Rate My Professor Chris Wille

Christopher Wille serves as Associate Professor of Digital Media & Design and Chair of the Arts and Education Division at Eureka College in Eureka, Illinois, a position he has held since 2016. He earned a Bachelor of Arts with an emphasis in 2D from Eastern Illinois University in 2003 and a Master of Fine Arts with honors from Illinois State University in 2007. Prior to his current role, Wille was an Instructor of Digital Photography at Heartland Community College from 2015 to 2016 and held several Instructional Assistant Professor positions at Illinois State University from 2008 to 2013, teaching courses in Expanded Media, Jewelry/Metals, 3-D Fundamentals, and serving as Teaching Assistant in Jewelry/Metals and Visiting Artist Seminar. Earlier experiences include instructing at Peoria Art Guild and McLean County Arts Center from 2006 to 2008, and studio assisting for sculptor Dan Nardi in 2007. Wille has also participated in AP Test Scoring for Art & Design, including online sessions from 2020 to 2022 and on-location in Utah in 2022.

As an artist and educator based in Bloomington, Illinois, Wille combines new media with traditional sculptural techniques to form hybrid works, exhibited nationally and internationally in locations including New York, Texas, Arkansas, South Korea, Berlin, Germany, and Reykjavík, Iceland. He is a founding member of Sphere Collective, engaging in research and production collaborations with Brian Patrick Franklin on projects such as “Dark Web” since 2015, “Currency” presented at the SRA Symposium and DIGRA 2014, and others like “Infection by Injection” at Festival Internacional de la Imagen 2014. Wille has earned distinctions including a Merit Award at the Emerging Illinois Artist exhibition at McLean County Arts Center in 2007, an Honorable Mention at the 4th Cheongju International Craft Competition in 2005, and artist residencies at I-Park in East Haddam, Connecticut (2009), SÍM in Reykjavík, Iceland (2010), and Arteles in Hämeenkyrö, Finland (2012). His contributions extend to public engagement through artist talks, lectures, and workshops, such as the Dean's Lecture “Flood-tide below me, I see you face to face…” at Eureka College in 2025, presentations at CAA Annual Conferences in 2017 and 2015, international lectures in Finland in 2012, and panel discussions on site-specific and interactive media. Wille has juried art festivals including Sugar Creek Arts Festival and served on committees like Scholarship & Recruitment at Illinois State University and Title IX panels.