Novak’s collaborative Web project , 1996-present, exploring how family photographs shape our memory was one of the earliest interactive storytelling sites. Her work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions, is included in many Museum permanenet collections, and she is the recipient of a 2016 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Photography among many other awards. She is also Director and Founder of Future Imag emakers a social practice project at NYU Photography & Imaging, offering free digital photography classes to NYC area high school students.

She is Professor of Photography & Imaging at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University and Associate Faculty at The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics. Lorie Novak is an New York City based artist whose photographs, installations, and Internet projects use various technologies of representation to explore issues of memory and transmission, the relationship between the intimate and the public, and the shifting cultural meanings of photographs. Her most recent project entailed curating a special issue on artistic activism for the journal, Visual Inquiry: Learning and Teaching Art (2017). Among her awards, she received the Studies Lecture Award for scholarly contribution to art education, Specialist Fulbright Award and the Ziegfield Service Award for contribution to International Art Education. She is the co-editor of Social Justice and the Arts book published by Taylor and Francis and her co-authored book History as Art, Art as History: Contemporary Art and Social Studies Education received an Honorable mention for Curriculum Practice Category by Division B of American Education and Research Association (AERA). She has published widely in the area of critical multiculturalism/critical race theory in art education, contemporary art as a pedagogical site, critical pedagogy and artistic activism. As a scholar and artist-educator her work addresses the intersection between visual art, activism, and critical pedagogy. Dipti Desai is Associate Professor and Director of the Graduate Art + Education Programs at New York University, USA.

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