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Draft:Cristina Acosta, visual artist

Born in Los Angeles, California at the Queen of Angels Hospital.

Bibliography
Date Publication Article / Book Title Author Photographer

or Illustrator

page(s) Publisher
April 6, 1995 Grants Pass Daily Courier Balance a Credit to Exhibit[1] Edith Decker Gary Alvis B1 Courier Publishing Company
Summer 1995 Snow Country Snow Country Store - Happy Ceramics[2] Bob Woodward Bob Woodward 95 Miller Sports Group
No. 2, 1995 Haut Decor Florida's Own Sunny McLean[3] Nicholas, Elliot & Assoc. cover
1996 book Tile[4] Jill Herbers Roy Wright 80 Artisan, div of Workman Pub.
1998 book When Woman Became the Sea[5] Susan Strauss Cristina Acosta ALL - 36 Beyond Words Publishing
Oct 16, 1998 The Oregonian Cheap Thrills, Fun but cheap stuff for the whole gang. Costa Rican Myth[6] Rosemarie Stein 54 Advance Publications
March 1998 Cascade Arts Bend's Spring Art Hop March 6 Promises to Be Bigger & Better[7] staff Gary Alvis cover Cascade Business News
July 15, 1998 Cascade Business News Bend Summer Festival Livens Up Downtown Bend in Major Way![8] staff 15 Cascade Business News
Jan 1999 Cascade A&E Cristina Acosta Opens Gallery[9] Pamela Hulse Andrews Pamela Hulse Andrews 6 Cascade Business

News

2002 book Paint Happy![10] Cristina Acosta Cristina Acosta all North Light Books
Sept. 15, 2002 The Bend Bulletin The Color of Happy, Cristina Acosta's first book, "Paint Happy" is a handsome how-to book[11] David Jasper Pete Erickson C1 Western Communications
Winter 2003 High Desert Home & Design Wall Art, Surround yourself with color. Local artist Cristina Acosta shows you how[12] Kyla Merwin Cheney Holly Stickley 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 Bend Living
Winter 2003-04 Bend Living Wall Art, Surround yourself with color. Local artist Cristina Acosta shows you how[13] Kyla Merwin Cheney Holly Stickley 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 Bend Living
April 21, 2004 Newport News Times, National Library Week celebration continues[14] staff Gary Alvis B4 Country Media
2005 book Triumph of Our Communities, Four Decades of Mexican American Art[15] Gary D. Keller and Amy Phillips Kevin Kubota 16 Bilingual Press/

Editorial Bilingüe

August 11, 2005 El Hispanic News Cristina Acosta, El artista como creador[16] Aunjhelle Crooms Gary Alvis Cover of Más, Musica y arte con sabor El Hispanic News, Portland, OR
Dec. 22, 2005 The Oregonian

Homes & Gardens

An artist revels in her heritage & Visions Of Joy[17] Ruth Mullen Mary Bondarowicz cover, 8, 9, 10,10 Advance Publications
June July 2006(?) The Palette Magazine, Issue 14 The Palette Within[18] Cristina Acosta Gary Alivis 16, 17, 18, 19 The Palette Magazine; Boone, NC
2007 book Finding Your Visual Voice: a painter's guide to developing an artistic style[19] Dakota Mitchell and Lee Haroun Gary Alivis North Light Books, F&W Publications
Summer 2008 Pure Inspiration Art and Spirit[20] Cristina Acosta Gary Alvis 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76 Lightstream Publishing llc
2014 book La Conquistador, The Virgin Mary at War and Peace in the Old and New Worlds[21] Amy Remensnyder Gary Alvis 367, 368 Oxford University Press
April 12, 2015 The Desert Sun A Colorful Life[22] Rosalie Murphy Rosalie Murphy Sec. E cover, 2E Gannet
2019 book Inlay with Nacre, The Names of Forgotten Women[23] Cindy Williams Gutiérrez Gary Alivs cover Willow Books

Cristina loved teaching, but did not follow the traditional arts education career typical to Latina Catholic girls born in 1959. Her life as a mother and career in home decor and illustration was busy. Nonetheless, she authored and illustrated, Paint Happy![10] her art instruction book featuring her brightly colored Mexican American inspired images. She contributed to: Finding Your Visual Voice: A Painter's Guide to Developing an Artistic Style, by Dakota Mitchell and Lee Haroun[19]

Cristina painted a ex-voto style retablo of La Conquistadora on a antique ponderosa panel in oil, encaustic, 22kt gold, sterling silver leaf and gold glazed vintage ceramic mosaic.[21]

In 1991, the tile company, Ann Sacks Tile and Stone, a Kohler company, distributed Cristina's new signature line of hand painted ceramic tile. Her line became featured in many home decor books, such as, "Tile"[4], by Jill Herbers.

