#97-02-02
For Release: 2-3-97
Contact: Peter Bailley

Victoria Christen, assistant professor of art at Knox College, will exhibit her ceramic works from February 21 through March 14 in the Gallery of the Ford Center for Fine Arts, Knox College. A free, public reception will be held at 7 p.m., Friday, Feb. 21 in the Ford Center Gallery.

The show will include ceramic wall masks, pots, and functional and sculptural pieces.

In 1996, Christen was awarded a Knox College Faculty Initiative Grant to present an exhibit of her work in Sendai, Japan, and to study at the Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park Center. Her work also was included in the exhibition "Handle, Spout, Story, Shrine: Ceramic Artist/Professor" at the Richards Hall Gallery at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.

Christen received her master of fine arts degree from University of Minnesota in 1987. Before joining the Knox faculty in 1995 she taught art at Macalester College.

Founded in 1837, Knox is an independent, four-year, liberal arts college, located in Galesburg, Illinois, with 1,100 students from 42 states and 33 nations. Knox's "Old Main," a National Historic Landmark, is the only building remaining from the 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates.