Tori Christgen
Associate Professor of Art, Campbellsville University
Director, Pence Chowning Gallery
https://www.torichristgen.com/
EDUCATION:
-MFA, Studio Art 2012-2015
Maryland Institute College of Art
Summa Cum Laude Graduate
-BFA, Studio Art 2008-2012
Missouri Western State University
Summa Cum Laude Graduate
EXHIBITIONS RECORD
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 -Memories for Wondering Souls
Coloring Book Pop-Up
Saint Joseph, Missouri.
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
2021 -10 Years in the Making
Mad Potter Studio
Weston, Missouri
-McCoy, Fall Fabric Launch and Exhibition
Pence Chowning Gallery
Campbellsville, Kentucky
2020 -Pura Vida, Pandemic Pandemonium
Tamarindo, Costa Rica
2018 -Nana’s Lace Revisited
Red Door Gallery
Kansas City, Missouri
2017 -Thistles and Magpies Pop-Up
Room in the Back Gallery
Lawrence, Kansas
2016 -Inca Interpretations
Campbellsville University
Campbellsville, Kentucky
-Badass Betties Pop-Up
Foster's Lounge
Saint Joseph, Missouri
-Tori Christgen
Yost Gallery, Highland Community College
Highland Kansas
2015 Moments
Mad Potter Studio
Weston, Missouri
-Better Block Pop Up
Saint Joseph, Missouri
-Ladies in Wisteria
Paradox Gallery
Saint Joseph, Missouri
2014 Amalgamations
Paradox Gallery
Saint Joseph, Missouri
- Flocking and Sorting
Cotty College for Women
Nevada, Missouri
2012 Layers
Craft Gallery, University of Missouri
Columbia, Missouri
2011 Tori Christgen
Foster’s
Saint Joseph, Missouri
INVATIATIONS/JURIED/GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Kick off the Derby
Governor’s Artist
Frankfort, Kentucky
-PHASES: Celestial Stories
Paint Cahoes Gallery
Cohes, New York
-Matriarch Reload; We Mother the Earth
Chestnut and Pearls Art Gallery
New Albany, Indiana
2024 -Stitched Together
Pence Chowing Art Gallery
Campbellsville, Kentucky
-ReFabricating the Forgotten- Alpha Rho Tau
Pence Chowning Art Gallery
Campbellsville, Kentucky
2023 International Fair Photo Exhibition & Contest
(2) 2nd place awarded
Campbellsville University
-Community Art Exhibition
Primrose on Main
Campbellsville, Kentucky
-Green Country Art Council Depot Exhibition
Greensburg, Kentucky
-Light Work
Pence Chowning Art Gallery y
Campbellsville, Kentucky
-Cognoscenti
Pence Chowning Art Gallery
Campbellsville, Kentucky
-Nuditas 2023
Exhibizone Smart Exhibitions & Biafarin Artist Magazine
-Elements (Earth, Water, Air, Fire, X)
Exhibizone Smart Exhibitions & Biafarin Artist Magazine
2022 Parts and Labor
Pence Chowing Art Gallery
Campbellsville, Kentucky
2021 October Plein Air Exhibition, 3rd place awarded
Plein Air Salon
-Portals and Pathways
International Trucking Service Gallery
Saint Joseph, Missouri
-The All Women Exhibition
Contemporary Art Gallery
2020 Contemporary Watercolor Artist- 1st place awarded
Art House Gallery
-Created in Isolation
Light Space Time Gallery
2019 Prints with Power
Prints of Today International
Coleen, Italy
-Fems of Fiber
Golden Thread Gallery
2018 Juried Member Exhibition- 2nd and 3rd Places granted
Albrecht Kemper Museum of Art,
Saint Joseph, Missouri
-Perspectives
Albricht Kemper Museum of Art
Saint Joseph, Missouri
2017 -Nufelibata
Union Street Gallery
Kokomo, Indiana
-Post Cards Revisited
Albricht Kemper Museum of Art
Saint Joseph, Missouri
2016 -Applefest Artist
Weston, Missouri
-Tori Christgen & Dana Rudolf
Yost Gallery, Highland Community College
Highland, Kansas
-Left Behind
The Olive Gallery, Saint Joseph, Missouri
2015 MWSU Alumni Show
Missouri Western State University
Saint Joseph, Missouri
-Applefest Artist
Weston, Missouri
-MICA Graduate Show 2015
Decker Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art
Baltimore, Maryland
2014 Art at the Center,
The Abstract Exhibition
Tomahawk Ridge Center
Overland Park, Kansas
-Shift
Dana Rudolph and Tori Christgen
Paradox Gallery
-Faculty Exhibition
Missouri Western State University
Saint Joseph, Missouri
-First Saturdays
Paradox Gallery
Saint Joseph, Missouri
-Patrick Larsen & Tori Christgen
R. Macy Jewelry, Gallery
Weston Missouri
-MICA Graduate Student Show
Maryland Institute College of Art
Baltimore, Maryland
ARTIST IN RESIDENCY
