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Sally Sweetland 
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"If I create from the heart, everything works.  If from the head, nothing..."
​Marc Chagall 

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My paintings are generated from the heart
and meant to touch the heart.      

Sally Sweetland

In his review of a solo gallery exhibit, following is an excerpt from Marc Awodey's critique:
 
While some artists seem to paint the same picture over and over again, perhaps trying to create a recognizable style, painter Sally Sweetland is aesthetically restless. Her exhibition of more than 30 oil-on-linen works at Stowe's West Branch Gallery & Sculpture Park evidences a dazzling array of painterly approaches. The diversity of Sweetland's show, entitled "Patches of Sunlight and Hope," is at first a little jarring, but ultimately it reveals conceptual complexity, nods to art history and a full spectrum of beautifully composed hues. The cumulative effect of Sweetland's paintings is as rich as the natural world to which they frequently refer.
 
 "Natural Beauty"  Published in Seven Days, Burlington Vermont, by Mark Awodey


Education
Orme School, Mayer AZ  1974
Bachelor of Arts, Univ. of Calif, Santa Cruz 1978
Master of Architecture, M.I.T. 1986
Thesis title: Place of Process: Design for a high Sierra Artworking Center
Classical art classes at El Museo De Bellas Artes,  Vina Del Mar, Chile 1980
Calif. College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland Calif. (Summer school as a kid)

Illustrations
Children's Book: God In Between; Jewish Lights Publishing, 1998 
Wall Street Journal, Illustrations for Wine Articles, 2000; 2001
Recording Art for Caroline Myss, Spiritual Madness, 1996
Cover art Kissing The Ground: Daniel Lusk's Poems, 1999
Photography for Bruce Cockburn's CD cover Breakfast in New Orleans 1999
Cover Art: You Already Know What to Do (Everyday Intuition..) by Sharon Franquemont
White Rabbit Trading Co. Commissioned Art Greeting Cards, 1997

Selected Solo Exhibitions
Rehoboth Art League, Rehoboth DE 1986
Governor Michael N. Castle's office, 1987 Wilmington, DE
Governor Howard Dean's office, 1999 Montpelier, VT
Woodstock Gallery of Art, Woodstock VT  1990, 1992
West Branch Gallery, Stowe, VT 2005
Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, VT  2003
Trinity College, Brulington VT (group show) Healing Art: From the Inside Out 1996 
Numerous exhibits in small galleries in/around Asheville NC 2008-2018

Selected Honors & Awards
The Artist's Magazine 1988 Still Life Painting Competition (Honors)
Best in Show 1995 For Art's Sake, Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, VT
Award of Merit, 1996, 2003 For Art's Sake, Helen Day Art Center
VA Center for the Creative Arts, Artist Colony award time: 1988, 1989, 1993
Vermont Studio Center, Artist colony time; numerous 1980's & 90's
For Illustrations for children's book pub. by Jewish Lights 1999 Visionary award
International Design Conference in Aspen, 1983 representing M.I.T. grad. students
(Milton Glaser, Chairman; Steve Jobs presented his visionary PC ideas then/there :)
Women Artist Calendar Art selected: 1994, 1998

Other
10K sq. ft. "Underwater" themed mural designed/painted for Old Pro golf, O.C., MD
Numerous Commissioned paintings
Collectors from N. America, Europe, S. America, Asia
20 years art workshop instructor (Salisbury Institute of Art, Md, in studio)
25 years private tutoring in my studio to solo and small groups
Donated many paintings to Hospice; fundraising
Community volunteer at Warren Wilson College 2011-2020

Etc.
Dedicated student of Evolutionary Astrology
Dual Citizen to Ireland, with thanks to both Grandmothers

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