What she does
Visiting professor of philosophy at Connecticut College, wood sculptor.
Where she learned
Colby, Boston University, Rhode Island School of Design, Tyler School of Art in Rome.
Her first mentors
Her parents, Lucinda Allerton Rocknak '58, who restores furniture, and her father, R. William Rocknak '58, a woodworker.
What she teaches
Skepticism and epistemology, in an attempt to get students to think on their own.
What she carves
Human figures, women on a train, a woman in a Cambodian death camp. She is at work on a tryptich. Check out her work at www.steffrocknak.com.
What she uses for materials
Eucalyptus, oak and basswood.
Where her teaching, philosophy and carving intersect
"I do try to understand what is the right picture of the world, the right picture of knowledge," she recently told Woodshop News.
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