Nicole Haroutunian

Nicole Haroutunian is thrilled to join the Center for Arts Education as a teaching artist. She also works as a TA at Symphony Space, and as a museum educator at the Museum of the City of New York and at the Morgan Library and Museum. In the past, she has taught at the American Folk Art Museum, at the Noguchi Museum and in the Guggenheim's Learning Through Art program, among other places. She holds a BA in Studio Art from Vassar College and an MFA in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College. Her prints and drawings have been exhibited at the Brooklyn gallery Proteus Gowanus and her short fiction has appeared in several national and international journals; she is at work on a novel-in-stories. She is co-editor of the digital arts journal Underwater New York, which publishes writing, art and music inspired by real-life objects found in the waterways of NYC. Through Underwater New York, she has curated art shows and artist talks, hosted literary readings and events, thrown parties on once-sunken ships and led guided explorations of the city's most far-out shores.