Tina Hirsig’s sculptures are meant to be a contemplation and conversation about contemporary educational practices for K-12 and the university.  Specifically, the work addresses the recent detrimental movement toward high-stakes testing to assess learning.  The work itself represents a method for learning.  Through this inquiry-based art practice, the artist learns along with creating and in turn asks that of the viewer.  Opening the hinged doors, a physical touch, is intended to start the conversation.  Tina Hirsig asks the viewer to be an active participant in answering, “What do you know?”

Along the trajectory of contemporary artists such as Robert Rauschenberg, Joseph Cornell, and Betye Saar these sculptural assemblages utilize recycled, reclaimed, and found objects along with paintings, drawings, and image transfers from photographs.