Zoé Strecker Transylvania University
Zoé Strecker is a visual artist, writer and studio art professor at Transylvania University where she teaches ceramics, contemporary concepts, advanced studio practices and a range of special topic courses at the intersection of art and ecological issues including “Confronting Climate Change as an Artist,” and “SITE: Creative and Intellectual Responses to Mountaintop Removal Mining.” She directs the university’s Creative Intelligence Program. Her commissioned sculptures, public and private, are located across the United States. She has published poetry, essays, and a travel book. She is the founding director of Wild Places Creative, an art and curatorial organization and is an advisor to the Board of the Kentucky Natural Lands Trust (KNLT). Zoé served for three years as the area editor for the visual and performing arts section of an academic journal, Cogent: Arts and Humanities. She has earned numerous awards and grants including Jones Grants for research and creative projects, two Al Smith Kentucky Arts Fellowships, grants from the Kentucky Foundation for Women for art projects and activist community engagement, two Bingham Teaching Awards at Transylvania, a Hermitage Artist Fellowship, and, in 2019, a Grinnell College Joseph F. Wall Alumni Service Award for her long-term art and community engagement project Lavish! Visit sites detailing her work and collaborations at: www.zoestrecker.us and www.wildplacescreative.com
Research Areas: studio Art, art and ecology, ceramics, sculpture, textiles, installation
Collaborative Interests: grant collaborations, guest lectures, public lectures, publications, research, cross-disciplinary curriculum development
