Chris Dockery, Ph.D.

Chris Dockery is the program coordinator for the art education program in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of North Georgia. She is also the studio coordinator for the Paper Arts/BookArts/Letterpress Studio. 

Her artwork explores notions of domestic ritual, symbolic alchemy, cultural narrative and personal mythology.  She works in many media including oil painting, egg tempera, encaustic, fresco, book arts, and letterpress printing. She has been featured in local, regional and national exhibitions including a solo exhibition at Missouri Western State University. Her work is included in corporate collections, including King and Spaulding, LLP, and the Appalachian Regional Commission Federal Offices in Washington DC. 

From 2012 to 2017, Chris was the Appalachian Teaching Fellow for the Georgia Appalachian Studies Center, organizing arts-based research with students and the community which was focused on creating a more sustainable Appalachia. Chris sees her academic research, her artistic work, as well as her service to the community and the profession as a means to the same end. She is a product of her Southern Highland heritage, a native of Murphy, North Carolina. Her Appalachian identity is a throughline in all the products of her creative and scholarly research. 

• Ph.D. in Art, Emphasis in Art Education, University of Georgia 2008
• M.F A. Clemson University 2001
• B.F.A University of Georgia 1999
• A.A. Young Harris College 1996