Inspired by her grandmother, Catalina Ortiz Acosta's, New Mexican heritage, and her great-grandfather, Enrique Acosta's Mexican heritage, Cristina painted prayer paintings in the traditions of her Hispanic ancestors. Her ex-voto, "La Conquistadora, with the Puebloan Corn Maiden, Diné Spider Woman", is featured in Amy Remensnyder's landmark book, "La Conquistadora, The Virgin Mary at War and Peace in the Old and New Worlds". [21] "Inlay with Nacre, The Names of Forgotten Women",[23] by Cindy Williams Gutiérrez, features Cristina's ex-voto retablo, "La Sirena/The Green Mermaid", on the cover.

Before painting retablos, Cristina experimented with many paint mediums, ultimately mixing oils with metal leaf and encaustic mediums to create her first post-graduate exhibit at the Grants Pass Museum of Art, Grants Pass, Oregon.[1]

Putting herself through college as an itinerant sign painter, Cristina became a professional billboard mural and lettering artist at Carlson Sign in Bend, Oregon, 1989-1991.

Featured in many home decor periodicals including: Better Homes and Gardens, Paint Decor, Winter 2004.[24]; Country Sampler Decorating Ideas, Decorate with Paint, Nov., 2002[25];

Education:

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University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, BFA Painting 1988

Central Oregon Community College, Bend, Oregon, AA Fine Arts 1984. Thanks also to the following schools Cristina attended to earn her eventual BFA, San Bernardino Valley College, San Bernardino, California; Victor Valley College, Victorville, CA; Palomar College, Palomar, California.