-Gibraltar Point, Toronto, Canada, June 2025
-South Porch Artist Residency, Summerville, South Carolina,
June 2024
-Loretto Motherhouse, Loretto Kentucky, May 2024
-Mad Potter Studio, Weston, Missouri 2021
-Finca de Flora, Paraiso, Costa Rica 2020
-Pura Vita, Tamarindo, Costa Rica 2020
-Robidoux Resident Theatre, Saint Joseph, Missouri 2017
-Campbellsville University, Campbellsville, Kentucky 2016
-Map Pottery Studio, Weston, Missouri 2015
-Cutty College, Nevada, Missouri 2014
-MWSU, Saint Joseph, Missouri 2012
CURATORIAL
2025 Limelight on the Arts
Pence Chowning Art Gallery
Campbellsville, Kentucky
-Creative Collaboration of Devotion
Collaboration Dr. Loida Pineda
Gheens Recital Hall
-Student Juried Art Show
Pence Chowning Art Gallery
Campbellsville, Kentucky
-Motherhood; Maranda Fowler
Pence Chowning Art Gallery
Campbellsville, Kentucky
2024 -Firework Trapped in a Box; Catrina Higgs
Pence Chowning Art Gallery
Campbellsville, Kentucky
-Library Perspectives, Drawing Student Pop-Up
Montgomery Library
Campbellsville, Kentucky
-Street Light Dreams
Pence Chowning Art Gallery
Campbellsville, Kentucky
-Earth Day ReFabricating the Forgotten
Campbellsville University
-Sing Out, My Soul!
Collaboration Dr. Loida Pineda
Gheens Recital Hall
Campbellsville University
-ReFabricating the Forgotten- Alpha Rho Tau
Pence Chowning Art Gallery
Campbellsville, Kentucky
2023 Light Work: Sculptural Light Exhibition
Pence Chowning Art Gallery
Campbellsville, Kentucky
-Things that Never Die: Collaboration Dr. Loida Pineda
Gheens Recital Hall
Campbellsville, Kentucky
-Starfall: Collaboration with Dr. Chad Floyd
Gheens Recital Hall
Campbellsville, Kentucky
2022 -Six: Collaboration with Dr. Chad Floyd
Gheens Recital Hall
Campbellsville, Kentucky
- Watercolors
Ransdell Chapel
Campbellsville, Kentucky
- Lindsey Bailey
Pence Chowning Art Gallery
Campbellsville, Kentucky
-Library Perspectives, Pop-Up Exhibition
Montgomery Library
Campbellsville, Kentucky
-Interior/Exterior, Pop-Up Exhibition
Montgomery Library
Campbellsville, Kentucky
2021 -Plien Air Memories: Paintings of Taylor County
Pence Chowning Art Gallery
Campbellsville, Kentucky
-Homecoming Pride, Painting Student Pop-Up
CU Art Cabin
Campbellsville, Kentucky
-Library Perspectives, Drawing Student Pop-Up Exhibition
Montgomery Library
Campbellsville, Kentucky
POSITIONS HELD
-Associate Professor, Campbellsville University, Campbellsville, Kentucky (2024-present)
-Pence Chowning Gallery Director (2024-present)
-Assistant Professor, Campbellsville University, Campbellsville, Kentucky (2021-2024)
-Assistant Professor, Missouri Western State University, Saint Joseph, MO (2016-2019)
-Adjunct Professor, Missouri Western State University, St. Joseph, Mo (2012-2016)
-Studio Assistant, Sculptor Brent Collins
-Artistic Director, Dancing In Grace, St. Joseph, MO (2008-2013)
-Foundry Technician /TA, Missouri Western State University, St. Joseph, MO (2010-2012)
-Tutor and Mentor, Coleman Elementary, St. Joseph, MO (2008-2010)
-Illustrator, CVS Pharmacy, St. Joseph, MO (2009)
WORKSHOPS TAUGHT
-Journal & Book Making, Art Club 2024
-Glue Batik, Sunday Fun Day Workshops, 2023
-Plushie, Sunday Fun Day Workshops, 2023
-Mystery Molds, Sunday Clay Fun Day Workshops, 2023
-Screenprinting Clay, Sunday Clay Fun Day Workshops, 2023
-Southern Women in the Art, Contemporary Plein Air, 2022
-Mad Potter, Screenprinting on Clay, 2021
-Pura Vita, Lace Printing, 2020
-Artscape, ink It Up, Direct Printing 2019
-Artscape, Basket weaving 2018
-Inca Interpretations Alternative Printmaking 2016
-National Conference of Undergraduate Research-Establishing a System of Green Sand Casting 2014
-Conference on Applied Learning in Higher Education-Fiscally and Ecologically Responsible Metal Casting Methods. 2012
SERVICE & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
-Faculty Learning Community- Course Rebuild
Campbellsville University
-Find Your Legacy, Art & Chapel Collaboration
Campbellsville University
-Cheatham Center Advisory Council, Campbellsville University
-Health and Wellness Council, Campbellsville University
-Taylor Country Middle School Career Day Volunteer
-Course Rebuild, Faculty Learning Committee.
