![]() ![]() "Aqua Circular, 2010" | Patricia Tinajero is an assistant professor in the Department of Art at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. Tinajero often uses her work to question notions of cultural identity and social practices. Her focus and expertise involves using sculpture, video, fibers and installation in order to examine the ecological practices in art-making that can be applied conceptually as well as practically. Tinajero has participated in many artist residencies, exhibitions, and fellowships, including the American Academy in Rome wiht an affiliated fellowship from the University of Tennessee. Her work has been exhibited at the Islip Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; the Center for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, Michigan; Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Ecuador, 2007; Museum of Contempoary Art, Iceland; Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art Colorado; and at the Museo de la Cultura Parque de los Enanitos, Venezuela, for the Internacional Biennal of Textile Women Artists. Acqua Circular was completed last year during the affiliated fellowship at the American Academy in Rome. To learn more about this artist or to purchase a piece of their work, contact the Arts & Culture Alliance of Greater Knoxville at (865) 523-7543 or www.knoxalliance.com. |


