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DESCRIPTION
Oil on recycled recipes (cardstock)
8.5 x 11 in
2023
My work reimagines inherited myths of authority and origin, shifting them from punishment and dominance toward reciprocity and care. In Mary Alone and Together, absence and fracture become openings for tenderness, play, and new stories of embodiment. What remains is not sin or hierarchy, but the possibility of relationship—between body, land, cosmos, and one another.
BIO
Tereza Swanda is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice spans painting, sculpture, performance, and digital media to explore care, embodiment, and ecofeminist myth-making. She teaches Studio Art and Art History at Salem State University and Roxbury Community College, develops open-access curricula in decolonial pedagogy, and holds an MFA from VCFA and dual BFAs in Painting and Sculpture from MassArt. Her projects and exhibitions—such as the COIL initiative Trash to Art and the participatory series Touchstone—have been presented nationally and internationally, supported by residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and the Millay Colony, with ongoing mentorship from Rose Shakinovsky and Claire Gavronsky.
DESCRIPTION
Oil on recycled recipes (cardstock)
8.5 x 11 in
2023
My work reimagines inherited myths of authority and origin, shifting them from punishment and dominance toward reciprocity and care. In Mary Alone and Together, absence and fracture become openings for tenderness, play, and new stories of embodiment. What remains is not sin or hierarchy, but the possibility of relationship—between body, land, cosmos, and one another.
BIO
Tereza Swanda is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice spans painting, sculpture, performance, and digital media to explore care, embodiment, and ecofeminist myth-making. She teaches Studio Art and Art History at Salem State University and Roxbury Community College, develops open-access curricula in decolonial pedagogy, and holds an MFA from VCFA and dual BFAs in Painting and Sculpture from MassArt. Her projects and exhibitions—such as the COIL initiative Trash to Art and the participatory series Touchstone—have been presented nationally and internationally, supported by residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and the Millay Colony, with ongoing mentorship from Rose Shakinovsky and Claire Gavronsky.