“She would have these buckets of them, and they stunk. For example, her current painting is inspired by a childhood memory of shelling peas at her great-great-grandmother’s house. Working on canvas allows her to express and convey her personal stories. I didn’t grow up that way, so it was very hard for me to relate to that,” she said. “My practice is focused on the beauty and aspects of Black life, showing people in a positive light versus the stereotypical lifestyle-like gang affiliations, drugs, no father figure-that you see in the media. She hones her craft in a studio located just behind Patten House, which sits across Palmetto Street from the Fine Arts Center. Spinks is a University of Tennessee at Chattanooga senior pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting and Drawing. My life as a Black American is different than another.” “Whether I use my family, friends or myself as the subject, my work explores my identity, my perception of life, and what it is like to be Black in America,” she wrote in her artist statement, “I use the word ‘Black’ very loosely for the simple fact that though I am a Black woman, I cannot speak for all Black women or Black Americans in general. It’s the life Tamia Spinks knows and the only one she can identify with. The walls in her studio are adorned with paintings of family, friends and self-portraits of her own experiences in life.
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