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Agustina is an artist and designer with a passion for the natural world. She is originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina and was raised in Germany and the United States.

She recieved her Bachelor’s of Landscape Architecture from the University of Georgia in Athens in spring 2011. She has been as a cook, traveler, potter, and landscape designer. Her passions include native plants, ecological design, ceramics, life outdoors, and movement.

I pursue anything that strengthens our connection to the earth and to each other. We don’t just observe the world, we are in a reciprocal relationship with it. 

Agustina has practiced in various ceramic open studios and attended the Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina. Her landscape design and restoration work has taken her from the east coast in Savannah to the mountains of Virginia and in-between. She currently resides in Gunnison, Colorado and is inspired by a wonderful community of people in the Gunnison Valley committed to the land and their craft.