Faculty
We have a dedicated faculty of professional artists who emphasize a collaborative learning environment across a wide range of disciplines. Our goal is to guide our students to develop their artistic vision and to become enlightened citizens of our world or simply to enjoy the process of creativity.
Maurizio Pellegrin
All Media
Pellegrin was born in Venice, Italy. An artist of international reputation, he is also a revered arts educator who holds a Master’s Degree in Art History, Ca’ Foscari University in Venice. He studied sculpture and painting at the Academy of Fine Arts of Venice, where he also holds the equivalent of the American MFA in Studio Art. Pellegrin directed the Venice Program Master of Art at New York University and taught Phenomenology of the Arts and Advanced Studio at Teachers College, Columbia University. In addition, he has taught Modern Design and Architecture at Rhode Island School of Design, he was Director of the School and Creative Director at the National Academy Museum and School, where he later became the Dean of the school. Pellegrin is also the former Chief Executive of Cultural Affairs at two ancient Venetian institutions, I.R.E. and Fondazione Venezia, Venice. As an artist, he has had more than 150 solo and 400 group exhibitions in major museums and galleries, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art; Corcoran Gallery of Art, (Washington D.C); Museum of Contemporary Art, (Cleveland, Ohio); Fort Wayne Museum of Art, (Indiana); Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, (Arizona); Peggy Guggenheim Collection, (Venice, Italy); and the Ca’ Pesaro International Gallery of Modern Art, (Venice, Italy). He is currently the Executive Director of the New York School of the Arts and the Hub Center for the Arts.
Elizabeth Allison
Watercolor
Elizabeth Allison received her B.F.A. from University of Michigan and her M.F.A. from the City College of New York. She is the recipient of the Raluca Popescu Memorial Scholarship, a Nessa Cohen Grant, and three Elizabeth Greenshields Grants. She had a monumental sculpture installed in Riverside Park South and was a visiting artist at Buffalo State College. She is represented by Hugo Galerie.
Ingo Appel
Sculpture
Appel was born in Hamburg, Germany. A Sculptor and educator, his formative years in the 3-D visual arts and philosophy were strongly directed by his father, artist, and craftsman who was influenced by the Bauhaus Movement. Ingo received his BA from SUNY New Paltz and went on to study at Parsons, Columbia University, TC, ASL. He also studied at The National Academy of Design, under Antonio Antonios and Barney Hodes; Where Mr. Appel was on the Faculty and Head of the Sculpture Department. Cited by William Zimmer Regional Art Critic Of the New York Times for his work on 911, cited in collaboration with Richard Graham and Stevens Institute on the Concert of Thorns. Mr. Appel was again cited by the New York Times, for his contribution to the Arts, Architecture, and Historic Preservation in relation to cross-gender and cross-racial imperatives. Through Villa Lewaro he co-produced and co-directed the show Sculpture and Beauty at City Center, Hammerstein Ballroom. In addition, he was recognized and honored by the National Sculpture Society where his work was shown at the prestigious Brookgreen Gardens Pawleys Island, SC.
Peter Bonner
Painting
Bonner is an Australian Artist, who in 1996 won the Dobell Prize, the highest prize for Drawing in Australia. In his early 20s, he traveled in India, the Middle East, and throughout Europe, and studied drawing and painting in London, Melbourne, and New York. In 2010 he completed a Masters by Research at Monash University pursuing his interest in Perception, Narrative, and the Primitive. He has been influenced greatly by Australian Aboriginal artists, Russian Icons, the deserts of Central Australia, and the American West, and currently lives and works in NYC.
Bonner’s work is included in the collections of the Victorian State Library and Monash University in Melbourne, the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, and various private and corporate collections around the world.
Kathryn Cameron
Working with Paper, Sculpture
Kathryn Cameron is an American artist living and working in New York. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Kutztown University in cinema and television production and has been trained in art at several institutions in New York since 1990. She studied sculpture, painting, and printmaking at The National Academy Museum and School in New York. She also studied sculpture and painting at the School of Visual Arts and the New York Academy of Arts, and paper making at Carriage House Paper in Brooklyn, NY.
