Photo By Harmony Devoe
Tina Picz is a Filipino American multidisciplinary artist, photographer, published writer, and founder of Firefolk Arts, whose creative output stems from her passion for playfulness and collaboration. Working for 8 years in commercial food photography and product styling, creating promotional content for brands, entrepreneurs, restaurants and chefs, Tina has lived in NYC, California, Florida, Massachusetts, and Vermont, and is the daughter of a Filipina immigrant mother and Caucasian military father. Through her work, she celebrates cultural diversity, somatic creative practice, and land-based joy as an ancestral healing path— as a biracial woman, wife, and mother living in rural Vermont.
Tina's previous work has included freelance writing for print magazines and online publications, fashion design and clothing construction, coordination of multi-medium fashion shows, songwriting / singing and promoting bands, vintage clothing sales, creating photo campaign assets for brands, as well as shooting a cookbook with a Boston chef, sold internationally. Plant-Based Gourmet
The nucleus of Tina's current work is to share her values of nurturance for earth's wild places and localized social justice, through the joy of connecting to land and others via the arts, community foraging, diversified culture-sharing, and practices which center wholeness and equity. In the hopes of dispelling negative stereotypes and biases, she holds the tenet that within our differences, we find connection, healing and beauty, as we expand our understanding of ourselves, and others through artistic expression.
Tina amplifies and uplifts the voices of underrecognized artists and entrepreneurs through promotion of diversity, honoring of differences, collaborative efforts toward societal solutions, and the right to express freely, through any lens or medium sustainably available to humans.