Maria Patricia Tinajero holds a Ph.D. in Visual Art and Philosophy from the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts. Her work reflects a profound commitment to exploring the boundaries of art, philosophy, and the environment. She seeks to inspire critical thinking and foster meaningful dialogue through her interdisciplinary approach. Publications: "The Art of Becoming Soil in the Anthropocene: Reclamation and Decomposition" by Maria Patricia Tinajero. Writing Visual Culture, Vol. 9, 2019. "Ethical Grounds: The Aesthetic Action of Soil" in the book Art, Practice in the Anthropocene. Julie Reiss, editor. Vernon Press, 2018. She co-authored "Porous Bodies, Toxic Landscapes: Mapping the Massena Critical Zone" with Lisa Taliano. Writing Visual Culture, Vol.10, 2022; and "Knowledge transfer in Ecologically Grounded Approaches to Ubimus: InMesh 1.0" with A. Capasso, D. Keller. Journal of New Music Research. Taylor & Francis Online, 2019. Affiliate Fellowship, American Academy in Rome (2010)
Julie Poitras Santos's site-specific practice includes video, installation, and public projects
that include a walking component. The relationship between site, story and mobility fuels a wide range of research and production, investigating the relationship between natural history and individual story; walking as a form of listening to site; and material agency in an age of climate change. Poitras Santos’ solo and collaborative work has been exhibited in the Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art (GIBCA) Extended; Queens Museum, NY; Bates College Museum of Art; Center for Maine Contemporary Art; Karlskrona Konsthall, Sweden; Centre for Contemporary Culture, Barcelona, Spain; Reykjanesbaer Art Museum, Iceland; and at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, among others. Poitras Santos is an Associate Professor in the MFA program at Maine College of Art & Design(MECA&D) in Portland, Maine.