Valerie Eickmeier

Valerie Eickmeier is a studio artist, Dean Emerita, and Professor Emerita at the Herron School of Art
and Design, Indiana University, Indianapolis. She served many roles throughout her 39-year career at
Herron, including teaching studio fine arts courses and serving as the dean from 1998 to 2018.
She earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from Washington University in St. Louis in 1982 and a
Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1979.
Eickmeier’s career encompasses numerous visiting artist lectures, private and corporate
commissions, and more than 60 gallery and museum exhibitions. She received many prestigious
awards including two special project grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, two Creative
Renewal Fellowships from the Arts Council of Indianapolis, an Individual Artist Fellowship from the
Indiana Arts Commission, and six Arts and Humanities Research Grants from Indiana University, which
were funded by the Lilly Endowment.
She currently lives and maintains studios in Carmel, Indiana and Sarasota, Florida.