Victoria Christgen
Victoria Christgen
Associate Professor of Art
Phone
Location
Art Building
UPO
936
Tori Christgen is an interdisciplinary artist with a vibrant and ever-evolving practice
and relationship with the arts. She graduated, summa cum laude, from Missouri Western
State University with a B.F.A in Sculpture and M.F.A. in Studio Art at Maryland Institute
College of Art. Christgen’s experience in the arts, spans over 25 years, including
community art programs, theater set, and costume design, K-12, and higher education,
as well as a full career as a professional artist.
Christgen taught at MWSU, Saint Joseph, Missouri, as an Associate Professor of Art
and is currently at Campbellsville University.
She has been showcased in Better Homes and Gardens as well as extensively in group
and solo exhibitions in galleries and museums, nationwide as well as aboard. Illustration
clients include CVS Pharmacies.
You may find her photographing The Rockies or strolling the canals of Amsterdam withdrawing
students. Perhaps she’s in a Costa Rican jungle, studying the patterns of a giant
boa for her next hand-printed fabric collection, or on a tropical beach, recording
the sunrise. She might be designing a beautiful new mat, for her yoga students, or
exploring her new home state of Kentucky, with new students, friends, and peers. Wherever
you find her, she will be submerged in the community: creating and sharing her art.
Her multidisciplinary approach to art-making and her zest for life combine to form
passionate, vibrant works of art, that sit somewhere between fine art and street art,
memory and dream. Creating not only documents her adventures but helps connect her
friends, old and new.