Artist Bio & Experience
Tina Medina is a visual artist and professor of art at Mountain View campus, Dallas College. Born and raised in West Texas, Medina earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at Texas Tech University and Master of Fine Arts degree at the University of North Texas. Medina's art has been exhibited nationally in exhibits such as Immigration, Migration, Movement & The Humanities at Arizona State University, and displayed at the Galería América of the Institute for Latino Studies, University of Notre Dame, Indiana. Medina has curated several exhibits including Contemporary Latino American Artists of the Metroplex and ELLA: Exhibiting Local Latina Artists at the Dallas Latino Cultural Center. She was a member of the oldest artist run co-op in Texas, 500X Gallery, for five years and served on the City of Dallas Public Art Committee. Currently she serves as the discipline coordinator for the art department at Mountain View and lives in with her family in the Oak Cliff area of Dallas.
EDUCATION
2004 Master of Fine Arts
College of Visual Arts and Design, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
2000 Bachelor of Fine Arts
School of Art, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
TEACHING POSITIONS
• 2008-current
Full time Faculty- Professor of Visual Arts, Mountain View Campus, Art Department, Division of Arts, Humanities, and Communication, Dallas College, Dallas. Texas
• 2005-2007
Visiting Scholar in Art, Mountain View College, Arts, Humanities, and Social
Sciences Division, Dallas County Community College District, Dallas, Texas
• 2004-2005 Adjunct Instructor in art Tarrant County College District-Southeast University of North Texas
Brookhaven College
• 2001-2004 Teaching Assistant and Teaching Fellowship University of North Texas-School of Visual Arts
CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE
2019 Curator, Retro-Matico 2, the works of Jose Vargas, Latino Cultural Center, Dallas, Texas
2017 Curator, Retro-Matico: Jose Vargas, Oak Cliff Cultural Center, Dallas, Texas
2015 Curator, Her Obsidian Intentions-Contemporary Latina Artists, Cliff Gallery, Mountain View College, Dallas, TX
2014 Curator, ELLA-Exhibiting Local Latina Artists, Latino Cultural Center, Dallas, TX
2013 Interim gallery duties, Mountain View College galleries
2012 Curator, el dia de los muertos exhibit: Jose Vargas and Jessica Salazar McBride, Cliff Gallery, Mountain View College, Dallas, TX
2010 Curator, Like Water for Chocolate: local women artists respond to the novel by Laura Esquivel, Cliff Gallery, Dallas, TX
2008 500X Gallery Member, 2004-2008, Dallas, Texas
Texas’ oldest artist run, co-operative gallery, established in 1978, with a selection of members who are selected by previous members. Members maintain gallery facilities and hang and sell artwork.
Vice President and exhibit coordinator, 2006-2007
Juried exhibit committee, Expo. 2007
- Curator: Ojo II Art Exhibition, Contemporary Latino American Artists of the Metro plex, Brookhaven College, Dallas County Community Colleges, Farmers Branch, Texas
- Curator: Ojo: The Unexpected Art Exhibition, Contemporary Latin American Artists of the Metroplex, Richland Community College, Dallas County Community Colleges, Dallas, Texas
2002 Installation assistant, Susan Cheal Installation, Conduit Gallery, Dallas,Texas
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
2018 Artist Workshop, Adult Painting Group, Guest Artist, North Oak Cliff Library, Dallas, Texas
Upward Bound summer session art instructor, Mountain View College, Dallas
Juror for Dia de los Muertos children’s exhibit and competition, North Oak Cliff Library, Dallas, TX
Latino Arts Festival participant, Oak Cliff, Dallas, TX
City of Dallas Public Art Committee Member: Veterans Public sculpture, West Dallas
Sunset Residency, interviewing members of the community for an art exhibit.