Kathryn Cameron has exhibited nationally and internationally through solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums and Centers for the Arts. She created several site-specific indoor and outdoor works in the USA. Europe and New Zealand. Her work is included in private and public collections in the United States, Europe and New Zealand.
Davide Cantoni
Painting
Cantoni was born in Italy, Cantoni completed his BA Fine Art at the Slade School in London where he was awarded a Boise travel scholarship in 1988 for an exchange year at the Hochschule Der Kunst in Berlin. Attended the Royal College of Art and received an MA (RCA) in Painting in 1993. His work has been shown extensively in Europe and the USA as well as Asia and is included in many public and private collections, MOMA and OSRAM collections amongst others. Cantoni’s artistic practice has over the years has focused on the way our society presents images and how they are consumed, Cantoni’s particular interest is in relation to news imagery published in the New York Times. He has lived and worked in NYC for the last 20 years.
Jenny Carolin
Painting, Drawing
Carolin received her Masters in Fine Arts with a concentration in Painting from Syracuse University in 2009, and her Bachelors in Fine Arts from the Columbus College of Art and Design in 2005. Her numerous exhibitions include the Edward Hopper Museum in Nyack, NY, the Sarah Silberman Gallery at Montgomery College in Rockville, MD, the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, NY, and the Tempe Art Center, in Tempe, AZ. Her awards include the Posey Foundation Award and the Jerome Solomon Foundation Grant. Carolin has over ten years of experience instructing classes in drawing and painting. She has taught Figure Drawing, Foundation Drawing, and Drawing and Painting for Non-Art Majors for the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University. Currently, she is the Director of Operations at Shoestring Studio, where she leads courses in figure drawing and oil painting. She is also a founding member of the Mudhouse Artist Residency program in Crete, and its sister program, the Athena Standards Residency in Athens, Greece.
Leonor Mendoza
Sculpture
Leonor Mendoza is an artist Venezuelan artist based in New York. Mendoza holds a BFA from the Federico Brandt Art Institute in Caracas (1993) and a Residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris (2000). Mendoza has exhibited her work nationally and internationally through solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums, including Fondazione Luciano Benetton, Italy, Museo del Barrio, NY, and Art Museum of the Americas (OAS), Washington, DC. Her work is represented in the collections of Fondazione Luciano Benetton (Italy), Jacobo Borges Museum (Venezuela), Art Museum of the Americas (USA), Venezuelan Industrial Bank (Venezuela), and Sidetur (Venezuela). Mendoza's work has been featured in the New York Times, Architectural Records Magazine, NY Arts Magazine, Art Nexus, among others.
Mildor Chevalier
Painting
Chevalier is a Hatian visual artist. Mildor holds an Associates Degree in Fine Arts from the School of Design at Altos del Chavón in the Dominican Republic. He also obtained a BFA at Parsons the New School for Design in NYC and an MFA from the Fashion Institute of Technology in NYC. Whether through painting, drawing, or sculpture, Mildor generally creates scenes that explore human experience, wishes, and dreams. His multi-cultural experiences give him access to the world of global art and he has become an international artist with individual and collective exhibitions, biennials, and art fairs from Haiti to Quebec, from New York to Shanghai, from Paris to Santo Domingo. His work is in private collections in the Dominican Republic, China, and around the world. Mildor also designed several instruction manuals with step-by-step lessons for the art supply company, Daler Rowney. Manuals titles: Master Series Drawing (colored pencil, charcoal, oil pastel), Master Series Watercolor, Master Series Acrylic, Master Series Oil, Master Series Mixed Media, including an art therapy coloring book titled World Culture. Besides Mildor’s art practice, he is an art instructor at Studio In A School NYC and the School of Visual Art at the New York State Summer School of Arts (NYSSSA).