References

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  1. ^ a b Decker, Edith (April 6, 1995). "Balance a Credit to Exhibit, Happy-go-lucky pups to glowing lakesides -- museum has a rounded show". Entertainment. Grants Pass Daily Courier. Courier Publishing Company. p. B1.
  2. ^ Woodward, Bob (Summer 1995). "Snow Country Store, Happy Ceramics". Snow Country (Summer). Trumbull, Connecticut: Miller Sports Group, llc: 95.
  3. ^ "Florida's Own Sunny McLean". Haut Decor. 2 (2). Florida: cover. 1995.
  4. ^ a b Herbers, Jill (1996). Tile. Vol. 1. New York: Artisan. p. 80. ISBN 978-1-885183-29-3.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference :4 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ Stein, Rosemary (October 16, 1998). "Cheap Thrills, Fun but cheap stuff for the whole gang. Costa Rican Myth". The Oregonian. p. 54.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  7. ^ Andrews, Pamela Hulse (March 1998). "Bend's Spring Art Hop March 6 Promises to Be Bigger & Better". Cascade Arts, Dining and Entertainment. Bend, Oregon: Cascade Business News. pp. cover.
  8. ^ Andrews, Pamela Hulse (July 15, 1998). "Bend Summer Festival Livens Up Downtown Bend in Major Way!". Town & Country. Cascade Business News. Bend, Oregon: Cascade Business News. p. 15.
  9. ^ Andrews, Pamela Hulse (January 1999). "Cristina Acosta Opens Gallery". Cascade A&E. Bend, Oregon: Cascade Business News. p. 6.
  10. ^ a b Acosta, Cristina (2002). Paint Happy! [Paint Happy!]. Cincinnati, Ohio: F & W Publications, North Light Books. pp. 1–119. ISBN 1-58180-118-1.
  11. ^ Jasper, David (September 15, 2002). "The Color of Happy". Community Life. The Bulletin. Bend, Oregon: Western Communications. p. C1.
  12. ^ Cheney, Kyla Merwin. Waterston, Ellen (ed.). "Wall Art, Surround Yourself with Color. Local Artist Cristina Acosta Shows You How". High Desert Home & Design (Winter 2003). Bend, Oregon: Cutter Communications: 14, 15, 16, 17, 18.
  13. ^ Cheney, Kyla Merwin. "Wall Art, Surround Yourself with Color". Bend Living (Winter 2003-04): 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22.
  14. ^ "National Library Week celebration continues". Newport News Times. Newport, Oregon: Country Media, Inc. April 21, 2004. p. B4.
  15. ^ Keller, Gary D.; Phillips, Amy K.; Smith, Craig; Szabo, Marilyn; Phillips, Amy (2005). Triumph of our communities: four decades of Mexican American art [Triumph of Our Communities, Four Decades of Mexican American Art]. Tempe, AZ: Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingue. p. 16. ISBN 978-1-931010-34-4.
  16. ^ Crooms, Aunjhelle (August 11, 2005). Prats, Juan (ed.). "Cristina Acosta, El artista como creador". Más, Musica y Arte con Sabor. El Hispanic News. pp. cover, 4, 5.
  17. ^ Mullen, Ruth (December 22, 2005). "An artist revels in her heritage & Visions Of Joy". The Oregonian. Oregon: Advance Publications. pp. Cover, 8, 9, 10, 11.
  18. ^ Acosta, Cristina (June–July 2006). "The Palette Within". The Palette Magazine (Art instruction) (14). Boone, North Carolina: 14, 15, 16, 17, 18.
  19. ^ a b Mitchell, Dakota; Haroun, Lee (2007). Finding your visual voice: a painter's guide to developing an artistic style (1st ed.). Cincinnati, Ohio: North Light Books. ISBN 978-1-58180-807-0. OCLC 71173780.
  20. ^ Acosta, Cristina. "Art and Spirit". Pure Inspiration. Summer 2008 (8). Lightstream Publishing: 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76.
  21. ^ a b c Remensnyder, Amy (2014). La Conquistadora, The Virgin Mary at War and Peace in the Old and New Worlds. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. pp. 367, 368. ISBN 978-0-19-989298-3.
  22. ^ Murphy, Rosalie (April 12, 2015). "A Colorful Life, Cristina Acosta's bright world is a reflection of the artist's discipline she learned as a child". The Desert Sun. Garnett. pp. 1E, 2E.
  23. ^ a b Williams Gutierrez, Cindy (2019). Inlay with Nacre: The Names of Forgotten Women. Editor's choice. Detroit, MI: Willow Books, div. Aquarius Press. pp. cover. ISBN 978-1-7322091-1-4.
  24. ^ King, Heidi Tyline. "For the Fun of it! Artist Cristina Acosta offers a fairy-tale guide to painting ceramics "as if you own the paint store."". Better Homes and Gardens, Paint Decor (Winter 2004). Meredith Corporation: 20–31.
  25. ^ Dienel, Eva; Stickley, Holly (photographer). "Waves of Inspiration, Drawing Upon the Diverse Splendor of the West Coast Landscape, Artist Cristina Acosta Brings Energy and Flow to Her Oregon Home". Country Sampler Decorating Ideas, Decorate with Paint. November 2002: 43-53 and cover.

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  2. ^ Hodges, M.D., Steven; Schlossberg, Suzanne; et al. (Steven Hodges, M.D., Suzanne Schlossberg, illustrated by Cristina Acosta) (2015). Bedwetting and Accidents Aren't Your Fault. O'Regan Press. pp. 1–35. ISBN 978-09908774-0-0.
  3. ^ Strauss, Susan; Acosta, Cristina; et al. (Susan Straus, illustrated by Cristina Acosta) (1998). When Woman Became the Sea [When Woman Became the Sea]. Hillsboro, Oregon: Beyond Words Publishing. pp. 1–36. ISBN 1-885223-85-4.
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  6. ^ Schlosberg, Suzanne; Hodges, M.D., Steven; et al. (Suzanne Schlosberg and Steve Hodges, M.D., Illustrations by Cristina Acosta) (2019). Jane and the Giant Poop [Jane and the Giant Poop]. O'Reagan Press (published 2017). ISBN 978-0-9908774-4-8.
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