I am an artist and educator working in Charleston, South Carolina. 

Making objects with my hands has always been my method for understanding and interpreting the world around me.   I create art to learn.

Today, I am thinking about the connections among art, education, politics, feminism, and parenting in contemporary culture.  I call myself an interdisciplinary artist because of the wandering in and out of these “disciplines” with my experiences, research, and experiments with materials in my studio.  In my current series of artwork I am examining the vanishing identity of the individual in education with current political reforms and high stakes testing.  It is my hope that my voice as an artist can expand my voice as an educator with this very important issue.

I primarily create collage, assemblage, and sculpture.  My materials are ordinary and mixed.  I work fluidly between photo transfers, paint, knitting/fibers, paper, drawing, vintage texts and antique objects, found objects, natural constructions (like parts of nests), and writing.

This is a playful, mixed bag of curiosities that comes together with thoughtful research and a heavy dose of improvisation.

Finally, I want viewers to enter into such conversations with me (see my series of work titled “Wish” for example).  I see my work as an invitation to participate in dialogues that we can, together, inquire deeply into the world and circumstances in which we find ourselves.

Thanks for visiting!

    All of the images and text on this website are © Tina Hirsig, 2006.

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