Creative Classrooms

STAFF
Who We Are | Who We Serve | Message from the Director

Mark LaRiviere, Director, has worked with students and teachers in the New York City schools since 1987. In 1997, he spearheaded an assessment of the art programs in the inner city parochial schools that led to the creation of CCVAP, and from that point on served as director of the program. Mark oversaw the creation of the Studio Art Program, the Staff Development Program, the Art Institute, and – during the 2001-2002 school year – the Museum Program. In addition to finding and training new art instructors, Mark is responsible for facilitating communication among the instructors during the year. Mark also worked with the New York Catholic Schools Interdiocesan Curriculum Committee to develop our “Essential Learnings for Art” curriculum.

As well as piloting the Staff Development Program and Portfolio Assessment Program for the Studio in a School Association, he has been a resident artist in P.S. 97 in the Bronx for the past eleven years and has taught in the Foundation Department at Parsons School of Design. Mark has conducted many in-school workshops on topics such as designing child centered art lessons, connecting art making with museum resources and visits, and giving parent/child workshops.

Lynn Seeney, Artist/Mentor, Art Staff Development and Museum Program, has been an art staff developer in Archdiocesan schools since 1998. She has worked closely with teachers in dozens of CCVAP schools, helping them incorporate art into the curriculum and design art-based lessons for their classrooms. In 2001-2002, she piloted the Museum Program in two schools.

Prior to joining CCVAP, Lynn worked with the Museum of Modern Art’s Family Program teaching students in elementary through high school and their parents art history in the museum setting. She lectured on current exhibitions and the permanent collection, lead discussions, and developed hands-on projects with her students. She also served as the Executive Director of the Bronx River Art Center from 1991 through 1995 and before that as the Executive Director of COLAB, a nonprofit artist-operated organization that secures grants and organizes educational productions and exhibitions.

**OUR ART INSTRUCTORS**
Cathy Depasquale Melanie Ende Sara Fendelman Elizabeth Foster Anthony Fuller Michelle Goguen John Nguyen Elizabeth Lazarus Kathleen Lee Irva Mandelbaum	John Mejias Bill Moakler Janice Nowinski Gabriel Pacheco Michelle Rivas Rayanon Smith Sunny Soe Cheryl Solomon Evelyn Suarez Natalie Wood