Judy Tuwaletstiwa

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Judy Tuwaletstiwa
Born1941 (1941)
Los Angeles, California
Known forpainter, glass artist, book artist and writer
Website judytuwaletstiwa.com

Judy Tuwaletstiwa (born 1941, Los Angeles, California) [1] is an American multi-disciplinary artist and writer. [2] The sculptural nature of her paintings are often described as elemental or cosmological in sensibility. She works across a broad range of media including kiln fired glass, fiber, clay, handmade paper and organic matter, such as feathers, quills, ash, sand and sticks. [3] Tuwaletstiwa's work evokes visual storytelling, reflecting the ephemeral aspects of life and expressing the fragility, strength and vulnerability inherent in our human condition. [4]

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Early life and education

Tuwaletstiwa attended the University of California at Berkeley, earning her BA in English Literature in 1962. She received her MAT in Medieval Literature from Harvard University in 1963. [5]

Career

Judy Tuwaletstiwa is a celebrated artist with a long career of residency fellowships, exhibitions, and collections to her name. [6] She was the recipient of Mayor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts 2022 [7] and the New Mexico Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts 2023. [8] Her work was included in the exhibition "Abstracting Nature"(2025) at the Albuquerque Museum of Art, which focused on New Mexico women artists with enduring relationships to the land and creative practices centered on observation, research, and intuition. [9]

Tuwaletstiwa was artist in residence at Pilchuck Glass School (1998 & 2000), [10] Bullseye Glass Resource Center in Santa Fe (2012-2013), the Corning Museum of Glass (2017), [5] and the Tamarind Institute (2017). [11] She held Literary Fellowships at Ucross (2024) [12] and Lannan Foundation (2000) [13]

Her art lives in private, public, and museum collections, such as the New Mexico Museum of Art, [14] Corning Museum of Glass, [5] the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, [15] and the National Museum of Women in the Arts, [16] among others.

Tuwaletstiwa, along with fellow artists Tom Joyce and Karen Willenbrink-Johnsen, created the series Trinity/Ashes for the exhibition Living and Dying in the Nuclear Age for the City of Albuquerque. [17] Tuwaletstiwa's work is represented by Pie Projects, where she has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions, including "Momentum: Seven Contemporary Artists," in celebration of the 12th SITE SANTA FE International. [18]

Tuwaletstiwa’s publications include "The Canyon Poem" (1997); [19] Mapping Water (2007); [20] Glass(2017) [21] and Chaco Series (2025). [22] Special editions of her monographs reside in libraries such as the Corning Museum of Glass’ Rakow Library and Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library.

References

  1. ↑ "Tuwaletstiwa, Judy". Deutschen Nationalbibliothek (in German). Archived from the original on 30 March 2023. Retrieved 30 March 2023.
  2. ↑ "Artist and Writer: Judy Tuwaletstiwa". National Geographic Society . Archived from the original on 10 June 2023. Retrieved 30 March 2023.
  3. ↑ Abatemarco, Michael (July 19, 2019). "Materials World" (PDF). The New Mexican: Pasatiempo. Retrieved 16 June 2025.
  4. ↑ Zimmerman, Nancy (2019). "Material Witness" (PDF). No. Fall. Retrieved 16 June 2025.
  5. 1 2 3 "Judy Tuwaletstiwa". Corning Museum of Glass . Archived from the original on 25 June 2023. Retrieved 30 March 2023.
  6. ↑ "Artist Profile". Tamarind Institute. Tamarind Institute. Retrieved 16 June 2025.
  7. ↑ "2022 Mayor's Arts Awards' Recipients Announced". City of Santa Fe. City of Santa Fe. Retrieved 16 June 2025.
  8. ↑ "The Governor's Awards for Excellence in the Arts". New Mexico Culture. New Mexico Culture. Retrieved 16 June 2025.
  9. ↑ "In Abstracting Nature, A Quiet Dialogue Takes Place Between Hand and Land". Southwest Contemporary. Southwest Contemporary. Retrieved 23 June 2025.
  10. ↑ "Judy Tuwaletstiwa". Artnet . Archived from the original on 12 October 2023. Retrieved 30 March 2023.
  11. ↑ "Judy Tuwaletstiwa". Tamarind Institute . Archived from the original on 31 March 2023. Retrieved 30 March 2023.
  12. ↑ "UCROSS ANNOUNCES SPRING 2024 FELLOWS". Ucross. Across. Retrieved 16 June 2025.
  13. ↑ "Artist Profile". Lannan Foundation. Lannan Foundation. Retrieved 16 June 2025.
  14. ↑ "New Mexico Museum of Art Collections". New Mexico Museum of Art. New Mexico Museum of Art. Retrieved 16 June 2025.
  15. ↑ "Judy Tuwaletstiwa - #19 Cadences [1999]". Museum of Fine Arts, Houston . Archived from the original on 30 March 2023. Retrieved 30 March 2023.
  16. ↑ "The canyon poem". National Museum of Women in the Arts Library & Research Center (Library catalog record). Archived from the original on 7 April 2024. Retrieved 28 March 2023.
  17. ↑ "Judy Tuwaletstiwa, Tom Joyce, Karen Willenbrink-Johnsen, Trinity/Ashes series". City of Albuquerque . Archived from the original on 30 March 2023. Retrieved 30 March 2023.
  18. ↑ "Current Show: Momentum". Pie Projects. Pie Projects. Retrieved 16 June 2025.
  19. ↑ Tuwaletstiwa, Judy (1999). The Canyon Poem. Galisteo, NM: Galisteo Press. ISBN   9780966967913.
  20. ↑ Tuwaletstiwa, Judy (2007). Mapping Water. Sante Fe, NM: Radius Books. ISBN   9781934435021. OCLC   154805758.
  21. ↑ Tuwaletstiwa, Judy (2016). Glass. Santa Fe, NM: Radius Books. ISBN   978-1942185093. OCLC   933720135.
  22. ↑ Chaco Series. Norman, OK: The University of Oklahoma Press. July 2025. ISBN   9780991479276.
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