Staff

Sam is the Art and Art Education Program Manager. Prior to joining TC in 2017, Sam worked in museum education and administration at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Memorial Art Gallery of Rochester. As a career art educator and arts administrator, Sam has taught studio art and art history courses in museums, classrooms and community settings for over a decade. She holds a B.S. in Art Education and an M.A. in Art History from Columbia University. Sam is also a practicing artist and currently teaches community ceramics classes near her home in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn.

Office: MY 444-F

Erin is the Art and Art Education Program Secretary and the voice of arted@tc.columbia.edu. Erin is a recent Bard College graduate who received her B.A. in the Interdisciplinary Study of Religion. Her Undergraduate thesis, ‘I Repel His Blows with a Bare Breast:’ The Attempted Conversion of an Early Modern Italian Jewish Woman, examines the epistolary relationship between poet, Sarra Copia Sulam, and Italian priest, Ansaldo Cebà. Outside of Teachers College, Erin volunteers and Interns at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and practices Italian language. Brought up in Midcoast, Maine, Erin continues her relationship with the coast by oyster shucking at pop-ups throughout Brooklyn.

Office: MY 444-G

Anna is the Academic Secretary and the voice behind the artofc@tc.columbia.edu email account. She holds a B.A. in Political Science from The University of Arizona and an M.A. in International and Comparative Education from TC.  Anna has been affiliated with the Art and Art Ed Program since January 2020, and she enjoys working and supporting graduate students, instructors, and faculty. Outside of TC, Anna enjoys exploring and visiting local bookstores in NYC and reading thriller novels. A native from Arizona, Anna is happy to also call New York City home.   

Office: MY 444-A

Carolina Rojas is a Colombian artist-educator and designer, who has lived and worked between Bogotá and New York. Her art and design work spans 18 years. She served as an Associate Professor (undergraduate and master’s) for nine years in the School of Design at Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá. Carolina is pursuing an Ed.D.CT. in Art and Art Education at Teachers College, where she teaches and is an Art Education Design Fellow. Carolina is a recipient of the Fulbright Doctoral Fellowship (2019). She previously earned an M.F.A. in Digital Arts from Pratt Institute, New York, and a Specialist Degree in Design and Television Production from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá. Carolina has a B.A. with a focus on Electronic Media and Time Arts from Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá. Carolina’s artwork ranges from analog and digital drawings to sculptural assemblages, and installations. Her artwork focuses on the dichotomy of life and death. Enchanted by Victorian collections of curiosities and the immortality of biological specimens, she developed an interest in working in the fields of nonhuman animals, their mortality, and conservation. Carolina’s current art practice and research connect art, education, and the natural sciences regarding human–nonhuman animal relationships. Her pedagogical and artistic productions have received recognition through collective and individual presentations and exhibitions. Currently, her work is part of Sketch Gallery. In addition, she has developed illustration, editorial, and graphic design projects for local and international agencies and institutions.

Jennifer is the Macy Gallery Coordinator and Fellow. She came into the Art and Art Education program as a doctoral student after earning her M.A. in Cognitive Science with a concentration in creativity, also from TC. She has a B.A. cum laude in English Literature from Boston University. Her prior professional experience was in publishing and advertising, as an editor and writer, followed by a stint as a freelance illustrator. Growing from her original research during her Masters, Jennifer contributed to several books on creativity scholarship. Her main research interest revolves around the dynamic systems we develop to think and to create – most often concentrating on the engagement between artist and material. Her own private art practice centers around her preferred medium – wool – in various forms. 

Larry Tung is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, journalist, and media educator in New York City. He teaches courses in media and communication in the Department of Performing and Fine Arts at York College/CUNY. A native of Taiwan, he holds an M.F.A. in Television Production from Brooklyn College and an M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University. His journalism career started in Taiwan where he worked as a political reporter for the English-language Taiwan News. He received several fellowships, including Vanderbilt University Media Fellowship, and the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Faculty Fellowship. Tung’s films focus on social justice and human rights issues and have screened in more than 70 film festivals around the world. In his free time, he enjoys movies, tennis, reading newspapers, and exploring new restaurants.

Kelly Cave is a working artist born and raised in Princeton Junction, New Jersey. She received her BFA from Syracuse University with a degree in Fiber and Material Studies with Minors in Sculpture and Visual Culture. She completed her MFA at the University of Cincinnati, in the sculpture department, and then served as Artist in Residence in Sculpture at Northwest Missouri State University. She has attended residencies and created public artworks at Salem Art Works, Franconia Sculpture Park, the Scottish Sculpture Workshop, The 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. Currently, Cave is a student at Teachers College Columbia University in pursuit of an EdDCT degree in Art and Art Education.

Joe Cimino is an Italian-American time-based media artist, musician, and adjunct professor, currently based in New York City. He is currently a doctoral student at Teachers College, Columbia University, and holds an MFA in studio art from Studio Arts College International (SACI), located in Florence, Italy, and a BFA in studio art from Rowan University. Cimino has exhibited his works in the United States and internationally, with solo and group exhibitions located in Florence, Italy, Gimpo, South Korea, Chelsea, New York City, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Gdansk, Poland. He is also a member of the international artist collective, Teleportal. 

Yihui (Cece) Jiao (she/her) is a multimedia artist and visual designer. She conveys her philosophical and psychological ideas mainly through drawings, animations and installations. She experiments with the combination of new media and traditional crafts. Her artistic practices thematically focus on mental status, self development, human cognition and visual culture.

She is originally from Shanghai, China and has been living in the United States for more than a decade. She has BA degrees in both Psychology and Studio Art from Indiana University Bloomington. She studied animation and received her post-baccalaureate certificate at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and completed her MFA degree in Computer Arts from School of Visual Arts in NYC. 

Presently, she is a doctoral student in Art and Art Education Ed.D.C.T program and hybrid studio fellow at Myers Media Art Studio and Thingspace Studio at Teachers College Columbia University.

Yujeong Hwang is a visual artist and educator from Seoul, currently based in New York City. She is pursuing an Ed.M. in Art & Art Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, where she is a Painting and Drawing Studio Fellow. She holds an MFA and BFA in Fine Arts (Painting) and Art History from South Korea.

Working across painting, sculpture, and mixed media, Yujeong explores personal narratives through rich textures and layered forms, using contemporary approaches to create dynamic compositions. Incorporating wood and layers of paper, she blurs the boundaries between painting and sculpture, as well as abstraction and representation. Believing in the expressive potential of everyday materials, she reshapes raw materials with paint finishes, creating three-dimensional abstract hard-edge paintings.

Yujeong is passionate about teaching and helping others explore creative expression. Her work has been exhibited internationally in galleries, private collections, and corporate spaces.

Neal Flynn is an artist, student, researcher, and art educator. In these integrated roles he is privileged to engage with ideas through inquiry, discourse, and art making in a variety of community contexts. Central to this engagement is his interest in activating creative fields, practices, sites, and tools to prioritize community-identified needs and initiate change. 

Neal’s creative approach often involves looking closely at familiar materials with a goal of better understanding his relationship to the people, places, networks, and histories they are part of. He has participated in group exhibitions in Maryland, New York, and California, and presented his first solo exhibition at the Dougherty Art Center in Austin, TX, in 2023. He is a current doctoral student in the Art & Art Education program at Teachers College, Columbia University. 

Filippa (she/her) is the STUDIO 447 fellow and a doctoral student in Museum Education with a concentration in Art & Art Education. Filippa’s work is situated in museum spaces and with a focus on anti-oppressive praxis and body based pedagogies that disrupt institutional violence.

Filippa is also a performance artist, with an interdisciplinary background and studies in Geology & Environment, a Master’s degree in Science & Technology Education, and diplomas in History of Art, Theatre, Theatre in Education, and Drama & Education.

As a museum educator Filippa has worked in different capacities in cultural institutions in five different countries, including the Saatchi Gallery, London National Maritime Museum, Chicago Art Institute, Whitney Museum, and National Archaeological Museum of Athens.

Filippa is the founder of The Drama Science Lab, a series of evolving projects that use the body as a medium to explore the boundaries between art and science.

Samantha (Sam) is a porcelain ceramicist that utilizes forms of sketching, painting, and fine line drawing into her delicate works. She found her passion for ceramics in 2017 while enrolled in a sculpture class at Suffolk County Community College. After graduating from community college in 2019, she enrolled at Stony Brook University as an English major with a minor in creative writing. Literary genres such as poetry, short stories, novels, and screenwriting all act as translatory vehicles for her writing. 

While exploring ceramics at a local art studio on Long Island during her undergraduate education, Sam began to integrate her curiosity for storytelling with the use of clay forms. 

Today, she pursues a graduate degree in art education at Teachers College, Columbia University. Sam is the acting fellow of the Teachers College ceramics studio where she continues to tell stories through her favorite protagonist yet. Clay. 

Carina D. Maye is an educator, researcher, and artist from Marietta, Georgia. She is a fourth-generation graduate of the Unsinkable Albany State University in Albany, Georgia, where she earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Art. She received a Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture at Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) in Atlanta, GA. While in her fifth year of college teaching, Carina completed a Master of Arts in Business Design and Arts Leadership at SCAD in Atlanta, GA. 

She is a Doctoral Candidate in the Art and Art Education Program at Teachers College (TC), Columbia University, New York, NY. Carina has served in various roles at TC, but currently, she advises incoming MA and Ed.M students in the Program. As a researcher, Carina Maye studies the intersections of art, race, culture, place, and memory.

Erika Vogt is a sculptor who lives and works in Jersey City, New Jersey.   Vogt’s sculptures have taken the form of installations and collaborative theatrical performances.   Vogt 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.  Their 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.  

Recent writings about their work include https://awarewomenartists.com/en/artiste/erika-vogt/

Erika advises all students pursuing the M.A. in Studio Practice (Hybrid) degree track. Is able to answer questions about the M.A. in Studio Practice (Hybrid)