Tea Schiano
Visual Artist:
Prayer poles and sand paintings – Sands Cycles (film)
Costume Designer (body painting):
Dance for the Earth/ Rolling Thunder (1992)
“Statement of My Work” Tea Schiano, 1992.
Click to read the entire statement by Tea Schiano, 1992: DCCoGWArt030
Tea Schiano, a multi-disciplinary artist, received her early training at the Art Student’s League of New York City in the late 1960’s and received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MA in Art Therapy and art Education from the University of New Mexico. Schiano’s work is influenced by nature, science, and diverse cultures. Schiano has received awards for her environmental installations and is currently working on global participatory art projects, including the global acid rain project which unites communities worldwide in collaborative art projects.
STATEMENT OF MY WORK (Tea Schiano, 1992)
Through a long series of events, I came to a pathway that led both inwards and outwards, to solitude and community and collaboration. Simultaneously. This pathway wasn’t a clearly delineated trail but rather a movement in awareness that requires the study of events, signs, and fortuitous happenings and an intimacy with messages from dreams and a receptiveness to the teachings of nature. “Make yourself as a broken arrow before nature.” said the dream. Directionless. Surrendered strength. Art is a vehicle. A way of both studying this pathway, living this pathway, sharing it, and participating in healing from it.
As a transformative artist concerned with collective awakening I work primarily with environmental art installations, interdisciplinary performance, and collaborative arts projects with non-artists, artists, and special populations.
The learning is the teaching.
(For more information, see the folders in the archive or click on the pdf above).