Becky Alley is an artist, curator, creative collaborator and educator. Her artwork is process and materials focused, often manifesting itself in private or intimate
performance elements and installations that are never really finished. Themes of enduring interest are ritual, memorial, empathy, decay, and the sacred. She loves collaboration and, through her creative work, is particularly interested in expanding the roles of self-reflection and meaning in everyday life.
Alley earned her BFA in Printmaking/Drawing from Washington University (2000) and her MFA in Studio Art from the University of Kansas (2005). Since completing her
studies, she has exhibited her work both nationally and internationally, has worked as a gallery/exhibitions director in university and non-profit galleries, and has taught courses including drawing, professional practices, exhibition practicum, and gallery/curatorial studies. She has curated dozens of exhibitions, designed and implemented a variety of community based arts programming, and led a number of public lectures and discussions regarding art and art-making. In 2017 she was named the inaugural Kentucky Fellow as a finalist in Southern Prize, and was also awarded a travel grant from the Great Meadows Foundation to research the gendered aesthetics of war memorials and monuments. She is currently the Bolivar Gallery Director at the University of Kentucky.
performance elements and installations that are never really finished. Themes of enduring interest are ritual, memorial, empathy, decay, and the sacred. She loves collaboration and, through her creative work, is particularly interested in expanding the roles of self-reflection and meaning in everyday life.
Alley earned her BFA in Printmaking/Drawing from Washington University (2000) and her MFA in Studio Art from the University of Kansas (2005). Since completing her
studies, she has exhibited her work both nationally and internationally, has worked as a gallery/exhibitions director in university and non-profit galleries, and has taught courses including drawing, professional practices, exhibition practicum, and gallery/curatorial studies. She has curated dozens of exhibitions, designed and implemented a variety of community based arts programming, and led a number of public lectures and discussions regarding art and art-making. In 2017 she was named the inaugural Kentucky Fellow as a finalist in Southern Prize, and was also awarded a travel grant from the Great Meadows Foundation to research the gendered aesthetics of war memorials and monuments. She is currently the Bolivar Gallery Director at the University of Kentucky.