Alanna DeRocchi received her MFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in 2010. She also holds BA and BFA degrees from Western Illinois University from 2002 and 2004, as well as spent three years as a post baccalaureate student at California State University, Long Beach. She has since been a visiting artist at the University of Wisconsin, Osh Kosh, and recently completed a residency at the ClayArch Gimhae Museum in Jillye, South Korea. In 2010 she was a summer resident at the Archie Bray Foundation for Ceramics, in 2011 she returned as the first recipient of the Speyer Fellow and recently received a 2012–2013 Windgate Fellowship. In December 2016, DeRocchi returned to Foundation to serve as an Artist in Residence. 

Archie Bray Foundation: Alanna DeRocchi