Christa Assad is a feminist artist based in Baja, Mexico. As a visual artist she spends the bulk of her time in the solitary safety of her private art studio surrounded by paints and clay. Christa was awarded a J. William Fulbright Research and Travel Grant (1993) and was nominated for the Louis Comfort Tiffany Biennial Award (2005). Her work is in the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Cafesjian Center for the Arts in Yerevan, Armenia, the Ceramic Research Center at Arizona State University Museum and the Penn State Fulbright Collection.