Biography

Sandy, an adjunct lecturer in the Department of Teaching + Learning in Art + Design, is a RISD alumna whose extensive high school teaching and continuing education administrative experience has been of enormous benefit to the Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) students she has taught over the years. 

For Sandy, helping young artists and designers become K-12 visual arts educators is both exciting and life changing. Her entire professional career has revolved around art and sharing it with others. From teaching art at St. Georges School in Middletown, Rhode Island, to Ringling School of Art in Sarasota, Florida, where she was director of Continuing and Professional Education, Sandy has devoted her life to sharing the magic of art with all ages. 

Sandy and her husband William Rommel own Arnold Art Gallery and Arnold Art Centre on Aquidneck Island and are involved in the Newport Gallery Association's efforts to further art in the area. Sandy’s studio practice reflects a respect for quilting and antique prints within a more contemporary context. The combination of abstract printmaking with the grid format of traditional quilts and their essence of the touch of the quilter, the conversations of women gathered around a quilt, the many small stitches which speak volumes allow the combination of art forms to meld. 

Sandy is intrigued with the combination of painterly craft, quilting, and printmaking.

Sandra M. MacDonald

Lecturer
smacdona@risd.edu

• BA, UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA
• MAE, Rhode Island School of Design

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