Are you interested in a career in the visual arts? Please join us Tuesday, Feb. 2nd at 6 PM EST for a virtual Q&A panel featuring alumni who are currently working and studying in the visual arts field. To register for the event and submit questions for our panelists, please click here.

Meet our Panelists

Soon Ju Kim​ is a New York based data/tech/moving image driven storyteller, aiming to spread light of the unheard. Born in Korea and raised in Silicon Valley, she draws from her Asian immigrant culture along with immersive technology-driven environment experiences. After moving to New York post completion of mathematics and art/design studies, Soon Ju continues to write screenplays, investigate bias in the data/tech field, work on moving image projects, and consciously reflect to be a better ally for communities.

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Scarlett H. Strauss is a fourth-year PhD student in Italian Renaissance art history at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts. She is currently exploring potential dissertation topics related to 15th century painting, and eventually hopes to become an art history professor. Some of the highlights of her graduate experience include participating in an archaeological dig in Sicily, working with a conservation team to catalogue artworks at NYU’s Villa La Pietra in Florence, and teaching undergraduates both in New York and abroad. When not researching or teaching, she can be found attempting to weather the pandemic through a variety of creative pursuits, ranging from fiction writing to Irish dance.

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Amey Yun Zhang is an artist, designer, and scholar with a background in ecology, evolutionary biology, and comparative cognition. She is interested in how scientific information influences our cultural understanding of who we are and how we relate to the world, and how those stories shape the futures we are able to imagine. She is currently creative lead at Editing Nature, an organization exploring the ethics of gene-editing wild species, and is collaborating with an anthropologist on a graphic narrative about the perception of God. She will be studying for a Master’s at University of Oxford in cognitive and evolutionary anthropology in 2021.

Amey frequently works in multimedia storytelling and science communication, and some of her work can be found online at ameyyunzhang.com.