Gabriela Dellosso
Painting, Drawing
Dellosso is a narrative artist, using representational figurative subjects. She received her BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Her work has been published in American Art Collector, American Artist, The Artist’s Magazine, ARTnews, Fine Art Connoisseur, and The New York Times. Her work has also been exhibited in museum invitationals: Re-presenting Representation VII at The Arnot Art Museum; “Portrait of America: The Nation and Ohio” at The Butler Institute of American Art; “WOMEN ARTISTS @ NEW BRITAIN MUSEUM” at The New Britain Museum, among others. She has had one-woman exhibitions in 2006 and 2016 at the Butler Institute of American Art, OH. Gabriela’s art is part of several museum collections, including The Arkansas Arts Center, AR; The Butler Institute of American Art, OH; The Fort Wayne Museum of Art, IN; The Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY; The Golisano Children’s Museum in Naples, Fl; The Municipal Museum, Guayaquil, Ecuador; The Museum of Art, Deland, FL: The New Britain Museum of American Art, CT; The Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL; The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, NJ; The Salmagundi Club, NY and the Springfield Art Museum, MO. Her creativity has garnered her over 25 awards in the past decade including gold medals from The Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club and The Pastel Society of America. Gabriela is represented by the Harmon-Meek Gallery in Naples, Florida. She is an instructor at The New York School for the Arts in New York City and The JCC of Manhattan.
Henry Finkelstein
Painting, Drawing
Finkelstein studied at the Cooper Union with Rueben Kadish and Nicolas Marsicano and at the Yale School of Art with Lester Johnson. He has taught at the Hartford Art School, the College of William and Mary, Pratt Institute, the New York Studio School, and the Washington DC Studio School. In 1983 he received a Fulbright Fellowship for Painting in Italy. Since then he has received numerous awards, including a French government grant and the Julius Hallgarten Prize at the National Academy. Finkelstein has had solo exhibitions at the Kraushaar Gallery; the Simon Gallery, Morristown, NJ; the Valley House Gallery, Dallas, TX, and the Between the Muse Gallery, Rockland, ME. His work has also been exhibited at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery, the Ingber Gallery, the Portland Museum of Art, as well as the National Academy Museum.
Michiyo Fukushima
Watercolor
Fukushima received her first recognition as one of the winners when she submitted her 51"x64" inch oil painting to the National High-school competition by Mr. Yasuji Asaba's encouragement, who suggested her to be his pupil during her high-school years. Although she loved painting and drawing she took a path to be a photographer and worked for magazines for a few years after graduating from college in Tokyo. While enjoying photography, she felt it wasn't really fulfilling her passion for creation and decided to study abroad to get back to art again and to broaden her life experience. Her encounter with watercolor was rather by accident as it was the only class available at that time of registration. It didn't take much time that she found herself falling in love with the medium. She is represented by Fischbach Gallery and her works have been successfully exhibited in Osaka, Tokyo (Both with Takashimaya) New York, and Miami. She is teaching regularly at the New York Academy of Art and Art Students League for workshops. Her works have been featured in numerous magazines, art books, and newspapers such as Internation herald tribune, American Artist, and Splash series.
Yuka Imata
Drawing
Imata earned her B.F.A. at Massachusetts College of Art and Design followed by Art Students League of New York winning the Xavier Gonzales and Ethel Edwards Grant to study in Spain. She has received awards from the Salmagundi and Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Clubs and was featured in American Artist and Plein Air Magazines. Her work has been shown throughout the U.S. at the Chelsea Art Museum, National Arts Club, Cork Gallery at Lincoln Center, and overseas in Florence, Tokyo, Yokohama, and the Museum of Kyoto. Her recent portrait commission includes Montefiore Hospital, Bronx, NY, Fife n’ Drum Restaurant, Kent, CT, and numbers of private commissions. She is represented at The Good Gallery, CT.
Weixian Jiang
Sculpture
Weixian Jiang holds an MFA from New York Studio School, Sculpture Section, and a BA from Tianjin Academy of Arts, Tianjin China. The elemental sculptures of Weixian Jiang transform stark industrial materials such as bronze, cement, or ceramic into forms reminiscent of their organic origins of ore, sediment, and clay – breathing new life to a nearly forgotten past state of nature. Jiang's works are firmly rooted in the harmony between material and process. The artist uses traditional and modern techniques such as hand forged iron, found objects, welding, weaving, “snow casting”, a technique achieved by pouring molten wax or plaster in a deep layer of snow, and “water casting”, using water instead of snow -- all to create haunting, organic forms. To Weixian Jiang, this form of sculpture is the most primary form of creation. He takes a bit from nature. He takes a bit from industry. These worlds come together in his hands, as a process of pure manufacturing.
