Christina Weaver grew up in Birmingham, Alabama. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 2012, and a Master’s Degree in Painting from Indiana University Bloomington in 2014. Christina paints observationally and abstractly within the broad boundaries of contemporary still life. Her work is exhibited nationwide in group and solo exhibitions, and her works are part of private collections in the United States and abroad. She has been awarded the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant for artists who work traditionally, and in 2012 she was featured in the Southwest Art Magazine as one of the “21 under 31: Young Artists to Collect”. Christina was recently an artist-in-residence at Manifest Gallery in Cincinnati, and in 2016 she taught drawing and design at Mississippi State University. She currently lives and works near Asheville, North Carolina.