Artist Talk with Tina Mion

Renowned artist Tina Mion will be giving a presentation about her work and her latest art exhibition, Memento Mori. Her rich paintings truly come to life when she discusses them in detail and shares the stories behind them. Mion will walk patrons through the exhibition to discuss the works therein and share her thoughts about the show as a whole.

Tina and her husband moved to northern Arizona in 1997 to purchase and restore La Posada – architect Mary Colter’s masterpiece. They have created a thriving and nationally renowned hotel, restaurant and cultural mecca in the high desert of Winslow, Arizona.

Mion’s work is in many collections including the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery and the Nelson Atkins Museum in Kansas City MO, both of which own her Memento Mori paintings. Rather than being dark and scary her work is beautifully executed, poignant, and full of wry humor. She lived part of her childhood in an abandoned funeral home in New Jersey. Perhaps this helps explain why she has been thinking and painting about death for more than two decades.