Who You Are
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Who We Are
Jessica Baldenhofer
Jessica oversees school visit programs at MoMA. She considers working with the Museum’s diverse student and teacher populations extremely rewarding and strives to make modern and contemporary art accessible and useful for teaching many subject areas, while also providing students with meaningful experiences with works of art. She has great respect for the commitment MoMA’s school educators have to their teaching practice and audiences. In 2002, Jessica wrote Come Look With Me: Exploring Modern Art, a book designed to help teachers and parents talk about art with children. Prior to MoMA, she oversaw on-site school visits at the Guggenheim Museum, as well as at the New-York Historical Society. She has a BA in Art History from William & Mary, an MA in Art History from Richmond University in London and an M.S.Ed in Museum Education from Bank Street College.
Jackie Delamatre
Jackie is a freelance educator at several NYC museums, including the Guggenheim Museum and the Whitney Museum. She also writes curriculum for the Guggenheim Bilbao and teaches fiction to adults in the evenings. Previously, she taught high school in the South Bronx and coordinated a research study on the effect of arts education on literacy skills. She has a BA from Brown University and an MFA in fiction from New York University and she hails from the Crescent City.
Mark Dzula
Mark D. loves working at MoMA, and he sees his job as something of a blend between two great philosophers: Socrates and Willy Wonka. A doctoral candidate in communications at Teachers College, Mark is continually impressed by the breadth and depth of work on display at MoMA and is amazed by the many deep connections one can make with the collection. Mark is the Director of Jukebox Radio, a children’s performance group. He is also an incessant doodler and writes a great deal of music. For Mark, having the chance to share his love of art through conversations with students at the Museum is a real pleasure.
Mark Epstein
Mark E. is an artist and educator living in Brooklyn. He also teaches at Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum and the Brooklyn Museum. He received his BFA from the Museum School of Fine Arts and Tufts University, taking a year out of his degree to study architecture at Ontario College of Art and Design. His MFA with distinction is from the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London. Recent residencies include the Macdowell Colony and the Jentel Foundation. In his teaching, Mark relishes investigating with students the artist's process as well as the content of the artist’s work.
Rachel Farmer
Rachel is an artist and musician with over a decade of experience in art and museum education. With an MFA from the School of The Art Institute of Chicago, she has held positions at the Chicago Children’s Museum and the Museum of Arts & Design and has taught studio art at various NYC public schools and community centers through Studio in a School and the Joan Mitchell Foundation. She enjoys a second career in documentary film, serving as associate producer on Kings Park, a documentary feature currently in post-production.
Emily Gibson
Emily has taught gallery- and studio-based classes in museums and schools throughout NYC, including the Guggenheim Museum, Studio in a School, and public schools in Harlem and the South Bronx. For Emily, learning about art enables students to explore complex realms of human experience and she hopes to inspire them to imagine solutions for the situations that challenge them. When not engaged with students, she can be found working in her studio. She earned her BFA from the Maryland Institute, teaching certification through Pratt, and MFA from the Massachusetts College of Art. As a graduate student, she traveled and studied Asian art, spending time in Shanghai, Beijing, and Tokyo.
Ardina Greco
Ardina fashions herself an explorer, whether it be travelling to distant places or simply exploring ideas in a book; she is always up for learning and trying new things. As a child, she always knew she wanted to grow up to give engaging tours, especially after going on the Jungle Boat Cruise at Disneyland for the first time. Ardina is interested in the potentially puzzling quality of artwork and strongly believes that art requires people to interact with it and make it meaningful. In this way, she enjoys her time at MoMA teaching diverse groups of students. She earned her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and is currently getting her Doctorate in art education at Teachers College.
Grace Hwang
Grace loves art and good conversation. She has worked with various age groups and programs in the Department of Education at MoMA since beginning as a twelve–month intern in 2005. She hopes to facilitate engaging experiences between students' everyday lives and the art objects in the Museum, so that each encounter with art might lead to new understandings about ourselves, our histories, and our culture. She also oversees the organizational and artistic direction of SALT, a collaborative art space in Manhattan. She has an M.S.Ed in museum education from Bank Street College of Education and lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Lisa Libicki
Lisa has taught school, family, and educator programs at NYC museums for almost a decade and has developed numerous online and print museum-based curriculum resources for teachers. Lisa discovered her love of museum education in college while working at the Williams College Museum of Art and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. When not teaching, she enjoys taking art classes, traveling, and exploring all that NYC has to offer. Originally from the City of Angels, she received her BA in art history from Williams College before moving to NYC.
Scott Wolfson
Scott is a New York–based artist and educator who values having in-depth conversations with students about works of art. The insights and connections that students make about and between objects during his lessons constantly impress him. He believes that challenging, questioning, and conversing about art expands the mind and encourages a deeper engagement with the world around us. Scott has a BA from Wesleyan University and an MFA in combined media from Hunter College. His work has been exhibited throughout the United States and Europe. He also teaches at the Whitney Museum, the Guggenheim Museum, and with the Joan Mitchell Foundation.
Francis Estrada
Francis is an educator and artist who helps coordinate MoMA’s school visits programs. With a BFA in painting and drawing from San Jose State University, he has taught in a variety of studio and museum settings to diverse audiences, including programs for adults with disabilities and after–school programs. He was also an administrator and educator at the Museum for African Art, where he enjoyed teaching about the amalgamation of art and culture through objects. Francis exhibits his work nationally, including online publications, and focuses on culture, history, and perception.
For more information about school visit programs, please call 212.333.1112 or email schoolprograms@moma.org.