Tinka Jordy has been working as a professional artist for 31 years and her work is exhibited and collected internationally. Tinka received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1977 after attending Cleveland Institute of Art and the Kansas City Art Institute. Tinka has also worked as designer and has won numerous awards for product design.

 

Recent exhibitions include: Cedar Creek Gallery, Spring Sculpture Show 2008 1150 Fleming Rd Creedmoor NC Carol Robinson Gallery 840 Magazine Street New Orleans, LA. March 1st thru March 29th 2008 Solo Sculpture Show "Looking Toward Spring" Solo Sculpture Show, Durham Art Guild, Durham, NC Febuary 2007 Fayetteville Museum of Art 35th Annual Juried Exhibition March 2007 Solo Sculpture Show titled " A Sense of Place" at Carol Robinson Gallery, New Orleans, LA. October, 2006. Green Hill Center for North Carolina Arts, Winter Invitational, December, 2006, Greensboro, NC Solo Sculpture Exhibition at the Durham Arts Council, Durham, NC February 2007 Other recent exhibitions include... A Solo Sculpture Show titled "Lighting of The Fire" at Cedar Creek Gallery April 2006. A Sculpture Invatational at Alamance County Art's Council, Graham, NC June 2006 Garden Art Gallery's Twelfth Annual Sculpture Invitational, April 30th and May 1st, 2006 The Caldwell Arts Councils 17th Annual Sculpture Celebration The North Carolina Botanical Gardens 16th Annual Sculpture in the Garden Invitational The Women's Center 19th Annual Juried Exhibition. "Through Women's Eyes by Women's Hands" The Fayetteville Museum of Art's Thirty First Annual Competition for North Carolina Artists Exhibition Garden Art Galleries Eleventh Annual Art In the Garden Sculpture Invitational, May 2005 Cedar Creek Gallery, Triangle Treasures, 21 Premier Artists of the Triangle Area

Ms Jordy's exhibitions include participation in the China Foshan International Ceramics Conference, October, 2002:
Contemporary Ceramic Art and Design in the Global Village
Prominent artists worldwide were invited to create new works in a spirit of artistic and cultural exchange of ideas and techniques.
Tinka Jordy's Sculpture "Woman with Children" was selected for the Permanent Collection of the Shiwan Ceramic Museum Shiwan, China.

Selected sponsors of the conference include:
Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing
Guangzhou Academy of Fine Art
National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts
The Peoples Government of Foshan International Academy of Ceramics
Institute of Interior Design of Architectural Society of China
National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts

Sorrow Averted 60 "H

"Women With Children"

16"x24"x12"

	'Facing Forward' 40"x20"x24"

Going Home

'Autumn'.

	'Listening In' 60" H

"STRIKING"... "NOTEWORTHY..."
"Jordy's Exhibit is an impressive,uplifting one,catering to popular taste while adroitly avoiding cloying or obvious sentiments"

Roger Green, Art Critic NEW ORLEANS TIMES-PICAYUNE
Review of previous solo sculpture show at Carol Robinson Gallery, New Orleans, La

Designed by Tinka Jordy these unique hand-crafted and signed Limited Edition Sculpture/Torches are individually sculpted and hand glazed. Kiln Fired to 2,200 degrees, the sculptures are durable for outdoor use "Clay from the earth and the ritual fire that warms the spirit combine in a sculpture that will last a lifetime..."

	'EGRETS'

	'BLUE BOY'

"A DELIGHTFUL EXPERIENCE..."
"... "This exhibition is about the combination of art and nature, about materials that will withstand rain and sun and about sharing your collection with those who walk or ride by".

Blue Greenberg Art critic DURHAM HERALD SUN
Review of The City Gardeners Sculpture Invitational

Bronze Llama

Image of Tinka Jordy courtesy of Catharine Carter, Catharine Carter Photography
Copyright © 2002-2004 Catharine Carter Photography, All Rights Reserved.

Tinka Jordy