Collaborating with North Oak Cliff Library to exhibit student work at library
City of Dallas Public Art Committee Member
Dallas Museum of Art, featured artist workshop, C3 Adult Encounters Recruitment: Drawing Studio Workshop, Booker T. Washington School for the Performing Arts, Dallas, TX
2013
Worth and Dallas, TX
Juror: Congressional High school Art Competition, District 33 (Marc Veasey), Fort
2010 Juror, Hecho in Dallas Juried Art Exhibit, Latino Cultural Center, Dallas, TX
2008 Instructor and Visiting Artist, Drawing from the Collection for Adults, Fort Worth Museum of Modern Art, Fort Worth, Texas
2007
- Instructor and Visiting Artist, Drawing from the Collection for Children, Fort Worth Museum of Modern Art, Fort Worth, Texas
- Instructor and Visiting Artist, Teen-Artist Project, Fort Worth Museum of Modern Art, Fort Worth, Texas
- Juror: Sur del Trinidad Art Exhibit, Ice House Cultural Center, Dallas, Texas Juror, Art Competition and Exhibit, Booker T. Washington High School, Dallas, Texas
- Juror, Visual Art Competition and Exhibit, Wade College, Dallas, Texas
2006
- League Juror: Sur del Trinidad Art Exhibit, Ice House Cultural Center, Dallas, Texas
- Juror, Art Competition and Exhibit, Booker T. Washington High School, Dallas, Texas
- Dallas Area High School Art Exhibit Juror, Kiva Gallery, Mountain View College, Dallas, Texas
- Juror, Visual Art Competition and Exhibit, Wade College, Dallas, Texas 2005
- Juror, Photography Contest, Lewisville Public Library, Lewisville, Texas
- Painting Workshop for Elementary School Students, Austin Independent School
District, Women and their Work Gallery, Austin, Texas
2004 Panel Discussion Participant, La Virgen de Guadalupe Art Exhibition, Ice House Cultural Center, Dallas, Texas
2002 Collaborating artist, Mural painting, Gatesville Elementary School, Gatesville, Texas, collaborated in developing concept and painting a wall mural
COLLABORATIONS
- 2015 Common Book Event: Into the Beautiful North, Collaboration with Theater department, art activity and drama performance.
- Day Without Art, Interdisciplinary Event-Painting, Drama, Music, Dance, and Office of Student Life
- 2014 Collaboration with artist/professor, Ed Blackburn for Painting course project
- Collaboration with artist/professor, Annette Lawrence for Sculpture course project
- Monster Project exhibition of elementary and college student collaboration in the
MVC Kiva Gallery
- 2013 “Monster Project”, Bethune Elementary art students and Mountain View
College art students, Mountain View College-collaborated with local elementary school art instructor to have college students translate elementary student drawings into 3 dimensional sculptures.
- Spring Writing Festival, Live Painting/drawing/sketching Stations by students and instructor, Mountain View College, Dallas, TX
- 2010 End of Semester Revue, Spring Semester, Mountain View College
- Showcase Fine Arts Galleria: Collaboration between Dance, Drama, Music,
Humanities and Art Departments, (2008-2010)
- 2008 Learning Community- Art Appreciation 1301 and U.S. History 1302
- FIPSE faculty participant: Family Involvement Post-Secondary Education incorporation into course curriculum
- Dance & Draw, collaboration with drawing classes drawing dance performance in public on campus, Mountain View College
- Division of Fine Arts Calendar
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT & TRAINING
2013
- Writing in Unexpected Places Workshop, presented by Dr. Anne Geller, Associate Professor of English and Director of Writing Across the Curriculum, Institute for Writing Studies at St. John’s University of Queens, New York. Presented at Dallas, Texas
- Recruiting for Tomorrow: Cultural Competence Seminar, presented by Dr. Cris Cullinan of University of Oregon, Dallas, TX
- Meeting the Challenge Faculty Workshop presented by Dr. Sandy Shugart of Valencia College, Mountain View College, Dallas, TX
