Patricia

  "Sabina"

       Muñoz

Has been involved in art since she was 8 years old. From 2003-2006 she was the art teacher at a private High School in El Paso and has worked for the Canutillo School District an art instructor in completing several student mural projects.  As well as participating in numerous workshops in the US and Mexico, she has received formal art training at the School of Interior Design in Chihuahua, Mexico, and the University of Texas in El Paso. Sabina’s work explores themes of regional cultures, archeology, and native landscapes in mediums ranging from watercolors and acrylics to glass and ceramics.

As a citizen of both Mexico and the US, she has taught and exhibited her work in Cuernavaca, Mexico City, Chihuahua, Juarez, Acapulco, Ixtapa, Casas Grandes, McAllen, El Paso, New Mexico, and California.  She has completed commissions for Price Waterhouse Cooper in Juarez and the International Gem Plus Company in Mexico City.  Her “Tierra Y Vida” (18’ x 60’) and “Sol Rojo” (20’x 70’) broken tile mosaics for the City of Juarez MX are two of the largest tile mosaic works in the border region. 

Her recent interest has taken her into glass mosaic techniques as well as broken tile, which she has taught in Juarez, El Paso, and Casas Grandes.  She has completed mosaic commissions in El Paso for the Franklin High School (4’x8’,“The Cougar”), the Pelican Restaurant (4’x8’, “Under Sea Garden”), for Kenna and Carlos Ramirez (“Sun Fountain”), and in the Copper Canyon for the Hotel Mirador (4’x7’, “The Nopal Landscape”).  In the spring of 2006 her glass mosaic piece, “The Water Tree”, was featured in the “Women Without Borders” exhibit sponsored by the Consulate General of Mexico in El Paso.  Currently, she has her own studio/gallery in Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, where she has been producing acrylic paintings and glass mosaics, and is working on a mosaic commission for the Adair Margo Gallery in El Paso.