Art and its history has been a part of Sande's life since she can remember growing up in northern California. Painting and drawing, sewing and design were things she always did in school designing school programs and posters through elementary and high school. After graduating from high school in Burlingame, she went to San Francisco State University majoring in Art and History. She graduated with a BA in Art, Painting and Drawing. Wesley Chamberlin, Alexander Napote and Bob …
Art and its history has been a part of Sande's life since she can remember growing up in northern California. Painting and drawing, sewing and design were things she always did in school designing school programs and posters through elementary and high school. After graduating from high school in Burlingame, she went to San Francisco State University majoring in Art and History. She graduated with a BA in Art, Painting and Drawing. Wesley Chamberlin, Alexander Napote and Bob Arneson were some of her professors. She had art summer art classes at the Art Institute of San Francisco and the University of Guadalajara, Mexico. She relocated to Los Angeles and studied briefly at the Otis Art Institute and Laguna Beach School of Art, especially studying life drawing and painting. Continuing to paint in oil and watercolors, she also began experimenting with paint and dyes on silk, photography and printmaking for years; while she worked in the medical profession. She returned to graduate school and completed a MA in Art at CSU Sacramento. She has since taught art and art history for several years at community colleges in Sacramento and Placer county before she moved to Santa Fe in 2006. Since the years from San Francisco State University, she has participated in many shows, completed commissions and juried several shows involving children; as well as teaching in after school at risk programs, community art programs and serving on the Arts Commission in Roseville, California.
