Tiara Jenkins

      Curriculum Vitae

      Performances

‘Desiring Roots’, TINDERBOX series 2-21-2015, Mobius, Cambridge, MA, February 2015                                                                                      'Making Butter 2’, Practice, Practicing, and the Perpetual Becoming of Performance, Panoply Performance Lab, Brooklyn, NY, November 2014                                                                                                                                                                                                              ‘Making Butter 1’, Performing on Paper 10-19-14, Mobius, Cambridge, MA, October 2014                                                                                             ‘In The Landscape 1’, The Cyclorama Show: Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition, Boston, MA, May 2014                                                                    ‘A Transition of Slussen’, PALS Performance Art Links Festival, Stockholm, Sweden, April 2014                                                                                  ‘My Weight in Ice’, Not Obtuse if You Think Harder, Gallery at the Piano Craft Guild, Boston, MA, 2014                                                                   ‘Passage’, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA, March 2014                                                                                                                ‘Fragile Balance’, CONVERGENCE Part 1, Khaki Gallery, Boston, MA, February 2014                                                                                           ‘Burden, Hold, Release, Drop’, CONVERGENCE Part 1, Khaki Gallery, Boston, MA, January 2014                                                                            ‘Falling Timber’, The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, December 2013

      Exhibition Record

Natural Forms and Figures, O Go Gallery, 403 A Center St, Jamaica Plain, MA, 2014                                                                                         Medium Without Measure, Senior Thesis Graduating Students Award Recipients Exhibition, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 2012         The Artists’ Voice, The Resnikof Gallery, Roxbury Community College, Boston, MA, 2012                                                                                  Proximity, Mission Hill Gallery, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 2012                                                                                            Push, BAG Gallery, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 2011                                                                                                      FLUX, Senior Exhibition, MSSU Spiva Art Gallery, Joplin, MO, 2011                                                                                                                         11th Annual Regional Arts Show & Reception, Joplin Museum Complex, Joplin, MO, 2011                                                                                  Emerging Artists Exhibition, Fresh Gallery, Springfield, MO, 2011                                                                                                                         Focal Point Gallery, Joplin, MO, 2010                                                                                     

      Honors

Polly Thayer Starr Collaboration, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA, 2014                                                                                   Dana Pond Award Recipient, The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 2012                                                                      Outstanding Student in Studio Art, Missouri Southern State University, Joplin, MO, 2011                                                                       Award of Merit, Fresh Gallery, Springfield, MO, 2011                                                                                                                                Wildlife Forever Art of Conservation Stamp Award, 2005                                                                                                                            Wildlife Forever State-Fish Art People’s Choice Award, 2005                                                                                                             Placed First in the Missouri Junior Duck Stamp Design Contest, 2001-2006                                                                                         Placed First for Missouri in the Wildlife Forever State-Fish Art Competition, 2000-2006    

      Awards/Grants

   Graduate Travel Grant, School of Arts and Sciences, Tufts University, March 2014                                                                                                   The School of the Museum of Fine Arts Scholarship – Merit Award, 2011-2013                                                                                                       The School of the Museum of Fine Arts Post-Baccalaureate Grant, 2011                                                                                                             Katherine Hyde Endowed Summer Studies Award, Missouri Southern State University, 2011                                                                                Henry Warten Art Department Scholarship Award, Missouri Southern State University, 2011                                                                                   Art Department Senior Scholarship Award, Missouri Southern State University, 2010                                                                                   Katherine Hyde Foundation Scholarship Award, Missouri Southern State University, 2010                                                                                        Art Department Scholarship Award, Missouri Southern State University, 2010                                                                                                      Art Department Junior Scholarship Award, Missouri Southern State University, Joplin, MO, 2009                                                                            Art Department Sophomore Scholarship Award, Missouri Southern State University, Joplin, MO, 2008

      Teaching Experience

Teaching Assistant - Nicolas Brynolfson, Film 1, The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 2013                                                                              Teaching Assistant - Ron Rizzi, Death of Painting, The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 2012

      Publications

Blixt - MSSU Art Collective, Volume 5, Spring 2011: 12                                                                                                                                                Blixt - MSSU Art Collective, Volume 4, Spring 2010: 40-41