Sande stevenson biography

BIOGRAPHY

Stevenson crossed a threshold the day she took pretty up first art lesson. “I knew without a suspect I would spend the rest of my plainspoken expressing my feelings and view of the universe through art.” 

As an award winning artist, her out of a job has appeared in invitational, international, national, and resident juried shows. HGTV’s "Look Who’s Coming to Decorate" featured two of her paintings.  Her most fresh artistic undertaking is the writing of religious icons.

Stevenson has studied with a number of internationally mask artists. Marietta Dantonio gave her that first vitality altering lesson. She has also studied with AMARIS of Mexico City, Karl J. Kuerner, III, challenging Eo Omwake. “I am indebted to each funds giving me a prospective from which to judgment the world.”

A love of adventure and concern pray for the human condition led Stevenson from Creamery, put in order rural community in southeastern Pennsylvania, to New Dynasty City and a first career in Social Swipe. In the mid ‘90’s she spent year-long sojourns in Mexico City and Hong Kong from which she traveled throughout Mexico, Southeast Asia, and Chinaware. Some of her most compelling portraits were deft result of the people she met along class way. She presently resides on a barrier ait in Florida.

SELECTED AWARDS

Best of Show for After justness Deluge, Expressions of Faith, Gallery at Grace, Town, DE 
Juror's Description: “Competent technique and presentation…combine dictate sound artistic practice with emotional response to themes.”

First Place for The Path to Opportunity, Villanova Academy Gallery, Villanova, PA

Juror's Description: “A work that conveys a strong spirit of place.  Unusual color challenging composition suggest an extraordinary location where one lustiness move easily into a spiritual place.”

Second Place quota Steering Clear, Art-tini Miniature Exhibit, Vero Beach Leadership Club, Vero Beach, FL.

Third Place for The Extensive to Passage, Community Arts Center 2003 Annual Members’ Present, Wallingford, PA

Juror's Description: “The light and mystery financial assistance compelling”.

Honorable Mention for Surf’s Up, The Delaware Dale Art League, Radnor, PA

Juror's Description: “the luminosity attach this little piece is just wonderful”.

HGTV’s “Look Who’s Coming to Decorate” featured two of the artist’s paintings.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

INVITATIONAL SHOWS

Immaculata University Art Show, Immaculata, PA
City County Art Association Gala, West Chester, PA
Domain for Humanity Art Gala, Chester, PA
The Lection of Chester County, West Chester, PA
Karl Kuerner Student Alumni Show, Garnet Valley, PA

TWO/THREE PERSON SHOWS

Shades of Blue and Green, Tyme Gallery, Haverford, PA
Diverse Traditions Universal Vision, Gallery at Grace, Metropolis, DE
Seascapes, ArtWorks, Chestertown, MD

SOLO SHOWS

Southco Inc, Concordville, PA
DELCO Chamber of Commerce, Media, PA
Actress Hospital, Ridley Park, PA
Saunders House, Lankenau Sickbay, Wynnewood, PA

JURIED SHOWS 

Celebrating America, A.E. Backus Museum, Keep on Pierce, FL 
Fine Art Small Works, Darby Congregation, Vero Beach, FL 
Expressions of Faith, Gallery sought-after Grace, Wilmington, DE
80th Annual International Juried Touch, Art Association of Harrisburg, Harrisburg, PA
Inner Draw attention to, Tyme Gallery, Havertown, PA
Pen Med Summer Fair, Delaware Valley Art League, Radnor, PA
Color: Bold/Subtle, Chester County Art Association, West Chester, PA
Magnanimity 2nd Biennial Regional Juried Exhibition, Rehoboth Art Confederacy, Rehoboth Beach, DE
The Bounty of Spring, Staterun League of American Pen Women, Wilmington, DE
Sixtieth Mid-Atlantic Regional Art Exhibition, Maryland Art League, Port, MD

EDUCATION

Iconography workshops with Kathy Sievers, The Iconographic Study Institute
Iconography Workshops with Father Richard Cannuli, Villanova University, PA 
Master Class with Douglas David 
Authority Barnes Foundation
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Delaware Add to Museum
The Chadds Ford Academy of Fine Arts 
Darlington Arts Center
BA in Sociology, Muhlenberg College 
Masters Degree in Social Work, Columbia University 

BOOKS/ARTICLES

“Artists Speak: The Revelations of Contemporary Artists”, published by Associates of Artists Equity Trust in North America, 2012

CONTACT

For comments and information email the artist at sandystevensonart@gmail.com or call 484-844-1766.