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| About: Sandi Wheaton has been exhibiting her work for several years in the US and Canada, and is the recipient of numerous awards and arts grants. She spent the past ten years working as a video producer for General Motors in Detroit by day, and pursuing her photography passion by night. When she was recently downsized by GM, it was a blessing in disguise. Sandi seized the opportunitiy to realize one of her long-dreamed-of projects: documenting the entire 2400+ miles of Route 66. She spent two months living in a small trailer and driving across America, photographing the historic highway using now-obsolete black and white infrared film, a dashboard-mounted time-lapse camera, and digital stills. Her journey and her “pictureRoute66” online travel blog received many followers and much attention, with sponsorship and news stories on CBC-TV, KFOR-TV, KVII-TV, Phoenix News 12, and interviews in The Oklahoman, Amarillo Globe-News, the Windsor Star and the Moncton Times and Transcript. Sandi has also spent several years documenting the ecologically-troubled Salton Sea in desert California. That work has won many accolades, and was recently featured in a solo exhibition at Canada's Art Gallery of Windsor entitled "Promised Water / Promised Land - neglected and protected desert landscapes". The work was subsequently reviewed and featured on the cover of Mass Art Guide (Toronto). Currently, she is working with the Injured Workers Coalition, Occupational Health Clinics for Ontario Workers, and the Workers Health and Safety Centre on an Ontario Arts Council-funded research and development project called "Legacy Costs: Burden or Benefit?". The project seeks to examine the real “Legacy Costs” that burden southwestern Ontario communities, left behind by irresponsible workplaces allowed to protect unfettered profits. Sandi also teaches photography for the city of Windsor, and is a freelance tour director. She spent last summer leading travel tours throughout Canada's Maritime Provinces for Caravan Tours, and is planning a photographer's trip to Holland with fellow tour director Mettina van der Veen from Go Atlanta and Beyond. Where's her stuff? Prints and cards can be ordered online (email or call), and are currently available for purchase at the following locations: - Art Gallery of Windsor (Windsor, ON) Sandi's work is also in the Sales and Rentals collection at the Art Gallery of Windsor, and is part of the Hi-Desert Medical Center's permanent art collection. Although most of her colour work is now created digitally, she still has a darkroom and processes and prints black and white silver gelatin prints by hand. |