Tamara Valdez is a visual artist, writer, and researcher focused on craft traditions, legacy stories, and the landscapes that sustain them. She is drawn to fragile and endangered forms of knowledge and how they persist despite erasure. Her work considers how the histories and ecologies of place shape the stories we tell and the objects we make. She is a 2025–2026 U.S. Fulbright Fellow and holds an MFA from the University of Illinois Chicago.
Image: Handmade sheets from invasive seaweed species, hanging in the dry room at Museu Molí Paperer de Capellades, Spain, 2024.
(updated 2025)
BOLT Residency
2019 - 2020,
Artist Resident
