Thomas Cahill and Alison Scott-Williams with Amei Wallach

Thomas Cahill is the President of Studio Institute. He has devoted his professional life to the art of teaching art, working with hundreds of visual artists at Studio in a School where he served as the first Executive Director. Under Cahill’s leadership, Studio Institute shares tested innovations, visual arts curricula, classroom program models, professional development models, arts internships, research grants, and assessment methods with arts and educational communities nationwide. Cahill received his BFA in Painting from the School of Visual Arts and an MA, Arts and Humanities Education, from New York University, Steinhardt School of Education. In May of 2008, Cahill received an Honorary Doctorate Degree from Pratt Institute.

Alison Scott-Williams is the President of Studio in a School. Previously, she was Vice President of Arts Education for The New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC). Alison is an arts education leader with a commitment to cultivating talent in emerging artists and building community. Alison was a participant in the American Express Leadership Institute and holds a Master of Science in Higher Education Administration from Baruch College, Master of Music in Voice Performance from the Manhattan School of Music, and Master of Arts in Opera Theater and Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance from Oberlin Conservatory.

Amei Wallach is an art critic and filmmaker. Her documentary film portrait, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: Enter Here, debuted at New York’s Film Forum and the Moscow Biennale in Fall, 2013. She is the author of Ilya Kabakov: The Man Who Never Threw Anything Away (Abrams, 1996), the first monograph on the artist. She has contributed to publications as as The New York Times Magazine, The Nation, Art in America, and ArtNews. With the late Marion Cajori, she co-directed the internationally acclaimed documentary Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, The Mistress and The Tangerine. She is also founding program director of The Art Writing Workshop and an Editor-at-Large at the Rail.