-Talent Judge, International Fair, Campbellsville University
-Presenter; Establishing Mutually Beneficial Collaborations within the Arts
AC Summit, Knoxville, Tennessee
-Wellness Committee- Earth Day Festival
Campbellsville University
-Wellness Committee- Earth Day Yoga
Campbellsville University
- Art Club Faculty Cosponsor, Campbellsville University
Wellness Committee- Earth Day Meditation & Sound
Campbellsville University
-Keyboard Kaleidoscope
Music & Visual Art Collaboration
Randsdell Chapel
Campbellsville University
-Women’s History Month Lecture
Campbellsville University
-Wellness Committee Harbinger of Spring Walk
Campbellsville University
-Exhibition Judge, Lincoln Days Art Show
Hodgenville, Kentucky
-Talent Judge, International Fair, Campbellsville University
-Enhancing Community Engagement Committee
Campbellsville University
-Wellness Committee
Campbellsville University
- Cheatham Center Advisory Council
Campbellsville University
-Takeo Orphanage Drawing-
United States Embassy partnership
Takeo, Cambodia
-Lindsey Bailey/CU Educational Collaboration
workshops, class instruction, artist talk
-Unmasking Memorial, Campbellsville University
Campbellsville, Kentucky
-Watercolor: Art & Design Collaboration with Woodwinds
Ransdell Chapel, Campbellsville University, Campbellsville, Kentucky
-Artist Thrive Conference, Winston Salem, North Carolina
-Art Day Volunteer/Painting Room Coordinator, Missouri Western State University
-Enhancing Community Relationships Committee, Campbellsville University
- 200 Hour Yogi Certification
PUBLICATIONS
-Russell Creek Review, Selected Artist 2025 & 2024
- Campbellsville Review 2022, Cover Artist
- Campbellsville University https://www.campbellsville.edu/news/campbellsville-university-art-professor-introducing-fall-fabric-line-launch-and-exhibition-until-oct-1/
- https://www.campbellsville.edu/campus-life/campus-resources/faculty/victoria-christgen/
-Better Homes and Gardens, Do It Yourself, 01/21 Issue
-Art House Gallery-https://arthouseonlinegallery.com/art/artist-christgen-tori-artwork-authentic-breakfast/
-The Hand Magazine, Featured Artist: https://thehandmagazine.net
-St Joseph News Presshttps://www.stjosephpost.com/2016/02/06/first-saturday-includes-printmaking-exhibit-in-downtown-st-joseph/
-Hiawatha World https://www.hiawathaworldonline.com/news/christgen-rudolph-artwork-coming-to-yost-art-gallery/article_d7120ca0-10a8-52cd-9adb-8f83bca80c22.html
-MICA https://libguides.mica.edu/mfast
-Campbellsville University https://www.campbellsville.edu/news/missouri-artist-exhibits-printmaking-at-campbellsville-university/
-AKMA https://albrecht-kemper.org/exhibitions/2019-akma-membership-exhibition-call-for-artwork/
-MICA https://mfastblog.wordpress.com/class-of-2015/
AWARDS & HONORS
QEP Grant recipient, Campbellsville University, 2024
(2) Faculty Development Grant, Campbellsville University, 2024
(2) 2nd place awarded, International Fair Photo Exhibition & Contest, Campbellsville University
George Howell Earth Stewardship Club Awards, 2023
Facility Development Grant, Campbellsville University, 2023
WEL Grant recipient, Campbellsville University, 2023
QEP Grant recipient, Campbellsville University, 2022
WEL Grant recipient, Campbellsville University, 2022
3rd place awarded- October Plein Air Exhibition
1st place awarded- Watercolor Artist, Art House Gallery
2nd and 3rd places awarded, Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, Saint Joseph, Missouri
MFA Studio Art Academic Scholarship
Graduated Summa Cum Laude, Missouri Western State University
Dean’s List eight semesters
Presidential Honor Roll eight semesters
John & Mary Veoski Art Scholarship
Blake K. Scanlon Applied Learning Presentation Grant
Student Excellence Fund
Best of Show awarded, MWSU Senior Exhibition
Now featured;
PHASES: Celestial Stories
Paint Cahoes Gallery
Cohes, New York