College of Arts and Architecture
School of Visual Arts
PRINTMAKING
JEAN SANDERS
Associate Professor of Art
M.F.A. 1990 (printmaking) - University of Wisconsin-Madison
B.F.A. 1987 (printmaking) - Southern Illinois University
Jean Sanders is an Associate Professor in the School of Visual Arts at
the Pennsylvania State University. Her work is concerned with Eastern
philosophy and the craft of printmaking. Being a visual artist, the sensual
world is of great interest and importance to her. It is also a great affliction
for her as her studies in Eastern philosophy lead her to desire the state
of pratyahara – a desireless state of mind. Detachment from desire
is the objective and the artwork that she produces is evidence of this
internal struggle. Printmaking is an artform that is labor intensive,
process oriented and one in which she can lose herself in so that she
might reach a meditative state of mind.
She is highly active in exhibiting her work nationally and internationally
in juried exhibitions. Pressed and Pulled X, Georgia College & State
University’s Tenth National Printmaking Exhibition, the Fifteenth
Parkside National Small Print Exhibition, The Los Angeles Printmaking
Society's 13th National Exhibition and the 17th International Independent
Exhibition of Prints in Kanagawa, Yokohama, Japan are to name a few of
these exhibition venues.
GALLERY OF ARTWORK
