Ivory Nunez-Medrano

Community Artmaking Initiatives Coordinator

Ivory is a Teaching Artist who has been working in after-school and community art-making programs in New York City for more than 10 years. Prior to joining CAW, he worked as a Teaching Artist for Scribble Art Workshop, where he taught graphic design, sculpture, drawing, and painting to students in grades K–9; collaborated on redesigning curricula and prepared lesson plans; and trained and evaluated new staff. Prior to this, Ivory worked as a teaching artist at Lincoln Center, where he taught open art-making workshops, created lesson plans, and documented content for visual storytelling workshops.

Ivory holds an MFA in Visual Narrative from The School of Visual Arts. He maintains a personal art practice that includes traditional and digital painting, drawing and calligraphy. His work is influenced by his interest in oral history, graphic novels, and Caribbean folklore.