: Saturday Art Workshop at NYU focusing on Collective Care and Mutual Aid

  • Free and open art class session for 9-12 high school students in the greater NYC area

  • Ran course on Collective Care & Mutual Aid in NYC, where students engaged with community gardens in the LES

  • Connect current social justice issues with dynamic art-making practices and media

  • Exploring issues such as climate change, racism and white supremacy, gender identity and bias, economics and politics through visual artists who artistically approach these ideas

  • Collaborative teaching experience with partner teacher(s)

  • Challenging students to think outside of traditional artistic media and explore how artistic boundaries and influence can be stretched to include what has historically been excluded

2023 Served at Bard High School Early College, Lower East Side Campus

  • 9th- 12th grade photography, media literacy and print making courses

  • General education classes with integrated IEP’s

  • Working alongside partner teacher for a student display at Photoville centered on student voice and life experience

  • Participating in school wide “Community Day” that centers the needs of the school community in a critical artistic forum

Served at PS 295 The Walton Avenue School, Bronx 2018-2021

  • K-5 placement experience, Intercultural and multilingual community

  • International Baccalaureate World school programming

  • Class types: General Education, Self-Contained, English as a Second Language

City Year, Year of Service at JHS 123 in Soundview, Bronx

  • Magnet, STEAM and Community programming

  • Provide support and resources for local NYC DOE schools

  • Organize approval for and plan field trips to Bronx Botanical Gardens & Bronx Zoo

  • Social Emotional Learning programming

  • Relaunched school community garden with the students

  • Working towards targeting systemic inequities and bridging the equity gap

  • Small group literacy intervention

  • Communicated with guardians of the students to ensure proper educational and emotional support

  • Organized a Harry Potter book club enrichment for students

  • After-school clubs and activities for school and local community

  • In charge of social media and member experience

Research Assistant for Photographer Katherine Wolkoff

  • Properly scan, color correct and archive negatives

  •  Make test prints and prints to send out to professional contacts

  • Communication with gallery, HelloArtists

  • Help maintain website, organize contacts and email marketing when needed

Exhibitions

2023 Student Work Exhibited at Photoville

2021 Parsons BFA Photography Exhibition of the Class of 2020 at Kellen Gallery

2020 Virtual BFA Show

2020 Virtual BFA Parson’s Thesis Exhibition

2020                PhotoFeast, Parsons School of Design, NYC

2019               Tribeca Film Festival, “Our City, My Story”, NYC

2019                 PhotoFeast Film Festival, The New School, NYC

2018                 BFA Third Year Parsons Film Festival, The New School, NYC

2017                 Photofeast Parsons School of Design, NYC

 

Awards/Grants/Accomplishments

2020-2016       Dean’s List for Academic School Years

2020-2016       BFA Scholarship

2020-2016       Dean’s BFA Scholarship

2020 Elected Co–Valedictorian for Class of 2020 Parsons Photography

2020                Elected Class Representative for Class of 2020 Parsons Photography

2019                Elected Photofeast President

2019                 Finalist, in Tribeca Film Festival, “Our City, My Story”, NYC

 

Publications

2020                Artist Relief Gallery by BKC

2020-2017       Published in Photofeast’s Bi-Annual Zine

 

Bibliography

Variety, “Tribeca Film Institute Announces ‘Our City, My Story’ Finalists” by Dano Nissen. April, 2019.