Renata Cassiano Alvarez is a Mexican-Italian artist born in Mexico City and currently the Visiting Assistant Professor in ceramics at the University of Arkansas. Cassiano Alvarez works predominantly in the medium of clay. Educated in Mexico, Italy, Denmark and the US, she has had the opportunity to work in different artistic environments in a cross-cultural and multimedia experience. Her work has been exhibited internationally and can be found in public and private collections in Mexico, Estonia, Italy, Taiwan, Germany, Denmark, Latvia, China, USA and Slovenia. She works between her studio in Veracruz, Mexico and Springdale, Arkansas.