An artist and teacher for nearly 25 years, Deborah Rockman is currently a Professor of Art and coordinator of the undergraduate and graduate drawing programs at Kendall College of Art and Design. In 1992, she was the first woman and the youngest person ever to be awarded the rank of full professor in the history of Kendall College. Rockman's award-winning work in drawing, collage, and mixed media has been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions at venues throughout the United States, including ARC Gallery (Chicago), Artemisia Gallery (Chicago), Rockford Art Museum (IL), South Bend Museum of Art (IN), Cabrillo Gallery (CA), Peninsula Fine Arts Center (VA), Contemporary Arts Workshop (Chicago), and Ontario College of Art and Design (Canada).

Rockman has been awarded fellowships to a number of artists-in-residence programs, including The Radgale Foundation, The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Cummington Community for the Arts, Mary Anderson Center for the Arts, and The Vermont Studio Colony. She has lectured by invitation at national and international venues, including The Fifth Congress of the Americas in Puebla, Mexico, the 93rd Annual College Art Association (CAA) Conference in Atlanta, the 90th Annual CAA Conference in Philadelphia, the 83rd Annual CAA Conference in San Antonio, and the MAEA Statewide Conference in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She has been a visiting artist at Herron School of Art in Indianapolis, Elon University in North Carolina, and was recently honored as one of 100 Outstanding Art Alumni at Western Michigan University's Centennial Celebration.

In 2001, Rockman was honored with a twenty-year retrospective exhibition at Kendall College. In addition to her studio work, which explores relationships between the individual and contemporary postmodern culture, she is the author of a book about teaching art at the college level. Titled The Art of Teaching Art, her book was published by Oxford University Press in the fall of 2000, and is available at bookstores nationwide and on Amazon.com. Her book has been translated into Chinese and released in Mainland China.

Visit her web site at www.debrockman.com and see more of her work at www.visualpump.com.