Tina Gutierrez is a Cincinnati-Based Arts-Photographer. Her works are held in private and institutional collections. Her specialties are portraiture, social justice, and underwater photography. Through Sharing her current and past bodies of work and exploration with participants, students will learn about the 3 stages of Ideation and how they might use them to create meaningful work for themselves and the world around them.
Gutierrez’s primary artistic medium is photography and its practice is grounded in the study of art, movement, and music. She is a longtime student of Developmental Movement, including Feldenkreis and Alexander techniques, and very deliberately composes the human figure and its activity. Depicting classical balance and beauty in the human form is a hallmark of her work. She is passionately involved with social justice photography and believes that the camera is a tool for change. She strongly identifies with both her Hispanic and Appalachian heritage and works to create images that show the beauty in the diversity of humanity with hopes to create healing opportunities for individuals and communities. She prefers to be called an “Arts Instigator”, when working with communities by bringing attention to issues that are difficult or challenging through thought provoking projects that enable others to express their fears, hopes and dreams for the future.
