Artist Statement
ARTIST STATEMENT
Professor Emeritus, Art Department, California State University in Sacramento, Maria Winkler has an MFA in painting and drawing, and a PhD in art education. A practicing and exhibiting artist, her paintings are included in the permanent collections of the Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho; California League of Women Artists, Sacramento, CA; Kaiser Permanente’s Public Art Collection, the University of California Medical Center’s Public Art Collection, and a number of corporate art collections. Her work also appears in published form as posters, art cards, teaching aids, and books. Her biography appears in World’s Who’s Who of Women in Education and also in Who’s Who in American Art. She is also a book artist, whose handmade artist books have been extensively shown and published in catalogs and books.
Maria works in several concurrent series: Waterscapes and Landscapes; Vintage Toys and Games; Feminist Statements; Glass Arrangements; and Artist's Books.
To view an interview with Maria Winkler discussing her Vintage Toys and Games Series: https://www.youtube.com/embed/6_erMQPq_80
Professor Emeritus, Art Department, California State University in Sacramento, Maria Winkler has an MFA in painting and drawing, and a PhD in art education. A practicing and exhibiting artist, her paintings are included in the permanent collections of the Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho; California League of Women Artists, Sacramento, CA; Kaiser Permanente’s Public Art Collection, the University of California Medical Center’s Public Art Collection, and a number of corporate art collections. Her work also appears in published form as posters, art cards, teaching aids, and books. Her biography appears in World’s Who’s Who of Women in Education and also in Who’s Who in American Art. She is also a book artist, whose handmade artist books have been extensively shown and published in catalogs and books.
Maria works in several concurrent series: Waterscapes and Landscapes; Vintage Toys and Games; Feminist Statements; Glass Arrangements; and Artist's Books.
To view an interview with Maria Winkler discussing her Vintage Toys and Games Series: https://www.youtube.com/embed/6_erMQPq_80