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Theodora Skipitares
AssociAte Professor
M.F.A., New York University; A multi-media artist, whose
work has been exhibited and performed throughout
Europe, Asia, and South America, she has received
grants from the NEA, NYFA, UNIMA, and the Guggenheim
and Rockefeller Foundations, among others. Her play
Defenders of the Code was named one of the 10 Best
Plays by The New York Times. A Harlot’s Progress was
the winner of an American Theater Wing Design Award
for the 1999 Season. Two years ago, she was winner of
the Helen Merrill Award for Distinguished Playwriting.
Her production Iphigenia won two New York Innovative
Theater Awards last year. She travels frequently to India
to develop new projects and taught in the Pratt in South
Africa Program during the summer of 2008.
Amy Brook Snider
Professor
B.A., Queens College, City University of New; M.S.,
University of Wisconsin Madison; Ph.D., New York
University; chair, 1981–2010. Dr. Snider also works as
a consultant in arts education. Her approach to the
profession is exemplified by the range of her interests—
story telling, children’s picture books, self-taught
artists, and the integration of design in art education,
are but a few. She has lectured in the United States,
Canada, and Great Britain; designed educational
programs; published articles, conducted workshops,
curated exhibitions, organized panels and conferences,
collaborated with an architectural firm, and served on
the Board of a Charter School.
Aileen Wilson
AssociAte Professor
M.A., Chelsea School of Art, London; Ed.M. doctoral
student, Art/Art Education, Teacher’s College, Columbia
University, New York; she was accepted as a Fulbright
Specialist roster candidate 2010–2015. Recent projects
include Building Space with Words, a multimedia,
interactive installation with Anne-Laure Fayard, March
2009, NYU-Poly; conference presentations include From
Studio to Classroom: A Studio Class for Pre-Service
Teachers, NAEA, 2010; and a collaborative curatorial
project, “Neo-Nomads: What Travels With You?” at BRIC
Rotunda Gallery, January–February, 2011.
Pratt’s Saturday Art School classes