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A ROSS TINNEY EDUCATION SITE

- Artist - Educator - Thinker - 

ABOUT ME

     My name is Ross Tinney, I was born and raised in and around the Cincinnati, Ohio, metropolitan area with a brief (7 year) stint in Kansas City, Missouri, during my childhood.  My family always lived far and away from urban areas and instead deep in wild areas.  I spent my childhood going on safari adventures in the forests and fields and streams that surrounded my home(s).  Imagination was (and still is) my mode of play and often my brother and I would return home telling stories of the journeys we took and the fantastical beasts we saw.  Overtime I developed a fondness for movies and consider myself a self-appointed movie guru.  Through my imagination and love of film, I came to love art as I began to create and tell my own imaginations through my art practice.  Through art, I have developed a profound enjoyment of scholarly pursuits.  Through art I have been able to flex my mind in new and exciting ways.  As I continue on my journey to become an art(ist) educator, I hope to endear an imaginative mindful practice within all my future student artists!

 

     I recieved my Bachelors of Fine Arts from the University of Cincinnati, College of Design, Architecture, Art, & Planning (DAAP) in 2007 with a concentration in sculpture.  After school, I entered the 'real' world and for a while did not pursue an artistic career instead working in Information Technology (IT).  Through my 'office' career I learned many real-life hard fought lessons such as organization, financial management, etc.  Lessons a twenty something year old doesn't really think about.  And yet I am glad I learned them as I have a new outlook to life.  It was due to this reflection I am happy to say I returned to the art world and I am now pursuing a Masters of Arts in Visual Arts Education along with teaching licensure.  My goal is to be an educator of the fine arts, but more importantly bring my particular brand, belief, and philosophy of art thinking to education.

ABOUT THIS SITE

This site is meant to serve as more than a representation of me.  In fact, it is me; this site is the embodiment of myself within the digital realm.  It serves as a blank canvas for my imagination to thrive.  This space provides a medium where I can dabble in my artistic, educative, technological, and mindful practice.  Throughout this site, my hands literally appear out of nowhere bridging  gaps between the physical and the digital.  My hands become agents of creative production through the interaction of flesh and technology, stringing together my thoughts & ideas with action & reality.  In sum, this site is more than my own personal praxis, it is a catalytic locus where worlds meet: arts & science, mind & body, past & future, technology & flesh…  All things are connected, sometimes we just don’t see the strings… Can you find the hidden strand?

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