Trish Ramsay

Trish Ramsay
Instructor of Drawing and Sculpture

Trish Ramsay lives in Huntsville, TX and is an instructor of Drawing and Sculpture at Sam Houston State University. She holds degrees in Metals from Syracuse University, NY (MFA) and the University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA (BFA).

Her creative research involves collaborative and community-engaged approaches to art making, and place-based learning through creative practice. Projects include Time & Cloth, a collaboration of wearable works with Cornell University Draper/Designer Catherine Blumenkamp, and her ongoing interdisciplinary work with SHSU Biology faculty for the Art + Biology + Community program, developed to serve students and teachers in Walker County, TX.

She has created and led study abroad coursework in Japan for fibers and papermaking, and conducted ethnographic fieldwork with students studying Navajo and Chimayo weaving traditions in New Mexico. She has also lived and worked in Finland at the Fiskars Artist Cooperative, researching Finnish textiles and felt-making traditions.

Her artwork explores the push and pull of spatial, gestural, and relational states of being. She works conceptually where the mundane, subliminal, and dramatic collide—creating visual spaces where viewers may insert their own meanings. Her use of pliant materials such as textiles, wax, pigment, wood, and metal allows her to explore tension between flat and dimensional, drawn and constructed—blurring the lines between drawing, object, and environment.