Currently, Marissa serves as a CUNY University Faculty Senate Member and an Adjunct Lecturer at the town College of latest York in the Art, Art Education, and Education Departments. Since early childhood, Marissa became fascinated within the arts and its potential in bringing consideration to essential social points within her group. Sydnie Jimenez centers a lot of her work around the illustration of black/ brown youth and self-expression as a type of protest, self-care, and energy within group. Chanakarn Semachai or Punch, is an artist from Thailand who focuses on identity and multiculturalism in her work. Lucy Lacoste Gallery is happy to current Vibe Shift, July sixteen – August 13, 2022, featuring five young ceramic artists on the rise: Chanakarn Semachai, Grace Tessein, Kristy Moreno, Isaac Scott and Sydnie Jimenez. In August of 2020 Isaac completed his first mural alongside collaborators Gerald A. Brown and Roberto Lugo. The Stay Golden mural is situated at 33rd and W Diamond St. in Philadelphia, PA. Isaac Scott is a ceramic artist and curator, who presently lives in Philadelphia, PA.
As I move via areas, I search for traces, fragments, and what stays in order to grasp what was as soon as passing over the identical floor, respiration the identical air as I do.” Grace obtained her MFA in ceramics from Louisiana State University and a BFA in Ceramics and Painting with a minor in Art History from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Grace Tessein writes that her present work is an “examination of the glimmer of life that remains after loss of life. He writes that his work is “rooted in observation. Reflecting, absorbing, and reinterpreting the world wherein he lives.” Isaac obtained his MFA in Ceramic Art at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture in 2021. His ceramic work has been exhibited around the nation together with Design Miami Podium in 2020. His photographs of the 2020 Uprising in Philadelphia were featured within the June 22ndth, 2020 subject of the new Yorker.
Also in 2016, Marissa was chosen as an Ashoka Changemakers and American Express Emerging Innovator for her work as a social entrepreneur. Marissa presently serves as a Program Leader and as a member of the Advisory Board for the Unitarian Universalist College of Social Justice. Growing up in southern California, Marissa grew to become lively with the Unitarian Universalist Association, a religion-based, social justice neighborhood and the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC), a human rights organization, where she served as a Board Observer. As someone who’s involved in building a world community of human rights activists and educators, Marissa has traveled to 50 countries and has presented workshops in several, together with South Africa, Cyprus, and Canada. As a dedicated human rights and peace-building activist, artist, educator, and advocate for youth, Marissa launched ARTE in 2013 to assist young people amplify their voices and organize for human rights change in their communities by means of the visible arts.
In all of these experiences, Marissa realized the need to help young folks in their growth as organizers to assist domesticate the subsequent era of social justice leaders. Most recently, via Rotary International, Marissa was selected as a 2019 Peace Fellow on the Rotary Peace Center at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand and in 2020, Marissa was named a Gather Fellow with Seeds of Peace. In 2018, Marissa was named as a Catherine Hannah Behrend Fellow in Visual Arts Management within the 92Y Women inPower Fellowship Program. In 2011, Marissa presented at the Council of Europe’s symposium on “Human Rights in Education,” on the European Court of Human Rights. Marissa has written several publications specializing in the intersection of human rights, art schooling, and youth development, including the Huffington Post, Education Week, and Radical Teacher. Marissa also presently serves as Co-Chair of the Steering Committee of Human Rights Educators USA. Marissa is an Artist-in-Residence at the Initiative for a Just Society at the middle for Contemporary Critical Thought at Columbia University. Soraj Hongladarom is a professor of philosophy and director of the middle for Ethics of Science and Technology, Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand.