The daily pressures of life and added stressors of adulthood are powerful forces. I provide an escape for the viewer and myself using a variety of materials such as beauty magazines, glitter, pipe cleaners, found small toys and nostalgic childhood collections. Innocence is temporary and fleeting, while beauty is subjective and ever changing. I want to take the adult complexities and create something symbolically permanent that captures this easily forgotten innocence while raising questions about society’s beauty standards that are both whimsical and disarming.

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I have my Bachelors in Fine Arts and Masters in Art Education from Florida State University. I believe in following the "Art for life" concept and am excited to inspire anyone/everyone to let art be a part of their everyday lives. By day I'm an Art Educator "Ms. Sanchez" & by night I'm "Sammantha Marie" the Artista.

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