Art Education Faculty

FULL-TIME FACULTY | Art Education director, associate professor and practicing ceramicist, with 15 years of prior experience at Pennsylvania School for the Deaf and current leadership roles in the National and Pennsylvania Art Education Associations. In 2024, Stichter was the recipient of the Art Educator of the Year Award from the Council for Exceptional Children’s Division of Visual and Performing Arts Education.

FULL-TIME FACULTY | Art Education associate professor with previous experience teaching in and coordinating two MA programs at Teachers College Columbia University, overseeing artist residencies, teaching artists and grants in K–12 schools across New Jersey, and as an art teacher for students with disabilities from ages 3 to 21.

FULL-TIME FACULTY | Fine Arts program head and associate professor who has received awards such as the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, NYFA Artists Fellowship and Joan Mitchell MFA Grant. Her 2018 solo show at Tiger Strikes Asteroid NY, lost in translation, was named one of the “Top 15 Brooklyn Art Shows” of the year by Hyperallergic.

Director of Visual Arts, Dance and Theater for the School District of Philadelphia, recipient of the Lindback Award for Distinguished Educators and the Philadelphia Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. Community Torchbearer Award, and noted thought leader and advocate for equity in arts education.

Moore post-baccalaureate alum dedicated to fostering anti-oppressive and inclusive educational environments, with eight years of experience in public education as a visual and media arts teacher and as a deputy dean of special education.

Current art + art education doctoral student at Teachers College, Columbia University, who has been a West Bay View Fellow at Dieu Donné in Brooklyn, NY, a Leeway Art and Change grant recipient and the 2021 Linda Lee Alter Fellow for the DaVinci Art Alliance.

Community outreach coordinator at LearningSpring School, teaching artist with CO/LAB Theater Group and consultant in the areas of arts accessibility, education and disability.

Disabled and neurodivergent Korean-American art therapist and art educator who currently works with Asian Americans as a therapist at Mango Tree Counseling & Consulting and who serves as director of research at the Asian Americans with Disabilities Initiative.

PhD candidate in art history whose research focuses on queerness, Catholicism, and anti/colonialism in 20th and 21st-century Latin American/Latinx art, whose writing has appeared in Accomplice, Art & About PDX and the National Catholic Reporter.

Student teaching supervisor with years of experience teaching visual art in Philadelphia public schools, who also works with the Print Center Artists in Schools Program in Philadelphia public high schools and is a liaison for the Picasso Project, part of the Philadelphia Commission for Children and Youth.

Accomplished professional visual artist, art educator and emerging scholar with two decades of experience as an art educator; co-editor and contributor to the Curriculum and Pedagogy Group volume BIPOC Alliances: Building Communities and Curricula; and author of the book James Baldwin: Novelist and Critic.

Artist with specialties in drawing and painting, and the first art educator to achieve National Board Certification in the School District of Philadelphia in 2005, with several awards from the National and Pennsylvania Art Education Associations.

Moore MA in Art Education alum who has taught art in nonprofit and elementary school settings in Philadelphia, presented work on art assessment at multiple statewide conferences, and who has run professional development workshops on art assessment for teachers in PA and NJ.

Moore Art Education BFA alum who holds teaching certificates for Art K–12 and Special Education PK-8 along with an Autism Endorsement, has taught art to all grade levels K–12 and who currently teaches ELA, math, science and social studies to middle school students on the autism spectrum.