Michele Liebler
Painting
Liebler has had several solo and group exhibitions. She is a native New Yorker and continues to work in her studio in Brooklyn to produce works for her upcoming exhibitions. Liebler received her BFA from Purchase College in painting and drawing and her MFA from Brooklyn College. She has exhibited in such venues as Parrish Art Museum, Arnot Art Museum, National Academy Museum, Butler Institute of American Art, and private collections internationally. She received numerous awards for her paintings including Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant, The Stefan Hirsch Award, Charles L. Tenenbaum Award, The Edward Mooney Traveling Award that allowed her to paint and study art abroad in Europe, Ralph Weiler Prize, GIP Grant, Horlick Painting Award, and Arnot Art Museum Award for Painting. Her work has been reviewed in the Star Ledger, The New York Times, Indepth Art News, NY Art Beat and she has been interviewed on CNN on her work. Her recent interview is in LINEA magazine. Liebler currently is teaching painting and drawing at New York School of the Arts, The Art Students League, as well as privately. Liebler is represented by First Street Gallery in New York City.
Karen Lindsay
Art History, Photography
Lindsay received her M.A. in History of Art from the University of California at Berkeley, studied at the International Center of Photography and the School of Visual Arts, as well as abroad in France, Germany, and Japan. Lindsay’s series of documentary art films was broadcast on public television and shown at the New York, Toronto, Chicago, and Berlin Film festivals. She has taught photography and art workshops at the International Center of Photography, National Academy School, and the Educational Alliance Art School among other schools.
Nadia Martinez
Sculpture, Drawing, New Media
Martinez is a Connecticut-based Honduran multimedia artist. She started her studies in architecture in Honduras, studied at the National Academy of Fine Arts in NYC, and received her MFA in Visual Arts from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She works with diverse media, including printmaking, painting, sculptures, and installations. Martinez has exhibited her work nationally and internationally in individual and group exhibitions at 4uattro Pareti Galleria, Italy; Stamford Art Association, CT; Zorya Fine Art, CT and Art Basel week, Miami, FL; D’Museo, Venezuela; ArtLima, Peru; Pinta Art Fair, NYC; the National Academy Museum, NYC; Södertälje Konstforening, Sweden; Museo del Juguete Antiguo, DF, Mexico, among others. She was an artist in residence at the Museum of Arts and Design, NYC. She was nominated for Women to Watch 2018, National Museum of Women in the Arts, DC by Shannon R. Stratton, MAD’s William and Mildred Lasdon Chief Curator of the Museum of Arts and Design, NY, NY. Her work is part of selected collections such as the Art Bank Program of the US Department of State in Washington DC and other private collections in the United States, France, Peru, and Venezuela.
Taka Maruno
Printmaking
Maruno graduated from Kuwasawa Design School in Tokyo. As an architect, he worked for world famous firms including Riki Watanabe, Shiro Kuramata, Shigeru Uchida, Aldo Rossi, and Akira Watanabe in Tokyo. As an artist, he studied under Beth Lipman at Urban Glass in Brooklyn as well as George Nama, Kathy Caraccio, and Vincent Baldassano at the National Academy. He is a member of the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop. Maruno has received numerous awards including the Col. Michael Jacobs Prize and the Ralph Wailer Exhibition Award, and he has shown his works at the University of Richmond Museum and at galleries in the US, Australia, the Netherlands, Turkey, and Japan.
Eric Michelson
Drawing, Painting
Michelson received his Bachelor’s degree from Stony Brook University, Michelson moved to New York where he continued his studies at the Art Students League with Robert Beverly Hale, Ted Seth Jacobs, and Robert Phillip-three men who have had a profound impact and influence on his own paintings as well as his teaching methodology. He presently lives and maintains a studio in New York City. His work ranges from large mythological compositions to portraits and the occasional still life.
