From the Cooper Union Alumni Website:
Marina Gutierrez is a multidisciplinary artist from New York City with a practice that combines community-based work, public, and studio arts. Her work interweaves historical, individual, and ecological narratives, often adapting folk forms and postindustrial or recycled materials within a conceptual framework.
Entering Cooper Union as a student with pre-existing experience in community arts, Gutierrez began working with the Saturday Program in 1978. Upon graduation in 1981, she became Saturday Program Director. By expanding the program and creating a supportive infrastructure, to ensure excellence in the team of undergraduate instructors, a creative community was formed. This Saturday Program community has made it possible for over 12,000 diverse New York City public high school students to gain a footing into higher education and into professional arts.
Marina is a recipient of Joan Mitchel, NYFA and Mid-Atlantic Fellowships, L.M.C.C.’s Swing Space, Governors Island residency, and two N.Y.C. Arts Commission Design Awards for public projects in East Harlem’s De Burgos Center and Prospect Park’s Imagination Playground. She is the 2020 recipient of the CUAA Peter Cooper Public Service Award and was inducted into the Cooper Union Hall of Fame in February 2020.
Marina’s submission to COVID-19 PAGES is a multi-media work on paper entitled Rose-colored Spectacles – pandemic view.
To visit COVID-19 PAGES: The Influence & Inspiration of Women, click on the following link: https://wellsinternationalfoundation.org/covid-19-pages-exhibit/
