Marika Ratkeviciute is an adjunct faculty at Rochester Institute of Technology and is currently teaching Foundations Drawing and Drawing for non-majors. She earned MFA in Studio Art in 2019 from Rochester Institute of Technology, and her BFA degree from Columbia College Chicago in 2014.

In the classroom Marika’s main objective is to foster students’ independent decision-making skills. Guiding them to the answer is more valuable than simply providing one. Her teaching methods often involve breaking down problems and researching solutions along with the students. She believes that the most effective setting for learning is that in a group environment with individually tailored approach.

In her artistic practice Ratkeviciute works across variety of media with the main focus in printmaking and sculpture (metal casting). Both processes involve some level of control and repetition, but while meant to make exact copies, they often invite chance and produce a slightly transformed copy of the original. Marika employed these processes to help her talk about the idea of memories and transitions as staples of one’s identity.