Teresa Ghiglino

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Teresa Ghiglino received her Master's in Fine Arts from American University. She has received a number of prestigious awards, such as the 2004 Mayor's Arts Award for Outstanding Contribution to Arts Education, The Alma Thomas Award and the Glassman Award. In 2005, Ms. Ghiglino was invited to evaluate "Arte Latino: Invention and Innovation" a new educational program at the National Museum of American Art. She was also a Fellow for the Kennedy Center's Arts Edge Program. From 1993 to 1995, the DC Commission of the Arts and the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts awarded Ms. Ghiglino multiple grants for her work in the visual arts. In 1998, she was named the District of Columbia's Winning Teacher by Coca Cola. Currently, she teaches drawing, painting, and ceramics at Arlington Public Schools.

Her work has been exhibited in Argentina, Peru and in the United States. Locally, her art has been on display at the Museum of Latin American Art "Las Americas", Organization of American States, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Mexican Cultural Institute, NASA, District of Columbia Arts Community, Washington Project for the Arts, Alla Rogers Gallery, Fondo del Sol and Northern
Virginia Community College. Ms. Ghiglino's work has been purchased by organizations such as the Pan American Health Organization and the Inter-American Development Bank.

About her work
This current work was inspired by the oldest rag dolls found in Chancay, Peru. These dolls where found in tombs of adults only. Currently, 500 original dolls are on display at Museum Amano in Lima, Peru. Her work shows the full spectrum of emotions in eerie and fantastic scenes what is evident is that her work emerges with a visual code .