Nermin Kura graduated in 1996 from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Design and Architecture of Bilkent University, with a pHD on “Ottoman Influence On Tunisian Mural Tiles of the 16-17th Centuries”, in 1997, she obtained a Fine Arts Master’s degree in the field of Ceramic Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design, a research diploma in 1985 from the Université de Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne on African History, and in 1982 a degree in History of Art from the Université de Paris-Sorbonne, Paris IV. Kura, was a History of Art lecturer at Ankara Bilkent University Faculty of Fine Arts, Design and Architecture between 1990 and 95, and at the Rhode Island School of Design between 1995 and 97, and was also a guest artist at the RISD.She was a lecturer on ceramics at the Bennington College in Vermont, USA in 1997, and at Rhode Island College in 1999. Nermin Kura is currently a professor of History of Art at the Roger Williams University in Rhode Island.