Carlos Mendoza
Sculpture
Mendoza received his M.A. in sculpture from the Royal College of Art, London. In Venezuela, he was head of the department of restoration and conservation of Sculpture of the Galería de Arte Nacional. He taught at the Escuela de Artes Plasticas Cristóbal Rojas in Venezuela. He was president of the National Association of the Young Sculpture. He has participated in several solo and group exhibitions, including the Conac Gallery, the V National Salon of Young Artists, Venezuela, the VII National Biennial of Visual Arts, Galería de Arte Nacional, XLII, XLIII, and XLIV Arturo Michelena Hall, Galería Oro Negro, Venezuela, the 8th Small and Medium Sculpture Triennial, Budapest, which was part of an exhibition that later went to Bucharest, Belgrade, Reykjavik, Stockholm, Vienna, Paris, and The Hague among others. He has received multiple awards including, the Julio Morales Lara Awards, Arturo Michelena Hall of Valencia. Sculpture Award, Aragua Hall. National Encounter of Sculptors Award Fundarte. Caracas Metro Award and II Prize Francisco Narváez Sculpture Biennial. Special mention in the Sculpture Hall. His work is in the Art Museum of Maracay, Aragua; Andrés Pérez Mujica Open Air Museum and Ateneo Collection, Valencia; Minas de Aroa National Park, Yaracuy, and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Zulia, Maracaibo among others.
Elizabeth O’Reilly
Watercolor
O’Reilly received her B.Ed from The National University of Ireland, and an MFA from Brooklyn College, New York. She has participated in residencies at the Ballinglen Foundation, Ireland, the Ucross Foundation, Wyoming, and the Ragdale Foundation, Illinois. O’Reilly has received numerous awards, including a Pollock Krasner Foundation grant, a Charles G. Shaw award for painting, and a grant from the Peter S. Reed Foundation. A documentary on her work, Ealaiontóir Thar Sáile (An Artist Abroad) was shown on network TV in Ireland. O’Reilly shows at The George Billis Gallery in Chelsea, New York. On the faculty at the New York School of the Arts O’Reilly has also taught at the New School for Social Research, The National Academy, and Pratt University, as well as out of her studio in the Gowanus area of Brooklyn. Her work has been reviewed in Art in America, The New York Sun, and Art News, among others. Ms. O’Reilly’s work is found in many corporate and public collections, both in the US and internationally including the State Department, Washington, D.C: the Office of Public Works, Ireland, and the Memphis Brooks Museum in Memphis TN.
Fay Sanders
Painting
Sanders is an artist based in Queens, NY with a BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University and an MFA from Brooklyn College. She has shown with Field Projects, Queens College, Smith College, and La Loma Projects. Sanders has been an artist in residence at Vermont Studio Center, MASS MoCA, Kimmel Harding Center for the Arts, and The Ellis-Beauregard Foundation. She is a recipient of the 2021 Queens Art Fund grant and the 2021 City Artist Corps grant.
Bennett Vadnais
Painting, Watercolor
Vadnais grew up in Washington State. He began pursuing art seriously in his early teens and trained in the classical tradition at such schools as, the Bougie Studio, MN, the Water Street Atelier, NY, and the Art Students League of New York. His work has earned him various awards, including the first scholarship given by the American Society of Classical Realism and a merit scholarship from the Art Students League. In 2003, he was the recipient of both the Edward McDowell and the Xavier Gonzalez travel grants. These grants allowed Vadnais the opportunity to study independently in Europe for nearly two years. Vadnais has shown work with Anderson Fine Art Gallery, St. Simons Island, GA, Atlanta Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA, Century Gallery, Alexandria, VA, Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY, John Pence Gallery, San Francisco, KB Gallery, New York, NY. Currently, he is exhibiting with Galerie L’oeil du Prince, Paris, France, and the George Billis Gallery, New York, NY.
Pamela Fenwick
Watercolor
Pamela Fenwick studied at Moore College of Art in Philadelphia. Her career as an art director/designer brought her to NYC where she ran a successful graphic design business for many years. During this time, she studied watercolor at the National Academy in NYC and attended workshops in Maine and England. Her work has appeared in many group and solo shows and she’s won numerous awards. She lives in Leonia, N.J., and has taught watercolor both privately and at the Old Church School in Demarest, N.J.
