Casey Schachner is an Assistant Professor of Art in 3D Foundations at the Betty Foy Sanders Department of Art at Georgia Southern University. She received her BFA in Sculpture from Baylor University and her MFA in Studio Art from the University of Montana. Casey was born and raised in the southeast United States, growing up in Florida and coastal South Carolina.
Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, ranging from temporary site-specific installations to permanent public artworks. In 2011, she served as an Artist in Residence at the University of Georgia Lamar Dodd School of Art in Cortona, Italy and in 2012 as an Artist in Residence at the Carving Studio & Sculpture Center (CSSC) in Vermont. She was selected as the 2017 UM Emerging Artist for Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild (BPSW), an International Sculpture Park in Lincoln, Montana. In 2018, she exhibited at the Public Art Exhibition on Hilton Head Island in South Carolina, where she received a People's Choice award. Casey was one of three recipients of the 2022-2023 Georgia Sea Grant for Artists, Writers, and Scholars program which facilitated the algae-based ceramic artwork exhibition at the UGA Aquarium on Skidaway Island.