Ken Reker, Professor in the Art + Design Department and Director of the Winfisky Gallery at Salem State University, received his MFA in sculpture from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA in drawing and printmaking from the University of Louisville. His public commission for the Boston Children’s Museum was an assemblage of objects from the museum’s Chinese collection into a large window installation that represented a three- dimensional Chinese landscape painting. In 2016, DOUBLE TROUBLE was commissioned by the Fort Point Arts Community in Boston. The sculpture examines our titanic love affair with plastic and petroleum-based products. Reker’s public sculpture installations include Sculpture Key West, Fla., FLOATILLO Festival, Chicago, Ill., WATERWORKS Savannah, Ga., Gloucester New Arts Festival, Ma., TWIST & SHOUT, Cambridge River Arts Festival, Ma., ART in the PARK, Worcester, Ma., OUTDOOR SCULPTURE at Maudslay State Park, Ma. and FLYING HORSE Outdoor Sculpture at Pingree School, Ma. In 2019, he exhibited work in BODIES, BORDERS, BRIDGES at Merrimack College, in a group exhibition that presented art as a bridge to explore contemporary crises related to identities, criminalized migration, refugees and border crossing. He is currently showing work online in MAKING A WAY / ARTISTS RESPONDING TO THE CORONAVIRUS.