Tamsie Ringler MRSS

Tamsie Ringler studied Art at the University of Wisconsin and received her MFA in Sculpture from the University of Texas at Austin. She lives and works in Dubuque, Iowa, and is currently establishing a community foundry collective.  Her work can be found at the Pedvale Open-Air Art Museum in Latvia, the National Sculpture Factory in Cork, Ireland, and at sculpture parks in the United States. She has received numerous awards including a McKnight Fellowship in 2017. In 2021, she organized Winter is Alive! a cooler world carnival, which presented an outdoor sculpture exhibition and online forum on the climate crisis in Madison, Wisconsin. Currently she is directing Dubuque Rendezvous! a cooler world gathering, which will be a cultural platform and climate forum in Dubuque, Iowa in June 2026 on the Mississippi River. Dubuque Rendezvous!

Compassion is the material we are formed of. It is the foundation of our humanity, creating our ability to experience and empathize with others. Collaboration is its process. Our breath collaborates with the iron in our blood to carry oxygen throughout our body, our hands collaborate with materials to hold and make, our words collaborate with sound and meaning to illuminate our relationships and lives - it is this communion of experience that inspires me.