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Lisa Baumwell
Visiting AssociAte Professor
B.S. Union College (Psychology); M.A. New York
University (Counseling and Guidance); Ph.D. New York
University (Developmental Psychology); Researcher.
Lisa Capone
Adjunct instructor
M.F.A. Sculpture Pratt Institute; B.F.A. and B.A.
Marymount College, New York and Chelsea School
of London, England.
Mary Elmer-Dewitt
Adjunct AssistAnt Professor
B.A., New York University; M.S., Pratt Institute;
Teaching artist with Studio in a School, grades K-5,
and photographer.
Shari Fischberg (Lederman)
Adjunct instructor
B.F.A. The School of The Museum of Fine Arts Boston/
Tufts University; M.F.A. Queens College; Education
Consultant; Curator.
Dahn Hiuni
Visiting Professor
B.F.A., University of Manitoba; M.F.A., Ph.D., Penn State
University. He is a multi-media, multidisciplinary artist,
whose work spans the fields of visual art, performance
art, theater, film and video, and scholarly writing. His
solo work has been presented at P.S. 122, Franklin
Furnace, Artists’ Space, Metro Pictures, Leslie-Lohman,
Thread Waxing Space, the Cleveland Performance Art
Festival, the Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, the
Art Gallery of Ontario, the Lancaster Museum of Art,
and is part of the permanent collection of the Walker
Art Center. He has taught studio art, art education, and
art history courses at Hofstra, SUNY Old Westbury, FIT,
Bucknell and Kutztown universities, and at the National
Theatre School of Canada. He has also worked as a
museum educator at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
and The Museum of Modern Art.Tonya Leslie
Visiting instructor
B.A, University of New York, New Paltz College; M.A.,
New York University; Ph.D. candidate at New York
University and a research fellow at the Metropolitan
Center for Urban Education. Her research interests
include urban education and literacy. She has worked
in all levels of children’s publishing and educational
program development and has been a member of
organizations such as Scholastic Inc., Girl Scouts of the
USA, Sesame Workshop, and the Schomburg Center for
Research and Black Culture. She is also the author of
several children’s books including True You: Sometimes I
feel Ugly and Other Truths About Growing Up, available
online through Dove’s Campaign for Real Beauty.Heather Lewis
AssociAte Professor
Ph.D., New York University; her research explores
the intersection between the history of urban
social movements and urban policy and politics in
housing, education, social welfare and the arts. Her
dissertation, “Protest, Place and Pedagogy: New
York City’s Community Control Movement and its
Aftermath, 1966–1996” is a study of the Northern civilrights movement and its aftermath through a study of
the community control movement in New York City’s
disenfranchised communities. She is currently working
on a book based on her dissertation.Josh Millis
Visiting instructor
B.F.A., Art History Minor, Tyler School of Art; M.F.A.,
The School of Art Institute of Chicago; has exhibited
in New York City and Europe; currently a teaching
artist for the Queens Museum of Art and the Studio-in-
a-School AssociationAmir Parsa
chAir
B.A., Princeton University; M. Phil (PhD./abd), Columbia
University; author of 13 literary books in English,
French, Persian, and Spanish including Erre, Divan,
and Drive-by Cannibalism in the Baroque Tradition;
leader and presenter at education conferences
nationally and internationally, most recently in Brazil,
Spain, Norway, and India; conceptual, performative,
and exhibitory works have appeared in group and solo
shows including at curated venues and events such
as the Dumbo Arts Festival, the Persian Arts Festival,
the Baroquissimo Festival in Mexico, and the Paris en
toutes lettres festival in France; former director of the
Alzheimer’s Project in The Museum of Modern Art’s
(MoMA) Department of Education; co-author of Meet
Me: Making Art Accessible to People with Dementia
(MoMA, 2009), formerly visiting associate professor
in Pratt Institute’s Department of Critical and Visual
Studies (2009–2011).