Megan Weikel received an M.A. in Critical Studies from Maryland Institute College of Art and a B.F.A. from the Corcoran College of Art in Washington, DC. Her education includes undergraduate coursework at Gettysburg College in music performance and the history of the arts.
She has taught at the Corcoran and for Penn State University and has worked at the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian Institution’s Freer-Sackler Museum of Asian Art. Her experience as part of the Public Relations staff at the Corcoran during the Gallery’s cancellation of the Robert Mapplethorpe exhibition, The Perfect Moment, inspired the creation of an elective course on censorship for MICA. She is also a violist and former member of the Harrisburg Symphony. Her mixed-media studio work is heavily influenced by semiotics. It incorporates the figure and found and shredded text to scrutinize the myriad projections women encounter while negotiating and confronting patriarchal constraints.