Cover Artist Maria Winkler
Inside Pocket November 2022
Maria Winkler is a local artist and professor emeritus at Sac State. She works in a variety of media and subject matter.
Maria Winkler is a local artist and professor emeritus at Sac State. She works in a variety of media and subject matter.
Teresa Steinbach-Garcia is a local artist working in pastel and watercolor using the bounty of this valley to create works of art.
Glenna Kessler has been exhibiting art professionally since 1980. During the height of the pandemic, she found it soothing to paint combinations of portraits and flowers.
Heather Hogan’s current series is on women’s struggles to have it all and hold it all together—a balance between caring for loved ones and pursuing careers and passions.
“This painting is a sleep scape depicting a girl in the moment just before she must wake. Some elements are literal like the twisted sheets, the dog curled at the girl’s side, while others like the horses and moths are part of the dream. The phone with the alarm going off signifies that the child must awaken and is a symbol of technology interrupting the sleep schedule of a tween. The composition is meant to read as a spiral or a whirlpool, which mimics sleep patterns.”