David Herman Jr. is a lens-based exhibiting artist, educator and scholar whose work explores the relations between the perceptual and the social as a political endeavor. His research and scholarly interests are grounding in a belief that the social is inherently political and that arts education provides distinct and critical opportunities to engage and understand the affective nature of social life and the being with difference. Herman’s current work seeks to understand the perceptual experiences of preadolescents through a phenomenological framework he refers to as the Perceptual Rite of...

Carol Royer is a practicing artist with more than 20 years of experience in arts education and administration. She has taught and managed programs at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Barnes Foundation, and has created a wide range of interdisciplinary projects for schools as a teaching artist across the Philadelphia region.

MSEd, Bank Street College of Education and Parsons School of Design
BFA, Moore College of Art and Design

Jennie Shanker is a Philadelphia-based artist engaged in social practice, community arts and labor and social justice activism. She is interested in generating space for access, information, dialogue and understanding, as well as examining contentious current events where reductive, ideological and political stances have degraded the potential for important, nuanced discussions.

MFA, Yale University School of Art
MAT, University of the Arts
BFA, Philadelphia College of Art