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Sandy Skoglund will be the Honored Educator.

Art and Democracy: Familiarity Breeds Contempt

In terms of reality, we are always pushing back the chaos of nature, which conspires to undo the obsessive constructions we weave around us. Our artifice becomes natural, and the boundaries between science and nature blurred beyond measure. This queasy truth is our fluctuating universe, in which teaching and making art are a serious and welcome challenge, where cynicism is the enemy and honesty is the goal.

Raining Popcorn, © 2001 Sandy Skoglund

Sandy Skoglund was born in Quincy, Massachusetts in 1946.  Skoglund studied studio art and art history at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts from 1964-68. She went on to graduate school at the University of Iowa in 1969 where she studied filmmaking, intaglio printmaking, and multimedia art, receiving her M.A. in 1971 and her M.F.A. in painting in 1972.  

Skoglund moved to New York in June of 1972, where she started working as a conceptual artist, dealing with repetitive, process-oriented art production through the techniques of mark-making and photocopying. In the late seventies Skoglund’s desire to document conceptual ideas led her to teach herself photography. This developing interest in photographic technique became fused with her interest in popular culture and commercial picture making strategies, resulting in the work she is known for today.

Skoglund has been teaching photography and other art forms at Rutgers University-Newark since 1976.