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Mark Gonzales
Watercolor
Mark Gonzales received his B.A. in Studio Art from Hunter College and studied extensively at The Art Students League of New York. His work has been published in Drawing Magazine, Artist’s Magazine, American Artists Magazine, and Design New Jersey Magazine. He has received awards and recognition from the Portrait Society of America, The Art Renewal Center, The Artists Magazine, and The Art Students League of New York.
Mercedes Jelenik
Photography
Mercedes Jelinek (b. 1985 New Haven, CT) is an American artist working in Italy and NYC. Her curiosity about the variety of humanity drives the visual narratives in her work. The resulting projects reflect her personal connection and collaboration with her subjects. Mercedes most recent work revolves around ideas of community, identity, and redefined purpose. Mercedes holds a BFA in Visual Arts from the State University of New York at Purchase and an MFA from Louisiana State University. Her work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally, including the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in Louisiana; the Hinson Art Museum, Gaston County Museum, Blowing Rock Art and History Museum and the Cassilhaus Gallery in North Carolina; SoHo Photo Gallery, Cuchifritos Gallery, Littlefield Gallery, and Gallery MC in New York; Page Bond Gallery in Virginia; the Satellite Art Show at Art Basal Miami; 30-under-30 Exhibition at Vermont Center for Photography; MPLS Photo Center in Minnesota; Midwest Center for Photography Exhibition at the Center Gallery in Kentucky; among others.
In addition, Mercedes' publications have been acquired by the Museum of Modern Art, Guggenheim Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum, Library of Congress, Aperture Foundation, and the Getty Institute collections. She is also on the board of Blue Sky Gallery in Portland.
VISITING FACULTY
Kamilla Talbot
Watercolor
Talbot studied at The Rhode Island School of Design and the New York Studio School. Solo shows include Trygve Lie Gallery, NY; Charles P. Sifton Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Bruno Marina Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; and at the Johannes Larsen Museum, Kerteminde, Denmark (2017). She has exhibited her oils and watercolors in numerous group shows in the US and in Europe. Artist residencies include a fully-funded residency at the Vermont Studio Center, as well as grants to paint in Maine, Italy, Newfoundland, and Iceland. In 2013 she was awarded a full fellowship to the Austevoll/Marstein Fyr residency in Norway. She lives and works in Brooklyn and the Catskills. She teaches or has taught at the National Academy School; Brooklyn Botanic Garden; New York Studio School; The Art Students League; as well as privately.
Daniel Colón
Painting
Daniel Colón is a visual artist and illustrator based in the vibrant city of New York. He's a master of traditional oil painting and loves creating beautiful landscapes, portraits, storyboards, book illustrations, and murals. Daniel's work is all about observation, interpretation, and finding creative solutions to visual challenges. He honed his skills by studying painting at The Art Students League and the Maryland Institute College of Art, and also delved into art history at Hunter College. He's an accomplished artist who's been recognized with the Xavier Gonzalez and Ethel Edwards Grant, and has worked with an impressive roster of clients such as Penguin USA, National Geographic, Facebook, Viacom, and many more. You can find more of Daniel's commercial work at Boards in Motion and Wayart, where he's currently represented.
Ingrid Dinter
Professional Practice
Ingrid Dinter is an arts professional based in New York City. Originally from the west coast of Canada, she studied art at the Staedelschule in Frankfurt, Germany, in the mid 1970s. Arriving in New York City in 1981, with a grant to study with renowned photographer Lisette Model at the New School for Social Research, she stayed to pursue an art career.
In the mid 80s Dinter worked in several galleries, such as Pat Hearn and Emily Harvey, and was an assistant to Roberta Smith, art critic at The New York Times, as well as others. She was also the recipient of several Canada Council Grants, and took a studio at Times Square from 1986 to1994.
From 1991 to 2004 Dinter worked for the artist Donald Baechler, primarily as archivist, but generally as executive assistant. From 2004 to 2009 Dinter operated her own gallery, Dinter Fine Art, located in the Chelsea art district of Manhattan, presenting an eclectic program of carefully curated exhibitions.
