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Valerie Hancock

Studio Art

Visual Arts Technician, Studio Art: Ceramics

UNT Art Annex, Room 143

940-565-4025

Valerie.Hancock@unt.edu

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About

Valerie Banes Hancock is the full-time visual arts technician for the Studio Art: Ceramics program where she manages the ceramics facilities. Hancock is also and an adjunct faculty member at UNT; she teaches beginning through advanced undergraduate ceramics courses. As the UNT Clay Guild Faculty Advisor, a student organization, and she helps coordinate the visiting artist workshops for the Ceramics program. Her functional ceramic work has been exhibited across the U.S.

Valerie grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where she fondly remembers getting her hands dirty at an early age making 'mud pies' in the backyard with her big sister, dressed in their 'kinis (bikinis), and leaving them out in the sun to 'bake.' Valerie received her B.F.A. in ceramics and photography from the University of Oklahoma.