Tori Arpad-Cotta’s site-based practice ranges deep, into the rusted remnants of farms past, and far into the as yet unbuilt places accessible only by foot and kayak. She has worked as Artist-in-Residence in AIRIE–Everglades National Park, the Center for Land Use, and Land Arts of the American West, a field-study program at University of New Mexico. Arpad-Cotta received a Florida State Cultural Council Artist’s Fellowship and NCECA Emerging Artist Award. Exhibitions include the Shumen Biennial, Bulgaria, and others internationally since 1996. Her work is featured in Land Arts of the American West by Bill Gilbert & Chris Taylor, Confrontational Ceramics by Judith S. Schwartz, and Ceramics: Mastering the Craft by Richard Zakin. Arpad-Cotta teaches art at Florida International University, chairs the Art + Art History Department, and works the earth on a few acres in the Redland Agricultural District.
