Phipps Visiting Assistant Professor

The School of Art and Art History would like to welcome Rebecca Padilla-Pipkin as our Phipps Visiting Assistant Professor. Rebecca will be teaching Intro to Sculpture this Winter and a Special Topics course in the Spring.    

From the artist’s portfolio: “Rebecca Padilla-Pipkin is an interdisciplinary visual artist and educator living and working in Phoenix, Arizona. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Art from the University of Oklahoma and is currently pursuing a Master of Fine Art at Arizona State University. After moving to the United States at age 10, she has lived a transient life and is influenced by the many places she has loved. Her work explores themes of place-making, belonging, and transience through a wide variety of materials and processes. She grounds her practice in the words of anthropologist Tim Ingold, who says “The forms of objects are not imposed from above but grow from the mutual involvement of people and materials in an environment. -we work from within the world, not upon it”.  Ultimately, she strives to make work that deepens our understanding and love of place and each other.”