RICHARD JOCHUM
FACULTY COORDINATOR
Richard Jochum is a conceptual artist working in a broad variety of media with a strong focus on video, interactive installation, performance, and photography. He is a studio member at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts and an associate professor of art and art education at Teachers College, Columbia University. He has worked in various media since the late 1990s and has had 200 international exhibitions and screenings. Richard Jochum received his PhD from the University of Vienna (1997) and an MFA in sculpture and media art from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna (2001). His art practice is accompanied by publications and research in the field of cultural theory, new media, and contemporary art and he has been awarded several grants and prizes. One of his latest large scale art installations has been a 30,000 square feet collaborative video mapping project onto the Manhattan Bridge.
JAYMES DEC
INSTRUCTOR
Jaymes is the Tech Integrator and Fab Lab Administrator at the Marymount School of New York. Previously, Jaymes was the Program Manager at GreenFab, a program for students from the South Bronx that taught STEM skills through classes on sustainable design and green technologies. A piece of Dec history trivia, he also co-started a successful scavenger hunt company, cityHUNT. A graduate of the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at NYU, Jaymes has taught makers of all grade levels between kindergarten and graduate school.
Erika Vogt
Instructor & Doctoral Student
Erika Vogt is a sculptor who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Vogt’s sculptures have taken the form of installations and collaborative theatrical performances. She works materially across mediums including time. Past institutional solo exhibitions have included the New Museum in New York, the Hepworth Wakefield in West Yorkshire, and Triangle France in Marseille. Her work has been exhibited and screened at institutions including Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, MIT’s List Visual Arts Center, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Hammer Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Centre Pompidou, and REDCAT. Theatrical commissions include The Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2014 and Performa in New York City in 2015.
Bat-Ami Rivlin
INSTRUCTOR
Bat-Ami Rivlin is a NY based sculptor and educator. She holds an MFA from Columbia University, NY, and a BFA from SVA, NY. Recent notable exhibitions include: COLAPSO, Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Spain; EN-SITIO, Museo de la Ciudad, Mexico; whereabouts, Hessel Museum of Art; No Can Do (solo), M 2 3, New York; Untitled (inflatable house, zip ties, blower) (solo), A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn; Excess and Surplus, Sharp Projects, Copenhagen; Battleship Potemkin, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami; In Response: Leonard Cohen, The Jewish Museum, New York. Rivlin’s work was featured in publications such as Artforum, Bomb Magazine, Brooklyn Rail, Flash Art, Artnet, Office Magazine, and The Paris Review. She is the recipient of the Two Trees BSI fellowship, A.I.R. Gallery Fellowship, NADA House Studio fellowship, NYFA IAP fellowship, NARS Foundation Residency, among others. Rivlin is currently Chair of Programming at University Council of Art Education.
Han Seok (John) You
Instructor, Macy Gallery Consultant, MYERS FELLOW & DOCTORAL Candidate
Han Seok (John) You is a photographer born in South Korea and currently based in New York City. Raised in several locations throughout North America, he found an interest in the meaning of "home". His current studio-based research centers around identity formation and transformation to reconcile with his past in order to gain an understanding of the present, while inspiring him to learn more about himself and the world around him.
Han Seok (John) is currently a doctoral candidate at Columbia University Graduate School of Education, Teachers College, and holds an MFA in Photography from Rhode Island School of Design and a BFA in Photography & Video from the School of Visual Arts. While his passion and artistic talent lie in photography, Han Seok (John) is also an educator and has worked as a middle school teacher, teaching photography, and as a marketing strategist at an institution overseas. He currently works as a part-time faculty, Myers fellow, and gallery consultant for our program.
Magin Schantz
THINGSPACE FELLOW & DOCTORAL STUDENT
Magin Schantz is a community-based artist and educator living and working in Queens, New York. She holds a BFA in Drama from Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, and an MS in Art and Design Education from Pratt Institute. She has been creating multidisciplinary art in New York City since 1997, devising experimental theater projects with a variety of artists and companies internationally, and designing educational programming in public schools and community centers. In 2017 Schantz founded a small community art center and early childhood program called Supermoon, where she works with a team of artists and educators to strengthen community bonds through art-making and collaboration. Schantz is a student in the EdD program at Teachers College with a concentration in Community Engagement.
Joe Hille
Zankel Fellow & Masters Student
Joe Hille is a multimedia artist with his roots in photography and filmmaking. He has shown his work in the Macy Gallery at Teachers College and has worked to have his students work shown at the Currier Art Museum. Among a number of experiences working as an art educator, he has worked as a City Year Americorps member as a classroom teacher in 4th grade in Manchester, New Hampshire, taught filmmaking and photography to high school students at SOCAPA NYC and is currently co-teaching creative technologies to 3rd and 4th grade students at Teachers College Community School. Joe’s particular interests surround understanding how creative technologies such as stop-motion animation can be utilized as developers of critical thinking and critical literacy skills for elementary school students to begin thinking about and telling stories about the world around them.
Dave Sheinkopf
Instructor
David Sheinkopf is a creative technologist with a background in education and arts administration. His skill set and body of work is diverse-- designing and building custom electronics for the world’s biggest brands, developing curriculum for students (from age 9 to 60), and creating public programming at the intersection of arts and technology. In 2015, Sheinkopf co-founded Smooth Technology, an experiential production studio that designs, builds and implements specialized technology solutions. There, he has been responsible for carrying projects from conception to completion for clients ranging from multinational corporations (Cisco Systems, Google) to pop stars (Taylor Swift, Mariah Carey). Previously, Sheinkopf established and directed the education and technology departments at Pioneer Works, a Brooklyn-based arts and science nonprofit. Over his six year tenure, he managed a wide-range of artists, courses, students, teachers and curricula. He also created public programming and events that still occur annually, including a 3D-printed boat race (The Red Hook Regatta), a hackathon (Hack Red Hook), creative technology conference (Software for Artists Day), and an education collaboration with Google (Art x Code). David has also spent over a decade in the classroom, teaching at The Churchill School in Manhattan. There, he developed a curriculum for teaching analog and digital electronics to high school students, preparing them for life in an increasingly computerized world. He continues to teach VR and Physical Computing at Teachers College, Columbia University.
When not teaching, building, or programming, you can find David fixing bicycles, composing music, or barbecuing for his friends and family.
Deren Guler
INSTRUCTOR
Deren Guler is a researcher, designer, and educator based in New York. Designing accessible tools to help people re-imagine the world motivates her work. She has worked with universities, museums, and events internationally to organize and teach design and engineering workshops. She is the founder and CEO of Teknikio- a Brooklyn-based EdTech company that creates award-winning electronics and tools. She adjuncts in the Design and Technology department at Parsons School of Design and at Teachers College Columbia University, is a co-founder of the FatcatFablab makerspace, and author of Crafting Wearables: Blending Technology with Fashion.
Kelly Cave
THINGSPACE FELLOW & DOCTORAL STUDENT
Kelly Cave is a working artist and educator from Princeton Junction, New Jersey. She received her BFA from Syracuse University with a degree in Fiber and Material Studies and completed her MFA at the University of Cincinnati in the sculpture department. After which she served as Artist in Residence in sculpture at Northwest Missouri State University. Living in Philadelphia, she taught classes at Rowan University and Arcadia University, while acting as Sculpture Shop Technician at Princeton University. Cave has attended residencies and created public artworks at Salem Art Works, Franconia Sculpture Park, Scottish Sculpture Workshop, Gilbertsville Expressive Movement, and participated in the 2020 Nashua International Sculpture Symposium. In the spring of 2021 she completed a major public artwork in Glenside, PA as part of the Arcadia Public Art Project. These opportunities, in combination with her teaching experience, have been a catalyst for her interest in travel and desire to connect with people.
Qianyu Zhou
Hybrid Fellow & Doctoral Student
Qianyu Zhou is a mixed media artist, art educator, independent photographer, and collaborator original from China. Her artworks have been exhibited in Canada, China, and the United States in previous years. Qianyu is passionate about art and art education. She has three years of art teaching experience at Boston public schools and Tencent Education - the creative coding program. Qianyu is currently a doctoral student in the art and art education program concentrating on creative technologies at Teachers College, Columbia University.
Adela Lopez
Zankel Fellow & Masters Student
Adela Lopez (they/them/theirs) is an art educator from the Buford Highway corridor in Atlanta, Georgia. They have a B.F.A in Art Education from Georgia State University and are pursuing a M.A in the Art and Art Education program at Teachers College. Adela has taught in various settings including a museum, a preschool, public schools, community spaces, virtually, and even internationally as a Fulbright grantee in Taipei, Taiwan. Their interests in art education focus on differentiated instruction for English Language Learners, social emotional learning, and culturally relevant pedagogy. These areas of interests are deeply influenced from their own experiences as a first generation student coming from a Native Mexican (Nahua) household. Currently, Adela is co-teaching Creative Technologies as a Zankel Fellow for 3rd and 4th grade students.