Biography
Alicia Eggert was born in New Jersey in 1981, and spent her early childhood living in Cape Town, South Africa, where her parents were missionaries during the apartheid. She earned a bachelors degree in interior design from Drexel University in Philadelphia, and studied architecture and design in Denmark, Sweden and Finland with the University of Copenhagen's international program. She lived and worked in New York City for several years, both as a freelance interior designer and as a project manager at a small architectural firm, before leaving the field to focus on her art practice. She received her MFA in Sculpture/Dimensional Studies from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, where was employed for one year as an Adjunct Instructor. She is now an Assistant Professor of Art at Bowdoin College in Maine.
