May 2024 Featured Artist

Sandra Heinzmann

Art By the Sea Gallery is delighted to announce that Sandra Heinzmann will be the Featured Artist for May, 2024

About the Artist

Sandra has an M.F.A. in Acting from the University

of California, Davis, and has been a Professor of

Theatre for over 30 years. She has acted and

directed on both coasts and internationally. Her

emphasis has always been with experimental, new

works, Shakespeare, and multi-media performance..

In 2010, a friend asked asked her to join a pottery

class. Since then, the friend disappeared but

Sandra remained in the studio fascinated by

everything clay.

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She has been working with throwing on the wheel,

hand building, nerikomi (colored clay), sculpture,

and experimenting with various glazes and

underglazes. Her work is colorful, fanciful, and

sometimes absurod.

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In 2021, trying to elude a plague, fires, tornados,

and hurricanes, she landed in Bandon with her

husband, Peter, to find her final destination. Sandra

is delighted to be a part of Bandon's Art by the Sea

Gallery.

and looks forward to evolving in her new

life, and with her new Tribe.


Below is a selection of Sandra Heinzmann’s work that will be on display