Yana Dimitrova

Designing and teaching the following workshops and courses:

• Colour and Light - Intensive color theory, design, and art applications, including the psychology of color, production, and sourcing.
• Designing Community Murals - Intensive
• Lead instructor: Majal .02: "Design as Storytelling" 12-week design incubator program.

• Strategic Design and Management Program (BBA) Teaching the following courses
• Research and Development: Research and practices in design, managing creative teams.
• Regenerative Design Foundation - Studio.
• Paris Design Safari - Meeting artists and design practitioners in Paris.

• At the following affiliated New School Schools and Programs: School of Design Strategies (SDS), Parsons School of Design, The New School, New York, NY, Art, Media and Technology (AMT)
• Teaching: Integrative Studio1 and 2- First Year Program, core competencies introduced - intermediate drawing, visualizing, researching and making connections between theory and practice
• Integrated Design Studio 5 and 6 (Thesis Capstone Project) at BFA and BAFA Integrated Design Program (IDP)
• Integrated Design Studio 1 ( Core design skills based)
• Integrated Design Studio 2, 3 - Community centric, work defined with, by, and for a set of users
• Core concepts introduced- Design Thinking, Systems Thinking and Speculative Design
• NYC Design Safari - Meeting and working with designers in the field in New York
• First Year Program: Integrative Studio- interdisciplinary visual art studio course

• "Creative Justice" course focused on the intersection between art, design, and social spaces

• "Building Inclusive Design Cultures"

• Community mural project in collaboration with 4500 participants

• Management: hiring, training, and placing 30 faculty members, organizing course and room schedules, managing open studio hours and hiring lab assistants
• Advising BFA students
• Teaching: Perceptual Drawing, Colour and Light, Drawing as Research

• Community mural project with local hospital @ Sea View Hospital in Staten Island, New York

• Leading, designing and completing the production of over 20 large-scale community mural commissions with partners such as NYC Department of Transportation, the Red Hook Community Justice Center and Youth Court, the NYC Housing Authority (NYCHA), The NYC Department of Environmental Protection as well as numerous community and grass roots activist organisations

• Company Overview: in collaboration with the Santa Fe Art Institute
• In collaboration with the Santa Fe Art Institute

• Teaching: Drawing, Painting, Intermediate Painting, Introduction to Oil Painting