Judy Tuwaletstiwa

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

Judy Tuwaletstiwa (born 1941, Los Angeles, California) [1] is an American multi-disciplinary artist and writer. [2]

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Early life and education

Tuwaletstiwa attended the University of California at Berkeley and Harvard University. [3]

Career

Tuwaletstiwa held residencies at Pilchuck Glass School (1998), [4] Bullseye Glass Resource Center in Santa Fe (2012), the Corning Museum of Glass (2017), [3] and the Tamarind Institute (2017). [5]

Her work is in the Corning Museum of Glass, [3] the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, [6] and the National Museum of Women in the Arts, [7] 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. [8] In 2022 Tuwaletstiwa's work was included in the exhibition Distilled Presence at Pie Projects in Santa Fe. [9]

In 2007 Tuwaletstiwa created the artist's book Mapping Water. [10] In 2016 she created the artist's book Glass. [11]

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  10. Tuwaletstiwa, Judy (2007). Mapping Water. Sante Fe, NM: Radius Books. ISBN   9781934435021. OCLC   154805758.
  11. Tuwaletstiwa, Judy (2016). Glass. Santa Fe, NM: Radius Books. ISBN   978-1942185093. OCLC   933720135.