Tonya Sweet is an artist-designer and established design educator with expertise in sustainable design, design ethics and theory, and diverse fabrication practices. Tonya's current research examines the impacts of humanity’s disconnection from nature and the multitude of ways this is experienced collectively and individually.
Tonya was granted a Master of Fine Arts degree in Sculpture from the Cranbrook Academy of Art, and a Bachelor of Fine Art in Furniture Design from the Rhode Island School of Design in the United States. Her experience bridges three continents and a wide array of disciplines and making approaches including: architecture and construction, furniture design and fabrication, exhibition design and fabrication, and the design and production of illustrations, paintings, collages, and sculpture.