Tina Ingraham is an American educator, painter, and mentor. Ingraham was born in Kenton, Ohio in 1947. She received her M.F.A. from Brooklyn College of CUNY in 1996 and B.S. in design at the University of Cincinnati, College of DAAP in 1970. Influenced by three years of living in Perugia Italy, Ingraham’s study of Renaissance painting and fresco is evident in her warm palette, fascination with surface and vivid perception of nature. She is a recipient of many awards, including grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, Maine Commission for the Arts and Pollock Krasner Foundation. She is a Fellow at the MacDowell and was in residence in 1999. She has taught in a variety of teaching environments including Bowdoin College, Stephens College, Brooklyn College, and painting workshops in Italy, Colorado and Maine. Commissions of note include the Myron Edward Ullman III family portrait collection and the portrait of Joshua Chamberlain commissioned by Bowdoin College. Ingraham has taught in a wide variety of teaching environments in both academia and in privately organized workshops since 1972. She taught as visiting assistant professor at Stephens College and Bowdoin College, and as a Charles B. Shaw Award recipient, a teaching fellowship at Brooklyn College. She also taught at Maine College of Art, The International School of Painting, Drawing and Sculpture in Italy, and Hyde School. Many of her students have emerged successful in their careers by developing businesses, gaining gallery representation, and being awarded scholarship for study and entrance into undergraduate and graduate programs. Ingraham has received numerous awards, grants, fellowships, and painted at various artist’s residencies devoting herself to rigorous painting schedules for prolonged periods of time. She is currently writing The Oil Painter’s Handbook: Palettes, Process, Language featuring It’s on the Palette her originally designed process of teaching color theory in paint. She has studied with painters Lennart Anderson, Daniel Greene, Paul Gianfagna, Marjorie Portnow, Barbara Grossman and Hugh Odonnell. Her interest in painting history was largely informed by her study with art historians Michael Mallery and Jack Flam.
Tina Ingraham
Studios
Cheney
Tina Ingraham worked in the Cheney studio.
Cheney Studio was given to MacDowell by Mrs. Benjamin P. Cheney and Mrs. Karl Kauffman. Like Barnard Studio, Cheney is a low, broadly massed bungalow. Sited on a steep westward slope, its porches are supported on wooden posts and fieldstone with lattices. Although it still retains its appealing character, the original design of the shingled building…