Visual Art

Other recent series explore the healing and expressive potential of mandalas and use gesture to convey states of mind and consciousness.

Sanders’ work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in England, Germany, Scotland, Japan, and throughout the United States. She exhibited over 40 works in a solo show at the African American Museum in Dallas, TX in 2006. In 2019, her Ophelia Rising exhibition took place at both campuses of New England College in New Hampshire. She was an artist-in-residence at Elsewhere Museum in Greensboro, NC in 2021 and her artwork is part of the museum collection. In 2023, her cyanotype photography and a site-specific mural were presented in Lonnie Graham’s curated exhibition at The Museum of No Spectators at Burning Man festival in Nevada, a project by architect John Marx that was featured in the Venice Architecture Biennale. The same year, Sanders created 2 paste-paper murals for the City of Keene that were displayed next to the Colonial Theater in Keene, NH. In 2024, her public art project entitled Here and Now Mandalas, was awarded multiple grants: the New Hampshire State Council for the Arts’ Community Arts Grant, and grants from the Putnam Foundation, The NH Charitable Foundation, and the Kingsbury Foundation. This interdisciplinary outdoor installation and dance project was sponsored by the Friends of Public Art and the City of Keene, NH in February at the amphitheater of Robinhood Park and downtown Keene, NH.

In winter 2025, she will present Blue: Water as Metaphor, forthcoming 2-person exhibition with Sabra Booth at Palmetto Center for the Arts, Northwest Vista College, Alamo Colleges, San Antonio, TX. Sanders’ artwork been collected by former Swedish ambassador, Pierre Schori; former World Heart Association, President Valentine Fuster; musician Rhonda Ross among others.