After teaching nine-years in the Mid-Atlantic region, Shaila Christofferson recently returned to the Midwest in 2007 to accept the position of Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Design at Chicago State University.

Shaila Christofferson received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of South Dakota, and in December of 1997, she received her Master of Fine Arts degree in Sculpture from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Working with a wide variety of sculpture media, Christofferson’s work examines material culture and the contemporary landscape. Through selection of forms and materials, and she attempts to elicit associations of familiar objects, thereby commenting on the tenuous nature of the constructed environment.

She has won several grants and awards for her work, and has been exhibited widely. Grants include a George Sugarman Foundation Individual Artist Grant and a State of West Virginia Fellowship Grant for Individual Artists.

Christofferson was also selected to participate in the Creative Capital Foundation Professional Development Workshop in conjunction with the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation in Baltimore, MD. Recent exhibition venues include the Sheldon Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN, Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, KS, West Virginia Cultural Center, Charleston, WV, Plano Art Centre, Plano, TX, Art Center of Northern New Jersey, Milford, NJ and La Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris France.