Biography
Rebeca Gilling is a Miami-based visual artist and educator whose work engages community-centered arts practice and interdisciplinary creative processes. She has taught at the Miami International University of Art & Design and currently teaches at Barry University, where her teaching integrates studio practice, collaborative learning, and cultural inquiry.
Gilling’s artistic practice includes workshop-based visual art projects that connect traditional and contemporary approaches to craft and cultural expression. She has participated in collaborative arts programs that bring together university students and community participants to explore artistic traditions through hands-on processes such as mask making, movement, and participatory design. Her work emphasizes experiential learning, collective creativity, and the role of visual art as a vehicle for cultural exchange and community engagement.
Central to Gilling’s studio practice is ceramic sculpture, through which she investigates form, materiality, and process. Her expertise in ceramics encompasses sculptural construction, surface development, and the expressive potential of clay as both a functional and conceptual medium. Through ceramic sculpture, Gilling engages historical and cultural references while encouraging experimentation, tactile knowledge, and critical reflection on material processes. In her teaching, this expertise supports an emphasis on craftsmanship, technical rigor, and the development of individual artistic voice, situating ceramics within broader interdisciplinary and socially engaged art practices.
