- ceckert@uwm.edu
- Mitchell Hall 329
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Corrigan Eckert
- Lecturer, Painting & Drawing
- Lecturer, First Year Program
Education
- MFA, Studio Art - Printmaking, Paper Arts, & Narrative Forms, UW-Milwaukee, 2026
- BFA, Studio Art - Painting & Drawing, Earlham College, 2016
Biography
Corrigan Eckert is an environmental artist and her practice explores relationships between community, stewardship, and the Midwestern landscape. Through the use of drawing, paper arts, painting, and various printmaking processes, Eckert creates art pieces that consider her deepening relationship with the land.
Eckert’s art practice includes mindful walking, the gathering of natural items, photographs, videos, and audio recordings, as well as nature writing. Modalities which allow her to reflect on her experiences of the natural world and create works that encourage conversations about conservation and land stewardship.
Eckert received her undergraduate degree in visual art with a focus on painting from Earlham College in 2016, and her Masters in Fine Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2026.
Corrigan exhibits work across the midwest, her recent exhibitions include the “Crossroads” exhibition at The House of RAD, Walker’s Point Center for the Arts “Member’s Show,” and Gallery 224’s “Flight Paths & Foot Paths.” As a curator she has worked on multiple group exhibitions, such as “Perspectives: a study through lithography” in 2025 and “Brushwork: UWM painting survey” in 2024. Eckert also creates public artworks, and gathers experiences at artist residencies and workshops to gain technical skills. She is currently an Artist-in-Residence for Gallery 224’s ART Servancy program in Port Washington, WI where she is researching Wisconsin birds at the Riveredge Nature Center.
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Recent & Selected Works
