CV/Bio
Tina Mullen is a visual artist currently living in Atlanta, Georgia. For 31 years she held the position of Director of UF Health Shands Arts in Medicine – a program that brings the arts to patients and families struggling with serious illness or injury. She has taught in higher education since 2015 at the University of Florida Center for Arts in Medicine and College of Engineering and currently serves as Visiting Faculty for Georgia Tech teaching courses that focus the science and practice of creativity.
“I have painted and drawn pictures my entire life. I believe that the arts are a vehicle for transformation and personal expression, and my passion is to help others bring art into their lives in meaningful ways.”
Tina is a working artist who has exhibited her work throughout the United States and received numerous awards including the Individual Artist Fellowship from the Florida Department of Cultural Affairs. She has been an instructor and visiting artist at Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina and an artist in residence at the Ringling School of Art in Sarasota, Florida, the Ucross Foundation in Wyoming and the Roger Tory Peterson Institute in Jamestown New York.
Tina has a BA from Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. She studied abroad at the Cleveland Institute of Art Program (now SCAD) in Lacoste, France, and has an MFA from the University of Florida.