To purchase or commission a work, book an exhibit in your business or gallery, use my images in your publication, or provide an emerging artist with a generous stipend as a wealthy patron, please contact me at: 

Katelyn@KatelynSack.com

or 434-409-9670                  

You can also read more about my background and goals:

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. 

Oils on canvas are my primary artworks.  In addition to the virtual gallery found on this website, I have been showcasing art and writing about the creative life on my art blog, Visiopoetics, since November 2006.  Other current projects include photography, mixed-media drawings, music, poetry, and a fiction book I hope to have written by next fall. 

I grew up just south of Birmingham, Alabama, receiving extensive training in dance and music before dropping my artistic studies to focus on getting through high school several years early.  In 2005, I graduated from the University of Virginia with a B.A. with High Distinction in Political Theory, Subaltern Studies, and Translation.  After declining an offer from Duke Law School, I opened my own small business as an artist, because I am not here to take over your world.  I am here to change how you see it.  I independently teach children's piano and art, tutor in assorted subjects, and delight in my work as a nanny; I begin a PhD program as a President's Fellow in Politics at U.Va. this fall. 

My artwork is currently on display at: At Last... A Hair Color Studio (Vinegar Hill), The Inn Store at Boar's Head Inn, Bigg Dawg Tattoo (Preston Avenue), 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: McGuffey Art Center (as part of Art in Place's annual C2d competition and group show), Thomas Jefferson Memorial Church (Rugby), Wachovia Bank (Ivy Road), Panera Bread, The Paramount Theater, HotCakes, Vanity Salon, Cassis, Café Cubano, Play On Theater, Mudhouse, Just Java (Lake Monticello), Java Java – Ivy, Java Java – downtown, the Theater at IX, Barnes & Noble, and Enoteca.

You can find some of my recent publications (in no particular order) here:

"India Declares War on U.S.," July 22, 2008, Demockeracy. 

"Biofuel Industry Responsible for Skyrocketing Food Prices," July 15, 2008, Demockeracy. 

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

"Bush Leaves Office with a Bang," "Hillary Is Right (Handed)," "Lame-Duck Syndrome A Growing National Problem," "U.S. Halts Creation of New Solar Power Plants," and featured artwork; July 8, 2008, Demockeracy. 

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

"Kandahar Prison Break Threatens Mideast Peace" and "Life found on Mars, but it's not at all what anyone expected"; June 24, 2008, Demockeracy. 

"Bush Administration Applauds Scientific Community" and featured artwork; June 17, 2008, Demockeracy. 

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

"Iran Bombs Self" and featured artwork; June 10, 2008, Demockeracy. 

"Obama Bobama – First One Hundred Days Panorama," "Millions of Chinese Children Displaced in Massive Earthquake Will Work for Food," and featured artwork; June 3, 2008, Demockeracy. 

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

"Ted Kennedy Hospitalized, Political World Reacts," May 27, 2008, Demockeracy. 

"Global Warming Cancelled," May 13, 2008, Demockeracy. 

"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 Dinosaur in My Living Room Is Fred: Seven Poems," Apr. 11, 2008, Yankee Pot Roast. 

"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. 

"Shepherds-Who-Want-You-to-Be-Healthy Pie," "Herbal Supplements," and "Hot Chai Malk," Reviews of New Food, McSweeney's Internet Tendency.

"Rod Stewart Songs Titles, Ordered to Tell the Story of His Public Life," Listicles, Yankee Pot Roast.

"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:

"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.