Marja Riitta Janika Vallila

Background

Vallila, Marja Riitta Janika was born on October 20, 1950 in Prague, Czechoslovakia. United States citizen, 1964.

Education

Student, Smith College, 1968-1969; student, Smith College, Paris, 1970-1971; student, Amherst College, 1969-1970; Bachelor, Hampshire College, 1972; Master of Fine Arts, Cornell Univercity, 1975.

Career

Instructor sculpture, Windham College, 1975; instructor sculpture, Marlboro College, 1975-1977; assistant professor sculpture, Bard College, 1980; assistant professor sculpture, State University of New York, Albany, since 1981; associate professor, State University of New York, Albany, since 1991. Adjunct instructor sculpture College New Rochelle, 1977. Visiting assistant professor sculpture, Cornell Univercity, 1980, summers 1977, 78, 79, 80.

Visiting artist Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, 1979, Temple University, Philadelphia, 1977, Pennsylvania State University, College Park, 1980, State University of New York, Cortland, 1981, Tulane University, New Orleans, 1981, Syracuse (New York) U., 1981, C.W. Post U., Long Island, 1982, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, 1980, Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, New York, 1985, School Visual Arts, New York City, 1986, 87, Bennington (Vermont) College, 1988, Milton Avery Graduate School Bard College, 1988. Panelist New York Foundation for Arts in Sculpture, 1991. Resident Le Centre Culturel De La Ville Dieu, France, 1992.

Member of advisory committee College Art Architecture and Planning Cornell Univercity, 1982-1986. Curator Exhibition Proctor Gallery, Bard College.

Achievements

• Marja Riitta Janika Vallila has been listed as a notable Artist, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Connections

1 child, Petra.

child:

Petra Vallila