To purchase or commission a work, book an exhibit in your business or gallery, or use my images in your publication, please contact me at: 

Katelyn@KatelynSack.com

or 434-409-9670                  

I'm a third-year PhD student in Politics at the University of Virginia, where my primary research interests as a President's Fellow are forensics and ethics. I'm also an independent artist, writer, film-maker, and President of the Charlottesville Chapter of the Lupus Foundation of Virginia. 

Oils on canvas are my primary artworks.  In addition to the virtual gallery found on this website (which is perpetually out of date), I've blogged art and the creative life at Visiopoetics since November 2006.  Other current projects include photography, mixed-media drawings, music, poetry, and fiction. I'm also making a documentary on polygraphs. 

My focus as an artist is to celebrate the beauty and truth all around me, to glory in the diversity of existence and appreciate the order within chaos.  Art is nothing if not a way to offer hope and empowerment.  It is philosophy at its most respectful, activism at its most responsible, and the human condition at its best. 

My artwork is currently on display at:  Millmont Grille, the Geographical Information Systems Lab and Weather Room in the Climatology Office at the University of Virginia, and the Ivy Store (art cards only).

Previous central Virginia art exhibit venues include: Thornton Hall at the University of Virginia, C'ville Coffee, H&E - The Gallery at Fifth and Water, McGuffey Art Center (as part of Art in Place's annual C2d competition and group show, Judges' Choice), The Inn Store at Boar's Head Inn, Barnes & Noble (Barracks), Enoteca, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Church (Rugby), Wachovia Bank (Ivy Road), Panera Bread, The Paramount Theater, HotCakes, Vanity Salon, Cassis, Café Cubano, Play On Theater, Mudhouse, Bigg Dawg Tattoo (Preston Avenue), Just Java (Lake Monticello), At Last... A Hair Color Studio (Vinegar Hill), the Theater at IX, Java Java – Ivy, and Java Java – downtown.

You can find some of my recent publications here:

"The Silent Epidemic," Spoofs & Satire, June 2, 2010, The Morning News. 

"What Do Irises Want?," reader response, Alan Brownjohn's April 2010 Poetry Workshop, May 24, 2010, UK Guardian.

"A Preliminary Exploration of Corruption and U.S. Intercountry Adoption, 1996-2008," MA thesis in haiku form; March 26, 2010, Dissertation Haiku. 

"Health Care Reform Bill Has a Life of Its Own," March 3, 2010, Open Salon. 

"Loophole 'solution' shifts burden," letter to the editor; October 27, 2009, Daily Progress. 

"Driving Into Sunset," October 7, 2009, The Christian Science Monitor. 

"Show Me the Data (Why Tout New Drugs Before Research is Done?)," letter to the editor, August 16, 2009, Richmond Times-Dispatch. 

"The Fictional Herbalist: Illegal and Quasi-Illegal Herbal Wisdom, As Passed on Through Underground Fiction in the Reagan – Bush Years," July 17, 2009, Monkeybicycle. 

"Mean People Never Die," June 11, 2009, Six Sentences. 

"World Travel," June 5, 2009, The Science Creative Quarterly. 

"Afternoon," cover art, and other featured artwork, Vol. 2, No. 2, Spring 2009, Amalgam: The Virginia Interdisciplinary Graduate Review. 

"Suburban Summer," April 11, 2009, Feathertale. 

"Of Doctors and Risks," letter to the editor, March 24, 2009, The New York Times. 

"The Box under the Bed," cover art, Vol. 21, No. 1, Spring 2009, Thema: many plots, one premise. 

Semi-regular (while this lovely satirical news site lasted): Demockeracy.

Forthcoming: The South Carolina Review, The Journal of Recreational Mathematics, Word Riot, the New York Quarterly, the Georgetown Review, etc. 

"You Make Me Sick: Does Maladaptive Psychology Cause Autoimmunity?" February 24, 2009, The Science Creative Quarterly. 

"Warm Tidings," (song and poem); December 19, 2008, The Science Creative Quarterly. 

"Calculations," Vol. 34, No. 4, 2008, Journal of Recreational Mathematics. 

"A Witness is Hard to Find,""Creation Myths," "Date," and "Garden Path"; Fall 2008, The Binnacle.

Various Reviews of New Food, McSweeney's Internet Tendency.

Assorted light verse, Yankee Pot Roast. 

"Landscaping," first runner-up in the Shya Scanlon Contest; Issue 7/October 2008, Opium Magazine. 

"The Wasteful American, Installment Four: On the Sunny Side of Efficiency," October 8, 2008, The Science Creative Quarterly. 

"The Wasteful American, Installment Three: Throwing Money Away (A Modest Proposal)," September 22, 2008, The Science Creative Quarterly. 

"Atmospheric Studies," September 4, 2008, The Science Creative Quarterly. 

"Stretch marks," July 31, 2008, Thieves Jargon. 

"Nurse Rear I'm," June/July 2008, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review. 

"Constant," July 2, 2008, The Science Creative Quarterly. 

"Equal swimming access needed," letter to the editor; June 16, 2008, Daily Progress. 

"Creation Myths," "Vision," and featured artwork; June 1, 2008, Divine Revolution Magazine. 

"Strange Things Afoot," May 13, 2008, Null Hypothesis. 

"Fish oil evidence is out there," letter to the editor, May 12, 2008, Los Angeles Times. 

"Cooking with Archimedes," May 7, 2008, The Science Creative Quarterly. 

"The Wasteful American, Installment Two: Waste Stinks," May 7, 2008, Null Hypothesis. 

"Innumeracy," Apr. 21, 2008, The Science Creative Quarterly. 

"The Wasteful American, Installment One: Melting the Polar Ice Caps with Rachel Ray," Apr. 7, 2008, Null Hypothesis. 

"Time to Study Flowers," Feb. 4, 2008, The Science Creative Quarterly. 

"A Face That Moves Too Fast to Read," 500-Word Memoirs, Opium Magazine.

"Range," reader response, Eleanor Rees's November 2007 Poetry Workshop, Nov. 27, 2007, UK Guardian.

"Sack's Baby-Pants Index," included in "A Collection of Worthy Scientific Eponyms," The Science Creative Quarterly.

"Baby, Be A Brain Surgeon!" Sept. 11, 2007, The Science Creative Quarterly. 

You can find some recent press coverage of my work here:

"Featured Community Interview," by Brad Savage, Apr. 6, 2010, 106.1 The Corner. 

"Art Exhibit Space Opens in Engineering School's Thornton Hall," Nov. 17, 2009, U.Va. Today. 

"Featured Community Interview," by Brad Savage, Feb. 17, 2009, 106.1 The Corner. 

"Art Notes," by The Daily Progress Staff, Dec. 26, 2008, The Daily Progress. 

"The Presidency Illustrated," by Hector Acuna, Dec. 8, 2008, Tucson Weekly. 

"Artist of the Week," by Jason Behrends, July 16, 2008, What to Wear During an Orange Alert?. 

"Around the World With Friends," by Yoshitaka Yokozawa with Ecology Earth Art 21, Feb. 27, 2008, Japanese Design Net. 

"Surrounded by Art," by Brendan Fitzgerald, Feb. 19, 2008, C-VILLE Weekly.