CANTON, Mo. — Culver-Stockton College faculty member and award-winning artist Jennifer Bock-Nelson (pictured above), whose public murals are featured throughout Quincy (Ill.), will discuss the inspirations behind her work during an artist talk at Culver-Stockton College Thursday, Sept. 18.
The presentation, “Finding Space in Suspended Time,” is part of C-SC’s Faculty Research Series and is set for 5:30 p.m. in Meaders Lounge in the Gladys Crown Student Center. Her talk is free and open to the public.
Bock-Nelson’s art is exhibited nationally and has received numerous awards, including recently being recognized with a $3,000 Midwest Arts grant award in the Midwest Award for Artists with Disabilities competition, an individual artist grant from the Illinois Arts Council earlier this year, and Best in Show at the 2018 Rockford Midwestern Biennial.
Since joining the Culver-Stockton faculty in 2024, Bock-Nelson has taught courses on painting and drawing. In 2025, she received the College’s Blue Apple Award for Teaching Excellence. She received her MFA in painting from Northern Illinois University and a B.A. in Art from Houghton College.
See Bock-Nelson’s work at https://www.bock-nelson.com/. For more information about Culver-Stockton College’s art major visit https://culver.edu/majors/art/.
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