Assistant Professor of Art
BFA - University of Northern Iowa, MFA - San Francisco State University
E-mail: cwubbena@semo.edu
(573) 651-5197
Office: Serena Hall SB309B

Assistant Professor Chris Wubbena is the head of the sculpture area and teaches all levels of sculpture and three-dimensional foundations at Southeast Missouri State University.  Over the years, Wubbena has taught a wide range of classes covering basic sculpture techniques, experimental media, printmaking, professional practices and contemporary theory.  His creative work, much like his teaching, navigates across disciplines, employing the use of sculpture, photographic printmaking, drawing, sound, projection and creative writing.

Currently, Wubbena's artwork generates from an interest in melding physical and cultural history into compositions that exhume and challenge issues from yesterday and today.   Through an assortment of media, he creates artwork that most often references the link between geology, history and everyday life, such as social stratification, political fissures, or historical sedimentation and erosion.  In the end, the body of work created is an amalgamation of various landmarks and artifacts.  Such landmarks and artifacts investigate our shared contemporary existence as it sits teetering atop a world of accumulated beliefs, traditions and misconceptions.

Wubbena keeps an active exhibition record with indoor and outdoor exhibitions throughout the United States. Over the past few years, Wubbena has exhibited in the Art in Place Exhibition in Charlottesville, Va.; Sculpture Walk in Sioux Falls, S.D.; the New Orleans Triennial, with guest juror Marilyn Kushner from the Brooklyn Museum of Art; and the Delta Exhibition in Little Rock, Ark., with guest Juror Don Reitz.  His work has earned him the Grand Award for the Delta Exhibition and most recently a Mississippi Arts Commission Visual Arts Fellowship with partial funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.   In the summer of 2007, Wubbena completed and installed a large-scale public sculpture for Mississippi Power Company on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi.  The sculpture was commissioned to commemorate the work done by Mississippi Power employees during and after Hurricane Katrina.

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