Tiffany is an entrepreneur and an Associate Professor of Design, Film & Media at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle. She finds several ways to merge her interests and collaborations that embrace experimentation, innovation and exploration through video, animation, photography, book arts, apparel and graphic design in the visual and academic arts.
Her research interests explore the intersection between design, narrative and perception. She is a multimedia artist who approaches each project with an inquiry to the relationship between form and function. She has a corporate background as a merchandiser and buyer for several home furnishing retailers including Pottery Barn and Anthropologie. These positions became catalysts for her explorations into psychology, design and storytelling. Experimenting with narrative concepts in a retail environment with a sole purpose to commodify lifestyle objects with varying levels of practicality, inspired her to pursue an MFA with a focus on media studies, storytelling and how design in general can affect the human psyche. She holds her MFA in Graphic Design from Rhode Island School of Design. She also has a Collegiate Teaching Certification from Brown University.
Her visual work has been featured in multiple galleries including the Paul Robeson gallery, the Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, the Sol Coffer gallery, the Tap Room and Smoke Farm. Her award winning film and animation collaborations have run in several festivals including Seattle’s True Independent Film Festival, the Tribeca Film Festival, the Mill Valley Film Festival, The Lincoln Center NYC, Vancouver Women in Film, the Chicago Underground Film Festival and Cinequest 2011. Her clients and academic collaborators include: Malik Isasis, Isaac Marion, Simon and Schuster, The NCHERM Group, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Northwest Film Forum, CityArts Magazine, the Seattle International Film Festival, KEXP, Starbucks and Amazon.
Vaughan Oliver (1957–2019) is her absolute most favorite graphic designer and Simon Larbalestier is a huge photographic influence along with Sally Mann, Martha Rosler, Julia Margaret Cameron and Joel-Peter Witkin. Edward Gorey and Nick Bantock were also huge, illustrative influences who greatly inspire her graphic approach.
You can find her wandering aimlessly through antique shops hunting for haunted vintage and antique cameras.
She is very in tune with her spirit animal, the otter.