Instructor
Tess Bilhartz grew up in Dallas, Texas, and is currently based in New York City where she teaches art at Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York. Recent solo shows include Follow Me Down at Rubber Factory in 2022 and What On Earth at Super Dutchess in 2020. Residencies include the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2017) and the Sharpe Walentas Space Program (2013). She regularly contributes to Bomb Magazine and has written for the Brooklyn Rail.
Barry Bergdoll is Meyer Schapiro Professor of Art History at Columbia University and the former Chief Curator in the Department of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. A specialist in the history of modern architecture, he curated numerous exhibitions at MoMA, the Canadian Centre for Architecture, the Musée d’Orsay, and other venues, including Mies In Berlin (2001), Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops for Modernity (2009-2010), Latin America in Construction : Architecture 1955-1980 (2015) and Frank Lloyd Wright at 150 : Unpacking the Archive (2017). He is the author most recently of Marcel Breuer: Building Global Institutions (2017), and many other publications including the widely used textbook European Architecture 1750-1890 (2000). A frequent lecture in both scholarly venues and for general audiences interested in architecture, he has taught for three decades at Columbia as well as a visitor in many institutions around the world. An honorary fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, and of the New York Chapter of the AIA, he serves as President of the Board of the Center for Architecture, New York.
A graphic designer with an edge of motion, making work in broadcast, nightlife, media, and event production. She’s a founding member of Little Cinema, an immersive theatre company based out of House of Yes, Brooklyn, and maintains an active practice of collaboration with studios, nonprofits, and creative individuals of all kinds. She partnered with AIGA Eye on Design Magazine to design the Psych issue, winning Stack Magazine’s Cover of the Year for 2018. She has made work for Pentagram, Medium, The New York TImes, New Yorker Magazine, GIPHY, Squarespace, The FADER, and MTV News; attempting to make cable television relevant again via interstitials, GIFs, broadcast takeovers, and general randomness. Shira holds a BFA from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, and an MFA from Yale University, and currently teaches motion graphics at Parsons School of Design in New York City.
Jonathan Bruce Williams received a BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 2008 and an MFA from Columbia University in 2015. He's used the Arduino platform for artistic and commercial purposes, from a Miley Cyrus teddy bear to conceptually motivated hydroponic systems. His work has been seen on MTV, on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles, at the Minneapolis Institute of the Arts and at Koenig and Clinton in Chelsea. He utilizes Arduino programming and a critical philosophy of technology for every project.
