This is an instant digital download of a mixed media collage titled "Empowering Nude Wall Art, Motivational Print, Body Positive Inspiration, Where I Feel Confident Wall Art Decor, vintage book, vintage photo created from a vintage photo with a background of textured and patterned paper. The original is 3x4". You will receive 2 files, one of the image which can be printed as large as 15x20" and one with a white border and signature which can be printed as large as 24x18".
For Sara's collage work, she uses vintage and antique photos combined with patterned and handmade papers along with words cut from vintage and antique books. She arranges the words individually or in phrases to make 'found poems'. Sometimes the poems are only a phrase, some are several stanzas long.
Sara Minarik Applegate was born and raised in Reston, Virginia, and graduated from South Lakes High School, completing her degree in only three years. She graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art, the oldest art school in the country, with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in printmaking in 1997. She also spent one year at the California College of Arts and Crafts in an exchange program where, besides printmaking courses, she was able to study artist’s bookmaking, papermaking and holography.
Her first piece of artwork to sell went to 2 museums in China in 1995. Her work has been collected by Actress Rosie O’Donnell, Singer Madonna and Author Anne Rice of Interview with a Vampire.
Sara is a Master Certified Picture Framer, one of 63 in the world, and has been framing for twenty years. She has won first place awards regionally, nationally and internationally for her work. Her Mickey Mouse Mat won a national competition in 2002 for mat design and her Circus Tent frame design won the Professional Picture Framers Association’s International framing competition in January of 2013. She specializes in unique mat designs and unusual presentations of artwork.
