158 TEACHERs COLLEGE COLUmbIA UNIvERsITy
biographies
of external representations as an interactive tool for
thought.
Aaron Kozbelt (PhD, University of Chicago,
2002) is Professor of Psychology at Brooklyn Col-
lege and The Graduate Center of the City Univer-
sity of New York. His research foci lie mainly at the
intersection of creativity and cognition in the arts,
particularly on the nature of the creative process,
the psychological basis of skilled artistic drawing,
and explaining variability in the lifespan creativity
trajectories of eminent creators. He is the author
of approximately 50 journal articles or book chap-
ters on these and other topics and serves on several
editorial boards. He has been the recipient of the
American Psychological Association Division 10
Daniel Berlyne Award for Creativity Research and
the International Association of Empirical Aes-
thetics Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten Award for
Creativity Research; some of his current research
is funded by the National Science Foundation. His
research on drawing and visual art aims to identify
perceptual and cognitive differences between artists
and non-artists, to empirically disentangle compet-
ing psychological explanations for drawing skill,
and to develop a descriptive and predictive model of
the creative process in visual art. He has also been
a practicing visual artist for more than 20 years,
exhibiting work in the United States and Europe.
Jeesoo Lee, a New York-based artist, bases her
work on psychological states of being (including
fear of water, suffocation, emptiness and libera-
tion) and redefines them through the physicality of
her material. The deconstruction/construction of
her imagery investigates the search for enlighten-
ment and reason. Her use of contrasting mediums
(thread, color, line) continues this investigation
while exploring the tensions of abstract painting
with her current contemporary practices. Ms. Lee
received a BFA from Sungshin Women’s University,
Seoul, Korea and a MFA from State University of
New York, New Paltz, NY. Solo exhibitions include
Oregon State University gallery,OR, 2010, C3 Gal-
lery, New York, NY and Purchase College, NY in
addition to two-person show at Amy Simon Fine
Art, CT 2010. Her work was been written about
in The Chronogram and The New York Times.
Selected exhibitions include: Invitational Exhibi-
tion of Visual Arts at the American Academy of
Arts and Letters, New York, N, Michael Steinberg
Fine Arts, New York, NY, Dieu Donne, New York,
NY, Garrison Arts Center, Garrison, NY, Tiberino
Museum of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
and the Museum of the National Library of Spain,
Madrid, Spain. She is an awardee for the prestigious
award such as Thayer Fellowship/Patricia Kerr Ross
Award and nominee for the American Academy
of Arts and Letters Award and the Louis Comfort
Tiffany Award. She is also going to Umbria, Italy in
next summer 2012 as a fellow of Civitella Ranieri
Foundation.Ian Murray Mc Innes is Senior Lecturer in
Design at Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh and
has worked successfully as knitwear and knitted
textile designer in Milan, London and Scotland.
His research interest is in drawing origination for
and through the weft knitted fabric and the cre-
ative application of digital technologies in their
manufacture. He has designed a portfolio of suc-
cessful degree and postgraduate courses across
Fashion and Textile design disciplines and is sought
by prestigious academic institutions as academic
advisor and as external examiner in the UK, India,
Dubai, Finland, Iceland and Mauritius. Appointed
to the Scottish Academy of Fashion project team,
he is responsible for developing product innovation
through knowledge transfer and exchange projects,
matching research expertise within the consortium
with leading textile companies. Current develop-
ment projects are focused on working with the
Scottish Cashmere Knitwear Industry in the estab-
lishment of a Knit Research Centre and building a
portfolio of collaborative knit research projects for
existing and new emerging markets.Chris Moffett is a philosopher of education, at
Teachers College, researching the aesthetic practices
of education—the ways in which we imagine and
perform “education.” (From narratives and archi-
tectures of urban descent and emergence, to myriad
forms of mark-making.) He is also a Feldenkrais
Practitioner of movement education, and is part
of a collaboration exploring embodied, kinesthetic
practices of drawing. This work, at the interstices
of education, movement, and drawing has recently
been presented at a number of museums and insti-
tutions.Michael Moore earned a BFA degree in Print-
making from Syracuse University in 1963 and an