She had done other forms of art. But when Katie Jo Suddaby found sand painting, she came home. Though mostly self-taught, she has learned informally from Tibetan Buddhist monks in the US and in Nepal. She follows the ancient technique of laying thousands of grains of colorful sand to form a picture, then brushes the image away to teach herself, and her audiences, the value of letting go. As a Christian pastor in a liberal denomination, she brings her faith, her feminism, and her thirst for justice into her art. Her mandalas are a meeting of two hemispheres...more
