Instructors

Kate Clark co-develops projects that reimagine how social and topographic landscapes are interpreted through performance, video, and curated programs. Working collaboratively, Clark has created projects with many communities and specialists including park rangers, customs agents, geologists, historians, construction workers, archivists, dancers, anthropologists, and priests. Clark is director of Parkeology, a California Arts Council supported public art series about lesser known sites, stories, and senses of urban parks. Clark has served as a research fellow at Provisions Library for Arts and Social Change and at the Hirshhorn Museum and sculpture garden. In 2009, Clark co-founded Knowledge Commons DC. She was an Urbanisms of Inclusion fellow at IUAV di Venezia and received her MFA at UC San Diego.

Megan Miraglia played varsity chess in high school and is always looking for opponents in the D.C. area, even if she has to teach them herself. She works at National Wildlife Federation, is a lab associate at the University of Maryland, and is writing a chess guide for girls.