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; George Caleb Bingham Gallery at the University of Missouri, and the Craft and Brew House Association Gallery in Pittsburgh, PA. In Fall 2021 her work was selected for publication in Surface Design Journal’s Sixth Annual International Exhibition in Print: From Confrontation to Catharsis. She is currently creating new work as a 2024 Regional Arts Commission Artist Support Grant recipient.
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 a part-time instructor at St. Charles Community College where she now holds the title, Senior Lecturer. 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, Drawing, and Design at Maryville University, where she continues to teach today. In her not-so-spare time, she is a mom, works at the YMCA part-time, competes on a master’s artistic swim team, loves to garden, and tests her sanity through her tedious art practice. Her work is currently in an exploratory phase involving weaving on a floor loom as part of an Artist Support Grant awarded to her by the Regional Arts Commission of St. Louis. You can find more information about her professional art practice at:
www.christineAholtz.com
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 forty-one U.S. state capitol buildings.