President

Hayley Ferber is a contemporary arts leader, educator, artist and curator living in Brooklyn, New York. In her current role as Operations Manager of the 92NY Art Center and previous role as Deputy Director of Chashama, she supports a creative community of multidisciplinary artists. In her personal artistic practice, she creates artist’s books incorporating suminagashi paper marbling and printmaking, exploring themes of hope and struggle through nautical imagery. As an independent facilitator with over 15 years of art education experience, Hayley has taught workshops for the Swiss Institute, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and Pelham Art Center and served as guest juror for the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs and Queens Council for the Arts. Hayley’s curatorial projects include collaborations with the New York Artist Equity Association and the New York Artists Circle. Hayley received her MAT in Art & Design Education from the Rhode Island School of Design and BS in Studio Art from New York University.

Advisory Board Member

Christopher Kaczmarek is a New York based artist and educator whose work spans both experimental and traditional practices, including sculpture, site specific installations, performance, video, built circuits and solar-powered objects. His work is often interactive and designed to guide the viewer towards a deeper contemplation about the active and passive roles they play in their inhabited environment. Recent interests have been concerned with the act of walking as a praxis for artistic production, and the shapes in which collective and collaborative settings can be formed to become spaces where imagination and creativity are used in the service of hopeful outcomes.

He has had the opportunity to present work at national and international galleries and festivals such as Art Souterrain in Montreal, Canada; the Trinity College Science Gallery, Dublin Ireland; the Byzantine Museum of Agios Germanos, Prespes Greece; the New York Hall of Science, Queens NY; Real Art Ways, Hartford CT; the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus OH; Art Museum of the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing, China; Art Walk Projects, Edinburgh, Scotland; Walking Art and Relational Geographies International Encounters Girona-Olot-Vic, Catalonia Spain; and the Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea.

Christopher Kaczmarek received an MFA in Visual Art and an MA in Modern and Contemporary Art History, Theory and Criticism from Purchase College, State University of New York, and is currently an Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Art, and Chair of the Department of Art and Design at Montclair State University, New Jersey USA

Chair of Programming

Bat-Ami Rivlin is a NY based sculptor and educator. She holds an MFA from Columbia University, NY, and a BFA from SVA, NY. Rivlin's work has been exhibited in venues such as Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Santa Cruz, Spain; Museo de la Ciudad, Querétaro, Mexico; Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY; M 2 3, New York, NY; A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Sharp Projects, Copenhagen, Denmark; Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL; The Jewish Museum, New York, NY. Rivlin’s work was featured in publications such as Artforum, Bomb Magazine, Brooklyn Rail, Flash Art, Artnet, Office Magazine, and The Paris Review. She is the recipient of the Two Trees BSI fellowship, A.I.R. Gallery Fellowship, NADA House Studio fellowship, NYFA IAP fellowship, NARS Foundation Residency, among others. Rivlin holds a teaching position in Teachers College, Columbia University and is Chair of Programming for University Council of Art Education.

Chair of Grants and Archiving

Hannah Bigeleisen is an artist, designer and educator living and working in Brooklyn, NY. She holds an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, an MSEd from Long Island University, and a BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art. Her design work has been featured in NY Times T-List, NY Mag, Design Milk, Architectural Digest, Elle Decor Espana,Sight Unseen and Surface Magazine. Bigeleisen has also held sculpture residencies at The Gowanus Studio Space, BEAM Center in Vermont, ChaNorth in Pine Plains, NY and Cooler Ranch in Peconic, NY. She has shown at Collectible Design in Brussels, Belgium, Sight Unseen Offsite Online, PS 122 Gallery, Equity Gallery and Future Fair Online. Bigeleisen currently teaches at LaGuardia Community College CUNY and is the Chair of Grants and Archiving for the University Council for Art Education.

Vice President/Membership

Andrew Willgress is an art educator and visual artist. He is currently a visual arts/art criticism teacher and the arts chair at Gotham Professional Arts Academy, an art focused college preparatory public high school in Bed-Stuy. Willgress is a founding teacher of Gotham, established in 2007, and contributed to the development of the arts program, visual art curriculum and organizational structure. Prior to Gotham Academy, he accumulated extensive experience with art organizations in teaching and directorial roles. He began his teaching career as an outdoor educator. Willgress earned a MAT in Art Education from SVA, and a BFA in Studio Art from the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Programming

Noga Cohen is New York based artist and educator. She is the recipient of the Immigrant Artists Program Fellowship of NYFA (New York Foundation for the Arts) for 2021-22. She received her MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University in 2021. While earning her MFA, she won the David Berg Foundation Fellowship, the Artis Contemporary Fellowship, and the Brevoort-Eickemeyer Fellowship. In 2018, she received the Gross Foundation Prize, the Adams Prize, and the SBY grant for emerging artists. Her work has been included in venues such as Amos Eno Gallery (Brooklyn), ChaShaMa (New York), Wallach Gallery (New York), Project V Gallery (New York), the Art Lab (Tel Aviv), and more. Her work was featured in publications such as ArtForum, Maake Magazine, Tiger Strikes Asteroid Magazine, and more.

Former President

Chair of Marketing and Communications