Tina Fuentes (born 1949) is an American artist known for her aggressive, bold contemporary paintings.
She is currently a professor in the School of Art at Texas Tech University where she was the creator of the annual undergraduate show.
[3] Fuentes helped organize first annual Dia de los Muertos procession in Lubbock in the late 1990s.
[10] Since 2014, Fuentes has been collaborating with Eric Bruning, an associate professor of atmospheric science at Texas Tech, on a five-year interdisciplinary initiative on severe weather funded by a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation.
[11] The collaboration resulted in two large exhibitions in late 2017, Marcando el relampago at the Museum of Texas Tech University and Nubes tan negras at the Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts.