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 Sandra Rowe is a
Riverside resident who received her BA from Cal State University,
Fresno and her MFA from UC Irvine. She is a visual artist, writer,
consultant, curator and educator. As a longtime collaborator with
the Arts Council, she was one of the first artists to work in the
Arts & Minds artist residency program. Sandra is also active in
public art, and worked with local children to create the concrete
etchings in front of the California Tower
on the Main Street Pedestrian Mall. Sandra’s work has been
included in exhibitions in Japan, the United States, Paris, Cuba
and Nigeria. She has won awards from the National Endowment for
the Arts and the Los Angeles Center for Contemporary Art.
Formerly, Sandra was an Associate Professor at California State
Polytechnic University at Pomona and has also taught at UC
Riverside Extension.
Throughout her
long and varied career, Sandra has managed to find time to create
challenging, meaningful work and encourage others to do the same.
She has deftly juggled family life, a university teaching career,
studio work, and community outreach to become an internationally
renowned artist. She feels compelled to serve on state, local, and
national boards and panels to help further the arts for all
people.
Her career has
many firsts: the first African American President of the Southern
California Women’s Caucus for Art, and the first African American
artist to have a solo exhibition at the Riverside Art Museum and
at the Richmond Gallery in Richmond, Indiana, her hometown.
Whether she’s
serving on the California State Architect’s Panel to select
artists for the Caltrans Building
in LA or judging a local art competition, teaching at a university
or in a third-grade classroom, she brings a sensitivity, breadth
of knowledge, and respect for the power of the arts to transform
our communities.
Sandra’s art
investigates the use of language and imagery in relation to issues
such as racism, sexism and other social injustices, as well as her
personal history as an African-American, a mother, wife, artist
and homemaker.
She is active in
the community as a speaker, arts consultant on public arts issues,
grant panelist, arts advocate and board member of arts
organizations. Locally, she has served on the boards of the
Riverside Arts Council, UCR California Museum of Photography, and
Sweeny Art Gallery.
Artist Picture by: Michael J. Elderman
Orange Picture by:
Carla Conti Bender |
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