- DE-Introduction to Online Teaching, Mountain View College
- DE-Quality Matters and Section 508 Accessibility, Mountain View College
2012 Pathways for Student Success
2008 FIPSE-Family Involvement for Latino Success in College, Training, Oak Cliff Center for Community Studies, Dallas, Texas
2007 Collaborative Learning Training and Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota Cooperative Learning
2006 Quality Enhancement Plan
Intercultural Competence
CONFERENCES
2016 Latino Art Now! Conference, Chicago, Illinois
2012-2013 Sustainability Summit, Mountain View College, Dallas, TX
Presenter and participant in Women’s Empowerment Leadership Conference, Mountain View College, Dallas, TX
Employee Development Day, Brookhaven College, Farmers Branch, TX
2010 Preparate Conference-Educating Latinos for the Future of America, San Diego, CA
TACHE-Texas Association of Chicanos in Higher Education Conference, San Antonio, TX
(2006-2010) DCCCD Conference, Dallas, Texas
2009 American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education Conference, San Antonio, Texas
PRESENTATIONS
2016 Paño Arte: A Southwestern Chicana/o Art Form Breaks Out of to Urban Streets and Other Venues Beyond the Confines of La Pinta, Latino Art Now Conference, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
2013
- La Virgen de Guadalupe: Iconic Image, Oak Cliff Cultural Center, Dallas, Texas
- Facilitator, Inaugural Book Club Discussion, Common Book: One Amazing Thing,
Mountain View College
- Common Book Project: Teaching the Common Book, Return Week, Professional
Development opportunity for faculty, Mountain View College
- Collaborative Learning, Visions of Excellence, El Centro West Campus, Dallas,
TX
- Common Book Project, Teaching and Learning Team Professional Development
Presentation, Northlake College, Irving, TX
- Developing Leadership, Leadership Women’s Empowerment Leadership
Conference, Mountain View College, Dallas, TX 2012
- Choices, Women’s Conference, Mountain View College, Dallas, TX
- Guest speaker, Outstanding Student Banquet, Dallas, TX
2010
- Preparate Conference-Educating Latinos for the Future of America, Co- Presenter, FIPSE, San Diego, CA
- Co-Presenter: La familia te encamina hacia al exito, (Partnering with families for student success), TACHE-Texas Association of Chicanos in Higher Education Conference, San Antonio, TX
2009
- Mujeres in Higher Education, Facilitator and Presenter, Student Life Program: Caminos, Mountain View College, Dallas, TX
- Artist Lecture for Humanities courses, Richland College, DCCCD, Dallas, TX
- Co-Presenter: Student Retention, Persistence and Success: An Interdisciplinary Family Involvement Model, American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education Conference, San Antonio, Texas
- Presenter: Cine-Film Analysis, Latino Cultural Center, Dallas, TX
2008 Adjunct Training-Collaborative Learning Facilitator, Mountain View College,
Dallas, Texas. (2007-2008) 2006
• Artist Lecture: From Handkerchiefs to Cactus-She Wears War Bells Exhibition, Mountain View College, Dallas, Texas
• Art Talk, Platform Exhibition, Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, Texas
2005 Gallery Talk, Pochismas, Women & Their Work Gallery, Austin, Texas
2004 Lecturer, Tarrant County College, Hurst, Texas: Artist Slide lecture
2002 Lecturer, School of Visual Arts, University of North Texas: Slide lecture on graduate work
HONORS & AWARDS
2018 Best Club Event, Art Auction Fundraiser for Puerto Rico, Mountain View College
2017 Best Club Advisor: Art Club, Mountain View College, Dallas
2012 Nominee for Innovation of the year, Common Book Story Booth, Mountain View College
2010 Honorable Mention, Innovation of the Year: Common Book Project, DCCCD
2009 Innovation of the Year: Common Book Project, Mountain View College
2008 Club of the Year Award, Art Club, Mountain View College
2007 Trio Educator, Upward Bound, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas
