dina’s story

Dina Perlasca is a Mexican American artist from The Paso del Norte Region, where she grew up on the border of Mexico and the U.S. Dina lives with her children in El Paso Texas, border of Cd. Juarez Chihuahua Mexico, to where she travels often for family visits. Dina has an active studio practice at Bravo Studios in the Research Interdisciplinary Building at The University of Texas at El Paso. She obtained her BFA in Ceramics form The University of Texas at El Paso and her MFA in Ceramics at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces NM. Dina has had the opportunity to work in diverse institutions and places that are convergent with her creative lifestyle and path. She has been a secretary to a 52-teacher elementary military school at Sgt. Roberto Ituarte for the Socorro Independent school district in El Paso TX, she has been a ceramic sculpture instructor at the El Paso Museum of Art in her undergraduate years as well as an Art Consultant in the Gadsden District in Santa Teresa NM. Dina has also ventured into personal creative adventures such as being the ranch manager for 2 years at her grandfather’s Hacienda Xicalango in the middle of the Huastecan jungle mountains, at the heart of the Mexican Republic in the State of Hidalgo. She is currently teaching undergraduate ceramics and design at The University of Texas at El Paso, New Mexico State University in Las Cruces NM, and at Eastern New Mexico University in Portales NM. Perlasca is constantly exhibiting her artwork regionally and nationally and holds the Student Director At Large position for the 2021 – 2023 National Council on Education for the Ceramics Arts (NCECA).

She is currently working towards:

-       Force Fields:  solo exhibition at the Roswell Museum in Roswell NM summer of 2023.

-       Circuit: Virtual Clay Collective group exhibition for the NCECA March of 2023 National Conference in Cincinnati Ohio.

-       Faculty Show – Stanlee Gerald Rubin Center. Faculty exhibition for the Art Department at The University of Texas at El Paso in El Paso TX.

-       El Paso local clay research project – Co-leader with Ceramic Associate Professor Vincent Burke in  El Bravo Studios clay research and  El Paso community outreach projects in the Interdisciplinary Research Center at The University of Texas at El Paso in El Paso TX.

-       Las Artistas – A class mentorship program geared towards ceramic art students professional practices, community outreach and leadership in the local art field. Las Artistas and UTEP Ceramics partner to hold the UTEP Ceramics Students pottery booth at the Annual Art event: Las Artistas on November 19&20 of 2022.