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Artist to open new exhibit at Culver-Stockton November 10
Tuesday, October 28, 2008

CANTON, Mo. – The Mabee Gallery on the campus of Culver-Stockton College will open a new exhibit by Amy Sacksteder, a Michigan artist, on Monday, November 10.

Sacksteder is an assistant professor of art and undergraduate coordinator of the art department at Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, where she received the 2008 Josephine Nevins Keal Fellowship in 2008. She was recently selected as one of the featured artists in New American Paintings, a bimonthly juried exhibition in print. In 2007 she completed an artist residency at the Residential Art Centre of Cantagal, France.

Sacksteder focuses her drawings and paintings on the connection between design and nature. “Perhaps in today’s urban-influenced culture, in light of concerns about the environment and rapidly dwindling resources, people are changing their relationship to nature. More and more I am seeing wall-mounted decals of birds, silhouettes of tree branches on t-shirts, and artwork that seems to gravitate toward very specific animals and other natural imagery,” Sacksteder said. “I am exploring what makes certain of these images attractive to people such that again and again, they are appropriated--taken a very far distance from their original embodiment in the wild and presented as design.”

Sacksteder earned her bachelor’s degree in English, with minors in French and art at the University of Dayton and a master of fine arts degree in painting at Northern Illinois University. She also attended the Chautauqua School of Fine and Performing Arts.

The Culver-Stockton exhibit of her works opens with a reception and gallery talk by the artist at 6:30 p.m. on November 10. The exhibit continues until December 5. The Mabee Art Gallery is open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Gallery is located in the Herrick Foundation Center on campus.