Sandra Jean Ceas | Art as Discourse
Sandra Jean Ceas was born Sandra Jean Raymond in the state of Rhode Island. After experiencing a successful career as a Fashion Designer, Product Developer, Corporate Consultant, and Educator, Ceas eventually turned to Fine Arts. From 2002 to 2012 she added to her AAS Fashion Institute of Technology Fashion Degree, a BFA in Sculpture from Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design, a MFA in New Genres from the San Francisco Art Institute, and a MA in Religious Studies from the University of Denver.
Ceas has a twenty-year exhibition history including international exposure, and decades of teaching and speaking at various public venues including conferences, college campuses, U.S. military exhibitions, and creative and spiritual retreats. Her topics have continually engaged art and spirituality. In the last several years, Ceas has experienced an annual artist-in-residence in Italy, Morocco, New Mexico, New York, Spain, and Mexico, and she often leads collaborative social practice projects with students and colleagues.
In 2023, Ceas retired from teaching at Colorado State University in the MALCM Master’s program for Art Leadership and Cultural Management, and currently teaching studio arts at her home studio. Her art practice engages a socio-political point of view with an interdisciplinary approach expressed through various mediums to include installation, drawing, collage, appropriation, street art public intervention, and observational photography. Ceas travels the globe surveying opportunities to use art as a means for discourse, especially where religious tension resides.
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Art is sensitivity
Art as Redemption and Empathy
Artists are sensitive to the world that surrounds them, both internally and externally. As an artist of faith, my reactions are deeply rooted in redemption of humanity. Sometimes this manifests in works of art that are psychological and other times the art is more universally inquisitive. Many of my pieces embed concept in the process and require examination of the how and why. In any case I make art to provoke extensive thinking and evoke empathetic response that broadens our understanding of one another.
Art broadens us
"Sandy's art fills me with a sense of spiritual vitality and an urge to share it."