Bio

Tenaya DeWitt is an MFA candidate at the University of Colorado, Boulder, pursuing a degree in Ceramics. An artist and educator, she received a BFA in design with latin honors from the University of Oregon, and minored in fine art and art history. She taught K-12 ceramics classes through a community based nonprofit in her area for several years prior to pursuing a graduate degree.

Her work is heavily influenced by natural spaces, art history, and the ways we impact our surroundings with our bodies. She is currently interested in the relationship between objects and time, particularly how the passage of time, and the context it was created in, affects the perceived value of an object. She has done significant paid and volunteer work in community organizing and project management, and places a lot of importance on the involvement of a community in any creative process, thus informing her interest in the role of “place” and “context” in artwork.