Christina Renfer Vogel earned a MFA in painting from the Massachusetts College of Art and a BFA in painting from Tyler School of Art, Temple University. In her work, she pursues interaction and perception from her role as observer, interested in the unremarkable and in the relationships that exist within our everyday exchanges. Drawing from the quotidian and familiar, Christina navigates the space between seeing and describing, interpretation and invention. She has exhibited widely including recent solo exhibitions at Augsburg College (Minneapolis, Minn.), The University of the South (Sewanee, Tenn.) and Berry College (Mt. Berry, Ga.). Christina has been an artist-in-residence at the Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts, the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. She is a recipient of awards including a UTC Research and Creative Activity Grant, a Nebraska Arts Council Independent Artist Fellowship, and a grant from the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation. She joined the faculty at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in 2013 where she serves as assistant professor of painting and drawing.