Pomerantz has been a visiting assistant professor, lecturer, and critic at Haverford College, University of Pennsylvania, Moore College of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the School of Visual Arts. Pomerantz teaches studio classes, writing based seminars, critique, and interdisciplinary hybrid courses. Pomerantz holds a Masters in Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, in addition to an MFA and BA. Pomerantz is engaged in liberatory pedagogy, site-focused and interdisciplinary learning.
MATTERS
Pomerantz is the founder of MATTERS, an arts education initiative connecting artists and designers to materials, materials to labor and land, creating groundwork for creative practice rooted in awareness, care and repair.
MATTERS ran as a pilot course at the University of Pennsylvania in Spring 2023— more information below and here: PRESS FOR MATTERS
MATTERS: Connecting Arts + Design to Materials, and Materials to Labor + Land
"It matters what matters we use to think other matters with..."- Donna Haraway
MATTERS is a site-based art + design studio/seminar course connecting learners to where materials come from and where they "go", laying groundwork for creative practice rooted in social and ecological awareness, repair and care.
This course was made possible by the Sachs Program for Arts Innovation at the University of Pennsylvania curricular support grant.
Site partners + guests included RAIR Philly, the Penn Materials Library, Historic Rittenhouse Town, Asian Arts Initiative, Narendra Haynes, Orkan Telhan, Nicole Dupree/Ampersand Textile, Julia Norton Studio, FabScrap, Remark Glass, Kristen Neville Taylor Studio, and the Bayshore Center at Bivalve.
