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2023-24 Art Ready Mentors

Megan Mi-Ai Lee
Sculpture, Drawing, Ceramics
Bushwick, Brooklyn

Megan is an interdisciplinary artist working in Brooklyn, New York. Lee has held residencies at Ox-Bow School of Art, Storm King Art Center, and Smack Mellon, and was the 2018 Curatorial Fellow at Socrates Sculpture Park. Recent exhibitions of her work include Room 3557 (Los Angeles, CA; forthcoming), Godwin-Ternbach Museum (Flushing, NY; 2022), Art Lot (Brooklyn, NY; 2022), and Park View/Paul Soto (Los Angeles, CA; 2020). She is a two-time Canada Council for the Arts grantee and a New York Community Trust Van Lier Fellow. She received her BFA from the Cooper Union School of Art in 2018.


Phillip Shung
Graphic & Web Design
Crown Heights, Brooklyn

Phillip Shung graduated from Hampton University with a degree in Art in 1996 and since that time, his mantra has been to communicate intelligently to the masses. His career has spanned many roles in the creative design field ranging from Creative Director for Vibe Magazine to Promotion Art Director at Women’s Wear Daily/WWD. Shung has also done significant design work in fashion for brands like Enyce and Avirex as well as websites for NAS and Destiny’s Child. In 2001, Shung founded Sundree Brand Solutions focusing on all aspects of advertising, editorial, print and website design. He is a director of Brooklyn Combine.


Rebecca Shapass
Video & Photography
DUMBO, Brooklyn

Rebecca Shapass is a filmmaker and artist investigating documentary form and archival practice through the creation of film & video, photo, installation, and text. In her studio, she combines techniques of optical & aural abstraction with documentary sensibilities to propel audiences into a space of questioning not only what they see & hear – but how and why. Rebecca is compelled by the uncapturable – what escapes both image & language — and how these absences haunt memory & archive.

Photo by Kevin Mathein


Max St Pierre, Sage & Coombe Architects
Design & Architecture
Tribeca, Manhattan

Originally from Berkeley, California Max spent his postgraduate years working at various advertising agencies in San Francisco before moving to New York to attend Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation. Max’s passion for cities and good civic-minded architecture has defined his work. 

His research on public housing and climate has been exhibited at the Seoul Biennale, the Venice Biennale, and throughout New York. Currently, at Sage and Coombe Architects, Max is working on the project design for the Brooklyn Public Library’s Ryder Branch.


Isabella Wachsler, lucky risograph
Risograph & Printmaking
DUMBO, Brooklyn

Isabella Wachsler is a NYC-based illustrator and art educator. Since receiving her BFA in Illustration from Parsons School of Design, she has taught a variety of visual art classes to nearly all age groups–from toddlers to adults. At lucky risograph, she runs workshops where she teaches people how to create prints using a risograph.


Craig Anthony Miller (CAM)
Painting & Public Art
DUMBO, Brooklyn

Craig Anthony Miller (CAM) (b. 1971) was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He received his BFA in graphic design from Saint John’s University in Queens, New York. His profession as a graphic designer, gave way to his natural transition into painting. The opportunity to share his creative process at a live painting event on the Lower East Side in 1996 was the first in a series of events that would lead him to shift his focus primarily to painting. 

Working in primarily acrylic and aerosol paints, both in studio and public spaces, CAM has created a series of paintings and murals that combine the style of stained glass and the energy of the urban landscape with symbols of freedom, strength, resilience and wellbeing.


Team
Hua Chen, Derek Koch, Ian Thomas
Graphic Design
DUMBO, Brooklyn

Hua (they/them) is a Brooklyn-based brand designer who works with words and systems. They have worked at a variety of design firms, like Droga5 and Base Design, as well as the Center for Urban Pedagogy, a Brooklyn non-profit that helps build community power. They hold a BFA from Pratt Institute in Communications Design and clothes in their spare time.

Derek (he/him) is a multidisciplinary designer with expertise in developing identities, experiences, and publications that inform, inspire, and empower individuals and their audiences. Prior to joining Team, he worked at Poulin + Morris and Herter Design Group, where he specialized in design for built environments. He received his BFA from Rowan University in New Jersey with a specialization in Graphic Design.

Ian (he/him) is a graphic designer specializing in typographic systems for print, screens, and brands. Previously, he worked for Michael Bierut at Pentagram and art directed The Architect’s Newspaper. He studied graphic design at North Carolina State University’s College of Design, and is currently studying ikebana in the Ryuseiha school.