March 15 to August 9, 2024

Tanya Aguiñiga at her 2018 solo exhibition, Craft & Care, at the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD), New York. Photo by Jenna Bascom.

This Year’s Juror

The Erie Art Museum, in partnership with the VASE (Visiting Artist and Speaker Endowment) committee at PennWest Edinboro University, is excited to announce Tanya Aguiñiga as the Spring Show 2024 juror and 25th Annual VASE presenter who will deliver a free, public lecture on March 13, 2024 at the university's Alexander Recital Hall.

Tanya Aguiñiga was born in 1978 in San Diego, California, and raised in Tijuana, Mexico. An artist, designer, and craftsperson, Aguiñiga works with traditional craft materials like natural fibers and collaborates with other artists and activists to create sculptures, installations, performances, and community-based art projects. Drawing on her upbringing as a binational citizen, who daily crossed the border from Tijuana to San Diego for school, Aguiñiga’s work speaks of the artist’s experience of her divided identity and aspires to tell the larger and often invisible stories of the transnational community.

Meet The Juror @ PennWest Edinboro

Visit the William P. Alexander Music Center on the PennWest - Edinboro campus on Wednesday, March 13th from 6:30 - 8 pm to listen to the 101st Annual Spring Show Juror, Tanya Aguiñiga, speak.