Moore’s Art Education Dept.

Over the last 2 years our Art Education program has almost doubled in size. This means adding new faculty! Welcome Professors Erica Mandell and Kim Gavin! Art Education Faculty left to right Full-Time Faculty: Director & Associate Professor Lauren Stichter Associate Professor Amanda Newman-Godfrey Adjunct Professors: Hanna Lee Candy A. Gonzalez Kat Lee Bailey Goldenbaum Aliza Greenberg Emilee Taylor Katherine Videira Lynette Brown Sarah Swanson Alex Waite Joyce Millman Lana Sommers Liam Maher Lauren Bauer Erika Thompsen Erica Mandell Not pictured with respect to individual preferences: Professors Rod Jones & Kim Gavin

Summer 2026 Free Accessible Arts Workshops Open to Disabled Adults (18+), these sessions are led by our graduate Art Education students from Moore College of Art & Design under faculty supervision. Workshop Dates: Tuesday July 14th, 10:30am-12pm Thursday July 16th, 10:30am-12pm Tuesday July 21st, 10:30am-12pm Thursday July 23rd, 10:30am-12pm Tuesday July 28th, 10:30am-12pm For Registration & Questions please email Director Lauren Stichter at [email protected] ID: a blue flyer with the same above text and a colorful banner in the middle.

Congratulations to our MA & BFA in Art Education students! You’ve all worked so hard to get to the finish line 🩷

So proud of our Sophomore and Junior Art Ed students who presented at final Crits over the last week! ID: a series of short videos and images showing college students presenting their art work to a small group.

Thank you Mural Arts: Color Me Back for facilitating such a wonderful professional development in collaboration with our MA in Art Education program, and the Philly School District! We are especially grateful to Moore Alumni Sandy Sheller, who helped establish the Color Me Back Program, for making this connection. Shout out to the CMB team featuring Emily Crane, Cory Kram, Katie Brown, Monica Mathieu and Reese Juelg. ID: a series of pictures showing speakers facilitating art workshop and attendees making collages and name tags.

I’m honored to join this year’s Summer Artist/Educator Residency at Moore College of Art as the keynote speaker. My talk will center around the philosophy that guides my practice, The Pursuit of Healing, and the ways I navigate trauma, memory, transformation, and Black interior life through painting, collage, and material experimentation. A lot of my work asks what it means to create not as a form of escape, but as an act of reckoning, empathy, and radical possibility. In alignment with this year’s theme, Restorative Studio: Mindfulness, Material, and Process, I’ll be speaking about creating from a place of deep awareness and how art can become a space for reflection, repair, and honest confrontation with ourselves and the world around us. If you’re interested in joining the conversation, registration for Moore’s Summer Artist/Educator Residency is open now at www.moore.edu/SAER.

The Summer Artist/Educator Residency at Moore College of Art is honored to welcome Sammy Kovnat (SKOVeS) as a Guest Artist and Speaker this year. • Within their intimate studio practice, SKOVeS has created mosaics that are an exploration of the ways in which feeling broken can transform us, as well as the things we can do to transform ourselves through that healing process. Their decade-long mosaic practice began from a period of their life in which they felt broken and voiceless, SKOVeS found that there was a kinship within the shame of breaking things and the shame in feeling broken, and that they could create healing within both experiences through mosaic. During this keynote, SKOVeS will reflect on their journey as an artist, and how it has been shaped by hands-on learning, collaboration, and community engagement. In alignment with this year's themes, Restorative Studio: Mindfulness, Material, and Process, their talk will explore how making can become a site of reclamation, where vulnerability is not only welcomed, but essential to the creative process. • Interested in joining us for this talk? Register for Moore's Summer Artist/Educator Residency now at www.moore.edu/SAER or check out @moorecollegeart . • Headshot photo credits to @emilyvaleo .

Congratulations to all of our Art Ed Seniors on their final exhibition and Crits! We are so proud of you Aya, Makaila, Julieyanna, Daneisha and Julianna 🩷 A special thanks to Professor Candy Gonzalez who facilitated a wonderful learning space and to our guest critic Brielle DuBose. ID: a series of images showcasing students with their artwork and a small group of peers and faculty giving feedback.

Honored to be the faculty advisor for the Disabled Student Alliance. This year they received Moore’s BEAD award recognizing their work in Belonging, Equity, Accessibility and Diversity. I got a surprise Advisor Recognition award as well 🥹. I love working with this sweet crew. ID: 3 college students stand with a professor holding their awards.

Congratulations to Art Ed students Bekah, Ren & Daneisha (not pictured) who received awards at this years Student Leadership banquet 👏👏👏 We are so proud of our students, the clubs they help run, and the communities they engage with. ID: two college age students stand with awards in their hands, smiling at the camera.

Join us this Thursday evening for the second half of our senior exhibition! Featuring our BFA Art Ed, Animation & Game Arts, Photography and Fine Arts students. Flyer by @wiktoriaasphotos ID: A dark flyer with 2 light circles overlapping with text on top.

So honored to receive one of this year’s Autistic Arts Coalition of Philadelphia Awards! - Director Lauren Stichter The awards ceremony was as held during the @aacophilly annual exhibition over at @childrensphila . Thanks to @colleen.r.ott and her amazing team for facilitating such a beautiful event. Shout out to our friend @williambworld who also received an @aacophilly award this year! ID: a series of pictures showing people getting awards and displays of art work.