Carolin Rechberg
Website: carolinrechberg.com
Country: Germany
Carolin Rechberg, born in Starnberg, Germany, is a female artist specializing in the importance of cognitive and sensory learning, initiated through the encounter of the artistic process. Through gathering 25 years of first-hand experience in primary, secondary, and tertiary, art, craft, and design education, as well as through her career as a professional artist and art educator. After specializing in Art and Design, in the IGCSE and IB, at the Munich International School, she continued her international education in the United States. She attained an Individualized BFA from the California College of the Arts, an MFA in Painting from the San Francisco Art Institute, and an M.Ed. in Art and Art Education from Teachers College, Columbia University. Rechberg has taught Drawing and Painting as a Teaching Assistant in her 1st Master at the San Francisco Art Institute, and Etching, Lithography, Silkscreen and Woodcut during her 2nd Master at Teachers College. Simultaneously to completing her education she managed the Printmaking Studios at Teachers College and facilitated, individual instruction of adult students, and assisted in workshops. Rechberg states that “Alerting the senses through creating, is an opportunity to ground in the present moment. The art process, and the artwork, is a vehicle to harness instinct, stimulate creativity and gather awareness, information, and insight, emerging through heightened sense perception, in the communion with art, being in presence and nature.” Rechberg’s interdisciplinary body of work comprises of drawing, installation, painting, performance, poetry, photography, printmaking, sculpture, and sonic voice-work.