About: Artist Juanita Tumelaire

B.A., University of Louisville, Kentucky
M.S. Education, State University College, Buffalo, New York

After earning her bachelor degree, Juanita joined the Peace Corps. There began her travels through many countries across the world. She taught English as a Second Language and was art editor of Any Boluntaryo as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Philippines. From there she traveled overland through Asia, the Middle East, and Europe before ending up in Boston. For several years she and her husband lived abroad after finishing their graduate degrees. They spent time in Afghanistan, Iran, and Nepal. She taught, and then became Dean of Students at the Walnut Hill School for the Performing Arts in Massachusetts.

Juanita studied printmaking, and became a founding member of Partners in Printmaking, a group of women exhibiting in the Boston area. Juanita became a full time artist after relocating to Chattanooga. She currently exhibits, as well as conducts printmaking residencies through Association for Visual Arts, Allied Arts and The Tennessee Arts Commission. She is the President Emeritus of Association for Visual Arts. In addition to having work in the archive of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, she was awarded the N.A.W.A. Genius Foundation Medal of Honor in Printmaking.

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