BIO
Christine A. Holtz received her M.F.A. in fiber arts from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and her B.F.A. from Indiana University of Pennsylvania with a concentration in painting and fiber arts. She has shown her artwork at many art institutions across the country including but not limited to the Schweinfurth Art Center in Auburn, New York; Sheldon Art Galleries in St. Louis, Missouri; Woman Made Gallery in Chicago, Illinois; Palos Verdes Art Center in Rancho Palos Verdes, California; Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts in Grand Rapids, Michigan; the Rockford Art Museum in Rockford, Illinois; and the George Caleb Bingham Gallery at the University of Missouri. Her work was chosen for the Fiberart International 2019 exhibition in Pittsburgh, PA and was featured in the summer of 2020 alongside Jessica Witte in “It Hits Home” at The Gallery at the Kranzberg, St. Louis, MO. Most recently, her work was selected for Surface Design Journal’s sixth annual international exhibition in print: From Confrontation to Catharsis.
Ms. Holtz’s career as an educator started in 2008 when she became an Adjunct Instructor at Jefferson College teaching various art studio courses along with art history. From 2008 and continuing today, she serves as an Adjunct Instructor at St. Charles Community College. From 2010 to 2017 she also took on the role of Art Gallery Coordinator for the Fine Arts Gallery on the St. Charles Community College campus. In the fall of 2015, she was hired as an Associate Instructor to teach Fibers and Drawing at Maryville University where she continues to teach today. In her not-so-spare time, she is a mother, works at the YMCA part-time, competes on an artistic swim team, and tests her sanity through her tedious art practice.
PERSONAL STATEMENT
Traveling has helped build who I am today and greatly influences my work and teaching. Since 2003, I have had the wonderful opportunity to travel to Poland, Germany, Czech Republic, Italy, Japan, and Mexico. I have a love for art and the role that it plays in society and on an individual level.
In addition to my own work, I am also working with my photographer husband to complete a re-photographing project that we started in 2007. His great grandfather and great grandmother had taken photographs of all 50 state capitol buildings over the course of their life. We are now traveling to all of the state capitols to capture a similar photograph of the buildings and create a series of photos about generations, time, and change. So far, he has taken photographs of thirty-seven U.S. state capitol buildings.