The William Benton Museum of Art presents
Artist Talk: I Fly to You
with Monica Bock, Professor of Sculpture and Ceramic Art
Monica Bock is a sculptor, installation artist, and professor of art in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, where she renewed the metal fabrication and casting curriculum, then established the ceramic art program she now heads.
Image Credit: With Confidence in your Goodness (Cedar Waxwing) 2024 by Monica Bock. Anagama wood-fired and charcoal saggar-fired stoneware
A member of Soho20 Gallery in New York City from 2004 to 2016, she has also exhibited widely in venues that include Mobius in Boston, Real Art Ways in Hartford, Pittsburgh’s Mattress Factory, Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art, and Phantom Galleries L.A. in Long Beach. Her work has appeared internationally in Japan, Italy, and the UK, and her professional awards include an Arts Midwest/NEA Regional Visual Arts Fellowship, a Siena Art Institute Studio-Casa Residency, and her recent Musashino Art University Ceramics Research Fellowship in Tokyo. As a visiting artist she has presented her work at institutions including the New York Studio School, New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred, and the University of Chicago, and at professional conferences including the College Art Association and the National Council of Education for the Ceramic Arts.
Prof. Bock received her BA in Art and Art History from Oberlin College, then spent two years in Tokyo teaching English and studying Japanese language and culture as an Oberlin Shansi Association post-baccalaureate fellow, and a third year studying ceramics at Saga Art University in Kyoto. After returning to the U.S., she completed her BFA in Ceramics, her MFA in Sculpture, and course work and research for the MA in Art History Theory and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). She taught as an Adjunct Assistant Professor in SAIC’s Foundation Program for five years before accepting her full-time faculty position at the University of Connecticut in 1996.
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