Valerie Eickmeier is an accomplished 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 art courses, professional practice for students, leading study abroad programs, 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 Sarasota, Florida and Carmel, Indiana.

Valerie Eickmeier’s work is also represented by Burns Gallery on Palm located at 80 S. Palm Ave., Sarasota, FL.