Mary Apikos taught at Parsons School of Design NYC for 17 years. She taught inter disciplinary courses about the intersection of social history and design that fell through the cracks to people who fell through the cracks. She is ABD in Cultural Anthropology from CUNY Graduate Center and has worked as an ethnographic textile conservator at the Museum of the American Indian, George Heye Foundation NYC and in private practice where she specialized in the care of sacred materials. In 2022 Mary completed a one-year remote applied arts program at the Centre for Applied Jungian Studies in South Africa. Mary lives in Chicago. She teaches the course “Fairy Tales as Cultural Discourse” at the NYC Jung Foundation and is on the staff of The London Arts Based Research Centre.