"Wedding Belle"

BY SANDRA WASKO-FLOOD    

Biography:

Sandra Wasko-Flood (American, b. 1943)

Artist, Poet, Teacher, and Founder-President of Living Labyrinths for Peace, Inc. (2005), Sandra Wasko-Flood has a permanent residence in the mountainous pine forest of Angel Fire, New Mexico near Taos. She received a BA in English from UCLA (1965) and a Secondary Teaching Credential from California State College in Los Angeles (1966). 

A printmaking artist, with works in many public and private collections, she chose luminaries with which to study at the University of California, Los Angeles (1966); in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, (1970-73); the University of Wisconsin, Madison, (1977-78); and at the University of NM, Taos (2009-20). Keith Howard introduced her to new safe etching methods which she has been using in her art work and teaching ever since.

A visionary leader, she founded the Washington DC Women’s Arts Center (1978), the Washington Printmakers Gallery (1986), and the Art Spirit Group, which relates art to spirituality (1985). An experience in the Great Kiva of Chaco Canyon, NM (1991) led her to construct “Dance of the Labyrinth,” composed of computer programmed light box images on which to walk (1994). 

 Walking this technology labyrinth, new to the history of art, led her to do following: Help found the international Labyrinth Society (TLS) (1998); Direct its first project: a labyrinth walking demonstration for inner peace on the east lawn of the U.S. Capitol (2000).

SELECTED MUSEUM AND INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITS

Harwood Museum, Taos, NM, children’s labyrinth exhibit 2010 Millicent Rogers Museum, Taos, NM 2010 Creative Alliance, Baltimore, MD: Brazilian Carnival Celebration 2008 Charles Sumner School Museum, Washington DC 2000 Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, St. Joseph, Missouri 2000 Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC: “Fast Forward” 1999 Riva Sinistra Arte Gallery, Florence, Italy 1997 The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC 1996 The U.N. Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, China 1995

Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, VA: VA Commission Winner 1995

Vartai Gallery, Vartai, Lithuania 1994 Book Chamber International, Moscow, USSR: “American Graphics” 1990 Phillips Collection, Washington DC 1988 Modern Art Museum, Buenos Aires, Argentina 1988 Hudson River Museum, New York City, “Printed Image” 1987 Danforth Museum, Farmington, Massachusetts: “North American Prints” 1986 Athenaeum, Virginia Museum Affiliate, Alexandria, VA 1981 Modern Art Museum, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: “Summer Show” 1972

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

College of Notre Dance, Worchester, Massachusetts

Natasha and Tania Kolodzei, Collection of Contemporary Art, USSR Cultural Foundation, USSR

Pushkin Museum, Moscow, USSR

Modern Art Museum, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Library of Congress, Washington DC

National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC Georgetown University, Washington DC

St. Mary’s College, Washington DC

College of Notre Dame, Baltimore, MD.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois 2009 Sub-basement Artists’ Studios, Baltimore, MD 2008-09 NOMA open Studios, 57 N St. NW, Washington DC 1998-2006 Gallery 10, Washington DC 1994-1996 Montpelier Cultural Art Center, Laurel, MD 1992 Montana Gallery, Alexandria, VA 1991

Saint Peter’s Church, NYC 1989 Stuart Mott House, Washington DC 1983 Slavin Gallery, Washington DC 1982

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

“College of Notre Dame, Worchester, Massachusettes

Natasha and Tania Kolodzei, Collection of Contemporary Art, USSR Cultural Foundation, USSR

Pushkin Museum, Moscow, USSR

Modern Art Museum, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Library of Congress, Washington DC

National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC Georgetown University, Washington D.C

St. Mary’s College Washington D.C

College of Notre Dame Baltimore, MD

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Red Rock News, Sedona, AZ. LL4P Celebration and Fundraiser, Unity Church 2018 Taos News: Tempo: “Celebration for Life” Suicide Victims, Kit Carson Park 2017 Taos News: Tempo: “Rise of the Machines” International Symposium on

electronic art, Dory Hulbert 2012 Sangre do Christo Chronicle: “Living Labyrinths for Peace” S. Wasko-Flood 2012 Sangre de Christo Chronicle: “Labyrinths come alive for Angel Fire Enthusiast”

Taos News: “Centering in the Maze: AsariA and Sandra Wasko-Flood present

‘Labyrinths for Peace Exhibition’ 2011 Taos Tempo: “One Step at a Time: Labyrinth gathering explores the mysteries of ancient symbols for a modern world.”