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Debra Kopp­man earned her MA at the Uni­ver­sity of Cal­i­for­nia, Berke­ley, and her doc­tor­ate in Stu­dio Arts at New York Uni­ver­sity.  She has served in fac­ulty posi­tions in Mex­ico and Nicaragua, where she taught art and devel­oped cur­ric­ula.  Her research into mul­ti­cul­tural aes­thet­ics has taken her to Guatemala, Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru, Brazil, Spain, Por­tu­gal, Israel, India, Thai­land and Turkey.

She has writ­ten for numer­ous schol­arly pub­li­ca­tions about art, aes­thet­ics and edu­ca­tion and also for wrote for Artweek mag­a­zine from 1997 to 2009.  In addi­tion, she has designed the­ater sets and led eight pub­lic mural projects.

Kopp­man has fre­quently taught in schools as an artist in res­i­dence as well as at the col­lege and uni­ver­sity level.  She is the recip­i­ent of numer­ous grants and fel­low­ships, includ­ing a Ful­bright.  Her work has been exhib­ited in Cal­i­for­nia, Ore­gon, Wash­ing­ton, New York, Den­mark, Peru, Argentina, Nicaragua and Mexico.

To see more work, visit Debra Koppman’s web­site.

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