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Cristina Acosta is a visual artist and entrepreneur working in a variety of paint mediums. Her artwork includes painting, book illustrating, ceramic tile and tableware designer, interior designer color expert, art educator and author of Paint Happy!.

Early Life

Born in Los Angeles, California, Sept. 23, 1959. Acosta is the great granddaughter of Mexican American actor, Enrique Acosta.

Career

During the 1980s she was the outdoor advertising billboard sign artist for the sign company, Carlson Sign in Bend, Oregon. Computer print technology developments made the sign painting profession obsolete. Acosta then taught art classes at Central Oregon Community College in Bend, while developing her signature ceramic tile line as an entrepreneur. She distributed her tiles through her company, Cristina Acosta Art & Design, llc, to Ann Sacks Tile and Stone, and Home Depot Expo stores in the 1990s.

A Latina artist of Mexican American and European heritage, Acosta was positioned as a Latina artist in the 1990s-2010, before Latina artists were nationally visible in the home decor market. Other licensed home decor artists such as Laurel Birch, Susan Sargent, and Vera Neumann were all white women who dominated licensed home decor. The interior design industry has historically excluded people of color, being predominately white male, then white female dominated.

Acosta designed and produced ceramic tile patterns and motifs and began licensing her designs into other products such as floor mats and greeting cards. National magazines featured her ceramic hand painted designs, often emphasizing her Mexican American heritage as a Latina.

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1. Acosta, Cristina (2002). Paint Happy! (2 ed.). Cincinatti, Ohio, USA: North Light Books. pp. all. ISBN 1-58180-118-1.
2. Williams Guiterrez, Cindy (2019). Inlay with Nacre - The Names of Forgotten Women. Detroit, Michigan, USA: Willow Books. pp. cover. ISBN 978-1-7322091-1-4.
3. Steven Hodges, Suzanne Schlosberg (2017). Jane and the Giant Poop. O'Regan Press. pp. Illustrator: Cristina Acosta, all pages. ISBN 978-0990877448.
4. Steven Hodges, Suzanne Schlosberg (2017). Bedwetting and Accidents Aren't Your Fault: Why Potty Accidents Happen and How to Make Them Stop. O'Regan Press. pp. Illustrator: Cristina Acosta, all pages. ISBN 978-0990877462.
5. Remensnyder, Amy (2014). The Virgin Mary at War and Peace in the Old and New Worlds,. Oxford University Press. p. 367. ISBN 9780199892983.
6. Mitchell, Dakota (2007). Finding your Visual Voice: A Painter's Guide to Developing an Artistic Style. Cincinnati, Ohio, USA: North Light Books. ISBN 978-1581808070.
7. Keller, Gary D.; Phillips, Amy K.; Smith, Craig; Szabo, Marilyn; Phillips, Amy (2005). Triumph of our communities: four decades of Mexican American art. Tempe, AZ: Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingue. ISBN 978-1-931010-34-4.
8. Acosta, Cristina (2022). Paint Happy (2nd ed.). Cincinnati, Ohio, USA: North Light. pp. 1–110. ISBN 1-58180-118-1.
9. Goletz, Deborah (May 3, 2001). Ceramic Art Tile for the Home. Schiffer Pub Ltd. ISBN 978-0764312977.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: year (link)
10. Triplett, Kathy (December 31, 1999). Handbuilt Ceramics: Pinching, Coiling, Extruding, Molding, Slip Casting, Slab Work. Lark Books. p. 27. ISBN 978-1887374293.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: year (link)
11. Pierce, Clayton (1999). The Clay Lover's Guide to Making Molds. Asheville, North Carolina, USA: Lark Books. pp. 52, 117, . ISBN 9781579900229.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)
12. Herbers, Jill (1996). Tile. New York, USA: Artisan. p. 80. ISBN 978-1885183293.
13. Strauss, Susan (1998). When Woman Became the Sea: A Costa Rican Creation. Oregon, USA: Beyond Words Publishing. pp. Illustrator: Cristina Acosta . All pages. ISBN 978-1885223852.
14. Acosta, Cristina (Summer 2008). "Art and Spirit". Pure Inspiration (8): 70–76.
15. Jasper, David. "The Color of Happy, Crisitna Acosta;s first book, "Paint Happy!' is a handsome how-to book". Community Life. The Bulletin. Bend, Oregon: Western Communications. p. C1.
16. Decker, Edith (April 6, 1995). "Balance a Credit to Exhibit - Happy-go-lucky pups to glowing lakesides -- museum has a rounded show". Grants Pass Daily Courier. pp. Section B, Cover p. 1.