Originally from Michigan, McCormick currently lives and teaches in Denver, Colorado.She has a BFA in Sculpture and an MFA in Sculpture and Post-Studio Practice.
McCormick is the co-author of a digital arts curriculum for the State of Colorado and has partnered with land rights activists in the San Luis Valley on creative projects centering decolonial efforts. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, and my work has been featured in Sculpture Magazine. She has also participated in artist residencies Nes Iceland and the Santa Fe Art Institute.
McCormick uses sculpture to process the entanglements of care, power, and perception, particularly in response to personal and ecological grief. She works primarily with fabric and digital modeling to form hybrid structures where softness and rigidity coexist. Through these amalgams, McCormick imagines more-than-human beings that blur distinctions between species, timelines, and functions.
She has found RMCAD students to be particularly skilled in the craft of world-building. Their ability to imagine environments and storylines beyond the familiar keeps her excited to see their interpretations of every assignment. They are also among the most accepting and inclusive student bodies she has encountered in her years of teaching. Their willingness to engage in deep discussions and challenge their own worldviews are among the many reasons she loves coming to work each day.
McCormick is an avid outdoors-person, reader, and tinkerer. She loves facilitating community in the greater Denver metro area and regularly co-hosts meetups in the city for new friends to be made, singing karaoke, playing board games, and supporting local businesses.
Course Credentialing
FD1020A – 2D Design: Elements + Principles, FD1600 – Studio Seminar: Methods of Inquiry, FD2130A – 3D Design: Space + Materiality, FD2510 – Special Topics, ART2000 – Fine Arts Sophomore Portfolio Review, 2400 – Form + Content, ART3301 – Special Topics in Fine Arts, ART3500 – Experimental Studies, ART4600 – Professional Practice, ART4770 – Sculpture Advanced Studio, ART4803 – Senior Studio I, ART4804 – Senior Studio II, ART2100 – Professional Practice Survey: Voice + Vision, ART3100 – Professional Practice: Act + Aspire, ART1190 – Sculpture: Armatures + Welding, ART2290 – Sculpture: Cast + Assemble
