Summer Session #1
May 20 - May 31
Catwalk Institute proudly welcomes Parade Stone, a New York City-based writer for stage and screen whose work explores grief, spirituality, and family through dark comedy.
Parade Stone
Parade Stone
Affiliation: NYU
Summer Session #1
May 20 - May 31
Catwalk Institute proudly welcomes Randle Browning, a Texas-born writer and educator whose work explores art, family, landscape, and generational memory through essays, criticism, and nonfiction.
Randle Browning
Randle Browning
Randle Browning is a writer from Texas interested in art, family, and landscape. She teaches creative writing at Columbia University and lives in Brooklyn with her partner and daughter. Her essays and criticism have appeared or are forthcoming in the Virginia Quarterly Review, the New York Review of Architecture, the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Rumpus, the Brooklyn Rail, and elsewhere. During her stay at Catwalk, she’ll revise her nonfiction book manuscript about hauntings, legacy, and five generations of care and neglect in a Texas family.
Website: https://www.randlebrowning.com
Affiliation: Columbia
Summer Session #1
June 3 -June 21
Catwalk Institute proudly welcomes Jessica Bardsley, a Guggenheim Fellow, filmmaker, and scholar whose internationally recognized work explores water, media, and contemporary art through experimental film and critical theory.
Jessica Bardsley
Jessica Bardsley
Jessica Bardsley is a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow in Film-Video. Her films have screened across the world at venues like Sundance, CPH:DOX, Visions du Réel, RIDM, True/False, and the Criterion Channel. Her book Fluid Materiality: A Media Theory of Water in Contemporary Art is forthcoming from MIT Press. She received a Ph.D. in Film and Visual Studies from Harvard University and an M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is Assistant Professor of Experimental Film and Media at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. At Catwalk, she is furthering her inquiry into water's relationship with contemporary art.
Website: https://www.jessicabardsley.com/
Affiliation: NYU
Summer Session #1
June 3 -June 21
Catwalk Institute proudly welcomes Libby Mislan, a Brooklyn-based poet and community artist whose work explores healing, climate anxiety, and collective transformation through writing, movement, storytelling, and public engagement.
Libby Mislan
Libby Mislan
Libby Mislan (she/her) is a Brooklyn-based poet and community artist. She earned her MFA in poetry from Vermont College of Fine Arts in 2018 and is developing new work supported by a New York State Council on the Arts grant exploring healing from burnout, technology overuse, and climate anxiety. Mislan believes in the arts as a tool for collective transformation. Alongside her writing, she designs and facilitates community arts workshops. She teaches in New York City public schools with Community-Word Project, City Lore, and Teachers & Writers Collaborative, and is a certified InterPlay leader using movement, storytelling, and song practice.
Website: http://www.libbymislan.com/
Affiliation: Collaborator
Summer Session #1
June 3 -June 21
Catwalk Institute proudly welcomes Laura Grace Chipley, an interdisciplinary artist and educator whose work bridges electronic media, sculpture, and social practice to examine connections between urban life and the natural world.
Laura Grace Chipley
Laura Grace Chipley
Laura Grace Chipley is an NYC-based interdisciplinary artist working across electronic media, sculpture, and site-specific interventions to explore relationships between urban environments and the natural world. Her work has been featured in The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired, with support from Art Matters, the Hudson River Foundation, and the Brooklyn Arts Council. She received a 2015 A Blade of Grass Fellowship for Socially Engaged Art and a 2020 National Endowment for the Humanities Digital Projects for the Public Discovery Grant for Virtual Aquapolis. Chipley is also an Associate Professor of Media & Communications at SUNY Old Westbury.
Website: https://lauragracechipley.com/
Affiliation: Collaborator
Summer Session #1
June 3 -June 21
Catwalk Institute proudly welcomes Noga Cohen, a multidisciplinary artist and educator whose work explores the intersections of body, trauma, and ecology through sculpture, installation, textiles, printmaking, and lens-based media.
Noga Cohen
Noga Cohen
Noga Cohen is a New York-based multidisciplinary artist and educator working across sculpture, installation, printmaking, textiles, and lens-based media. Her practice examines the intersections of body, trauma, and ecology, often using found and biodegradable materials. She has held residencies and fellowships with LMCC Arts Center, Governors Island (2025), the National Arts Club, AIM Bronx Museum, Artis Contemporary, and Centrum, and was a NYFA Immigrant Artist fellow. Cohen earned her MFA from Columbia University, where she received multiple fellowships and later taught. Her work has been widely exhibited across New York and featured in major contemporary art publications.
Website: https://nogacohen.com/
Affiliation: Collaborator
Summer Session #1
June 3 -June 21
Catwalk Institute proudly welcomes Samara Smith, an interdisciplinary artist whose participatory documentary projects transform storytelling into shared public experience through social practice, emerging technology, and community engagement.
Samara Smith
Samara Smith
Samara Smith is an interdisciplinary artist creating participatory documentary projects that rethink storytelling as shared, lived experience. Working across social practice, public space, and emerging technology, she invites audiences to become active participants, blurring distinctions between storyteller, subject, and viewer. Her projects unfold in parks, streets, and civic spaces, engaging place as a site of memory and exchange. Her VR documentary Virtual Aquapolis, supported by National Endowment for the Humanities grants, explores ecological change in New York Harbor. Smith has exhibited widely, worked in documentary film, and teaches at SUNY Old Westbury, where she co-founded the Media Innovation Center.
Website: https://samarasmith.com/
Affiliation: Collaborator
Summer Session #1
June 3 -June 21
Catwalk Institute proudly welcomes Deville Cohen, an interdisciplinary artist whose kinetic solar sculptures, installations, and performances explore collaboration, technology, and climate-conscious artistic practice.Deville Cohen
Deville Cohen