Meet the School of Art Director

Monika Meler serves as the Director of the School of Art in the J.T. & Margaret Talkington College of
Visual & Performing Arts at Texas Tech University. From 2024-25, Monika was the Interim Associate Dean
of the College of Arts at Valdosta State University (VSU). She also served as the Head of Art & Design at
VSU from 2022-24. She earned her B.F.A. from the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design (MIAD). She
continued her studies at Purdue University, where she earned an M.A., followed with an M.F.A from
Tyler School of Art, Temple University. While at Tyler, she spent a year studying in Rome, Italy.

Monika has exhibited her work extensively in group, juried, and solo exhibitions. She has completed
residencies at Zygote Press in Cleveland, Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, Emmanuel College in Boston,
Center for Contemporary Printmaking in Connecticut, Frans Masereel Center in Belgium, Cork
Printmakers in Ireland, and Women’s Studio Workshop in New York. Solo Exhibits include Yours, Mine,
and Ours at Wabash College in Indiana, The Color of Distance and Desire at the Western Colorado Center
for the Arts, The Center That Cannot Hold at Frontier Space in Montana, and The Distance Between at
the Limerick Printmakers Gallery in Ireland.