Wendy Woon is an artist, educator, facilitator, and mentor with over 35 years of innovative leadership experience in progressively high-profile contemporary art institutions in the United States and Canada. She is currently a lecturer at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. She also held the Edward John Noble Foundation Deputy Director for Education position at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2006-2020). Woon has been an adjunct instructor in the Visual Art Administration Graduate Programs at New York University for over 10 years, exploring imaginative, experimental, and engaging forms of pedagogy in classes to impart these collaborative methods to future art leaders, who will evolve the ways art museums fulfill their educational missions. Woon is a highly regarded thinker featured in public conversations in Europe, Asia, Latin America, and the Americas, most recently in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and Santa Fe, New Mexico. She considers art a vital catalyst that connects people across differences, a rich source for people to learn from and with each other, and a means to foster empathy.
The artists’ book movement in Mexico evolved as a “direct consequence of many complex circumstances in keeping with the mood of the times,” according to Felipe Ehrenberg, an artist, writer, and neologist. Upon Ehrenberg’s return from…
