Faculty & Admin

Collaborative Arts BFA/Open Arts Program Full Time Faculty

Collaborative Arts BFA/Open Arts Program full-time faculty are professional artists and scholars from across artistic disciplines who are committed to bringing hands-on arts courses, specialized seminars, collaborative interdisciplinary workshops, and arts studies courses to students. They design and implement curriculum, teach both core required and elective courses, and act as mentors for our Collaborative Arts Majors.

Faculty Resources

Ithai Benjamin

Chair, Associate Arts Professor
Steven Drukman

Director, Associate Arts Professor
Gustavo Aguilar

Assistant Arts Professor
Mary Bitel

Associate Arts Professor
Rebecca Haimowitz

Assistant Arts Professor
Patricia Hoffbauer

Assistant Arts Professor
Peter Terezakis

Associate Arts Professor
Bill Tunnicliffe

ASSOCIATE ARTS PROFESSOR

Administrators & Staff

Sarah Ryndak

Administrative Director
Zhuojie Chen

Manager of Faculty Services
Max DeGeorge

Manager of Student Services
Jori Johnson

Administrative Aide

Open Arts Program Faculty

Open Arts Program faculty teach courses that are open to all majors at NYU. These multi-disciplinary courses are either practical training or studies/humanities courses in which students engage with each other from different majors across the University to explore various forms of art. These vibrant classrooms are essential to the breadth of artistic study in the Collaborative Arts BFA are required elective classes for Collaborative Arts majors.