Since closing the gallery Dinter has continued to operate as a private dealer, independent curator, writer, as well as developing special projects. Professional affiliations include Arttable, POWarts, NADA, and others.
David Dixon
Special Courses
David Dixon is an artist, filmmaker, curator, educator and founding director of the Cathouse FUNeral / Proper gallery project. His work has been exhibited at MoMA, Sculpture Center, Anthology Film Archives, Postmasters Gallery, Ryan Lee Gallery, 1GAP Gallery, National Academy Museum as well as within his own Cathouse project. He has lectured at Harvard University, New York University, School of Visual Art, Hunter College, Tyler College of Art, Vermont College of Art. He currently teaches at Pratt in Brooklyn, as well as at NYSA.
Publications that have covered his work include Brooklyn Rail, Artforum, New York Times, Artcritical, Art Spiel, Arte Fuse, Huffington Post, The Guardian, Hyperallergic. He has received awards from Alex Brown Foundation, Greenwich Collection, Wave Farm, NYSCA, Queens World Film Festival.
He was born in Philadelphia, PA, yet raised in North Carolina. He studied at Wake Forest University, holds a BFA from Parsons School of Design and MFA from Cornell University.
Priscilla Fusco
Sculpture
Priscilla Fusco combines the decorative craft of ceramics, and its various histories, with contemporary news, fashion and surrealism. She has shown at Proto Gomez, Paradice Palase, Tappeto Volante, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Norte Maar’s Counterpointe series, Underdonk, and others. She lives and works in Brooklyn. She holds a BA in English from Barnard College and an MFA from Hunter University.
Judy Mensch
Printmaking
Judy Mensch has shown her work throughout the US and abroad. She has taught printmaking at Marymount Manhattan College, Prints in Progress, Philadelphia, PA, the Connecticut GaphicArts Center, Norwalk, CT, Manhattan Graphics Center, NYC, the Lower East Side Printshop, NYC, and has demonstrated and lectured different printmaking techniques at the College of New Jersey, Southwestern University, and the University of Pennsylvania.
Her prints are in public and private collection including the New York Public Library, the New York Historical Society, Pfizer, and the Free Library of Philadelphia. She was awarded a grant in traditional Japanese woodblock printing from Art Quest Co, Ltd., Japan, and printmaking to Vermont Studio Center.
She was awarded fellowships from Yaddo, Ucross, and the Centrum voor Grafiek Frans Masereel Center. She is a member of SAGA and a founding member of the Manhattan Graphics Center. She is represented by The Old Print Shop.
Eiko Nishida
Printmaking
Eiko Nishida is a Hiroshima-born and New York-based artist. Nishida produces a site- and people-specific artwork with a wide range of materials, and it is often audience-engaged work. Her main theme is language, perspective, and being present.
Also, as motivated, strongly independent print graphic designer over twenty years of hands-on experience, productions cover various business genres. Nishida holds a Master’s degree in Fine Arts from Hunter College in New York (2023) and a Bachelor’s in Chemistry from Shimane University in Japan (1998).
Nishida’s work has been shown internationally, including Pil Seung Sa (Seoul, South Korea), KIOSK (Glasgow, Scotland), New York Buddhist Church (New York, U.S.A.), Gallery G (Hiroshima, Japan), Singapore Art Book Fair (Singapore, Singapore), Aichi Expo (Nagoya, Japan), and featured by several publications globally, including The North American Post (U.S.A.), Hyperallergic (U.S.A.), AFTERGLOBE (Singapore), EFX Art & Design (Sweden) among many others.
Chinatsu Seya
Drawing
Seya is a Japanese-bone Brooklyn-based artist. She received her BFA in metal arts and sculpture from Joshibi College of Fine Arts in Tokyo. She also studied drawing, sculpture, and mixed media arts at the National Academy in New York. In the late 2000s, she began to focus on drawing in Sumi ink, and she developed her skills and methods over the years, establishing her authentic style. Her monumental life-size figurative drawings have been selected for group shows at Blank Space Gallery in New York, Allan Nederpelt Gallery, Space Womb Gallery, and Waterfront Artists Coalition in Brooklyn. Seya’s artworks are in numerous private collections in The United States and Europe.