Professional Bio:
teisha holloway is an artist, educator, and advocate with an MFA from Alfred University and an MA in curriculum and instruction from NMHU. She works as a post-secondary, secondary, and dual credit arts educator based Albuquerque New Mexico and is a teacher leader in her community. She is on the Albuquerque Arts Board representing district 9 and is the Darkroom Liaison at the Harwood Art Center. teisha is an interdisciplinary artist often working at the intersection of analog artifacts and emerging technologies. Her research is focused on highlighting invisible stories of labor, love, and sacrifice of communities that have been marginalized or are often unheard within the United States. teisha hopes to use advocacy and her artistic practice to promote change and provide systemic change to support communities through a holistic community centered approach of connectedness, love, and support.
Artist Statement
I create art as a way to connect and promote social change while processing my own relationship with the world. With my work I am constantly analyzing the cycle of intergenerational knowledge to draw a correlation to culture and dynamics of power. My work often uses imagery and objects that reference nature, technology, the body, and power structures to examine our human experience.
My work also examines the inner working of family dynamics and those inherent systems of power and compares them to governmental rule while it challenges the viewer to think about the knowledge that has been passed down through their family and question their sense of reality.
As an educator I work to provide students access to the tools and knowledge they need to be successful with in our ever changing landscape of new and innovative technologies and ideas with a holistic community integrated approach that puts the ownness on the student to become a part of their community as well as the community to participate in the education of our students.
real bio:
I am a human constantly looking backwards to go forward at my own histories and realities and how they inform my worldview. I think about the ways in which I felt invisible and unheard, as a child, as a woman, as a mother, as a human
and I work to make the world better.
I view my work as dialectic in that it creates an internal dialogue within you and you see that two things can be true at once, a system can be designed to support, while not fully reaching it's intended goals.
can all work to create a better more human/e world together.