{"id":2070,"date":"2012-07-30T22:56:12","date_gmt":"2012-07-30T22:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/?page_id=2070"},"modified":"2017-11-20T14:36:23","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T14:36:23","slug":"sweeneyt","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/faculty\/sweeneyt\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweeney, Tara K"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TARA SWEENEY, exhibiting artist and illustrator, has been teaching studio art and design at Augsburg\u00a0University since 1990. A lifelong delight in learning languages and crossing borders has led this native Midwesterner to make art wandering around in the world. In addition to teaching two-dimensional studio courses and writing for the fine arts, she leads study abroad programs\u2014most recently one that included walking a pilgrimage, village to village through the French countryside, to draw on location.<\/p>\n<p>Using perceptual realism Tara mixes words and images using the media and methods the inspiration demands. Viewers are invited in to experience a sense of place and transformation of their own. Her current mixed media work in watercolor, acrylic, and ink explores figure, identity, and spirituality.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to teaching, Tara was executive art director for\u00a0<em>Minneapolis St. Paul Magazine<\/em>, an award-winning designer, and owner of\u00a0<em>Fruitful Results Design<\/em>.<\/p>\n<h2>Education<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>B.S. Studio Arts, University of Wisconsin<\/li>\n<li>B.S. Design, University of Wisconsin<\/li>\n<li>M.F.A Visual Studies, Minneapolis College of Art and Design<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Classes<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Drawing<\/li>\n<li>Painting<\/li>\n<li>Design<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Recent Works<\/h2>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/faculty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/94\/2012\/07\/sweeneyt_image1.jpg\">Reimagined #1<\/a>, mixed media series, 36\u201d x 19\u201d, 2007<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/faculty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/94\/2012\/07\/sweeneyt_image2.jpg\">Sur le Chemin de St. Jacques<\/a>, ink and watercolor, 5\u201d x 14\u201d, 2006<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/faculty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/94\/2012\/07\/sweeneyt_image3.jpg\">Prince Charming<\/a>, ink and watercolor, 11\u201d x 30\u201d, 2006<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TARA SWEENEY, exhibiting artist and illustrator, has been teaching studio art and design at Augsburg\u00a0University since 1990. A lifelong delight in learning languages and crossing borders has led this native Midwesterner to make art wandering around in the world. In addition to teaching two-dimensional studio courses and writing for the fine arts, she leads study &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":46340,"parent":0,"menu_order":24,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2070","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2070"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47821,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2070\/revisions\/47821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}