About the Artist:

Sandy Hall 

For over 25 years Greenfield artist and public school teacher Sandy Hall has encouraged thousands students in her classrooms and after-school art clubs.  

As a preschooler Sandy began to explore creativity in the home.  Her parents installed an old school blackboard, hung low on the wall, and encouraged their children to express themselves daily.  Growing up as a rural youth she found 4-H provided further opportunities for artistic expression.   

After graduating from Purdue University with a major in art, Sandy began her teaching career in the Greenfield-Central School System.  Under her direction, after-school art clubs have created public art murals for the Hancock County Humane Society and Greenfield Municipal Animal Shelter. The latest student project was a large format, stained glass mosaic featuring animal wildlife, installed in a pastoral, meditation area of the Nameless Creek Youth Camp. 

Sandy has received Teacher Creativity Grants from the Lilly Endowment providing for travel to Japan and China, where she studied the art of Oriental wood block printmaking and the Meixia inlaid glass technique.

Sandy continues to refresh her artistic interests exploring new and novel approaches.  One of her greatest pleasures is encouraging students with little or no art experience, helping them “discover the artist within”.  Each summer she trains aspiring student artists as they create stage sets for the Hancock County Children’s Theater. 

She is a musician, plays the acoustic guitar and enjoys singing with the Greenfield Christian Church choir.  Sandy is a past board member of Kakuda & Greenfield Sister City, Inc. and Hancock Arts and Cultural Council. She is also a member of the CrazyLake Plein Aire painters, Indiana State Teachers Association and Art Educators Association of Indiana. 

Sandy is pleased to support Bob and Bev Hunt as they, and others, pursue revitalization of the Masonic Building and promotion of the arts in downtown Greenfield.  She especially appreciates the exciting concepts continuing to evolve from the CrazyLake Art House, H.J. Ricks Centre for the Arts, and the Hancock County Visitors Bureau stirring community interest in the arts.  

Sandy has taken up “artistic residence” in Studio 12A at 2 West Main St. and extends an open invitation to visit her studio on the second floor, just to the right of the elevator. 

“To the wise, life is a festival”, adapted from Ralph Waldo Emerson. 

Contact:sandyhall68@sbcglobal.net

See samples of her work here!