JUDITH PECK, Ed.D.
Professor Emerita of Art
Ramapo College of New Jersey
Ramapo College of New Jersey
Dr. Judith Peck’s sculptures are in eighty public and private collections, including the American Art Collection of the Yale University Gallery; the Ghetto Fighters Museum in Israel; West Palm Beach Florida Library; Teaneck New Jersey Public Library; Tenafly New Jersey High School; the Ridgewood New Jersey Train Station and cultural and religious institutions in New York, Maryland and Israel.
Her work has been exhibited at the International Biennial of Art in Malta, the National Academy Galleries in New York, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy, Detroit Institute; New Jersey State Museum, at universities including Yale, Columbia, Fordham, Adelphi, Montclair, and Rutgers, and in numerous gallery exhibitions here and abroad.
Recently Judith Peck’s “Ladies of Steel,” four over-life size sculptures, were on display at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza in New York City sponsored by the NYC Parks Department. A major exhibition of sixteen large sculptures was installed on the Robert Moses Plaza of Fordham University, Lincoln Center in New York. Several large works are on extended exhibit in the Art Park at Clifton City Hall NJ and Sculpture for Leonia NJ.
Judith Peck is professor emeritus of Art at Ramapo College of New Jersey in Mahwah. She is author of the text Sculpture as Experience: Working with Clay, Wire, Wax, Plaster, and Found Objects (Krause), and five other books on creative processes: Leap to the Sun: Learning through Dynamic Play (Prentice-Hall); Art & Interaction (Ramapo College of New Jersey); Art Activities for Mind and Imagination, Artistic Crafts, and Smart Starts in the Arts (Imagination–Arts Publications). Two books published 2022 and 2023 by Routledge center on the arts in higher education and elementary education respectively. Peck has also published two novels and two children’s picture books. She is referenced in Who’s Who in American Art, the World’s Who’s Who of Women, and the Smithsonian Institute’s publication, “Designing Public Art,” published in conjunction with The National Museum of American Art.
Judith holds a doctoral degree from New York University and two master’s degrees in sculpture and art education from Teachers College, Columbia University.
