tatiana potts

b. 1971 Brezno, Slovakia; lives and works in Oak Ridge, Tennessee

Tatiana Potts is a native of Slovakia. In her early twenties she studied English for two years in the United Kingdom, and then worked for a non-profit organization in Slovakia. Later, she completed a BA degree from Clemson University with majors in Spanish Language and International Trade. She studied printmaking at the University of North Carolina, Asheville and received her BFA in 2009 and her MFA degree in printmaking at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 2016. She currently teaching at

 She was awarded the Herman E. Spivey Humanities Graduate Fellowship. She spent a month in Poland through the UTK exchange program with the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wroclaw. In 2022, she participated in a one month lithography workshop at Tamarind, NM. She exhibited her work nationally and internationally.This Spring, some of her artist books will be exhibited at International Printmaking and Book Arts conference in Wroclaw, Poland and Blowing Rock Art and History Museum, NC. Her work is in a number of galleries, publications, and collections, including the Victoria and Albert Museum, UK; Printmaking Today magazine, UK; International Print Center New York, and the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan. Currently, she teaches at Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC printmaking and book arts.