Sarah Smelser, Secret Desire (Tums), 2022

Sarah Smelser received her BA from the University of California at Santa Cruz and her MA and MFA from Iowa. She has been an artist in residence at Vermont Studio Center, Franz Masereel Center, Artica Bilbao, Kala Art Institute, Jentel Artist Residency, Skopelos Foundation for the Arts, Anchor Graphics, Ballinglen Arts Foundation, and Tamarind Institute. Her work is in such collections as Readers’ Digest Association, New York Public Library, Library of Congress, Hallmark Corporate Collection, and Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts.

Smelser is a Professor, the Associate Director of the School of Art at Illinois State University, and a cofounder of Manneken Press with her husband, Master Printer Jonathan Higgins. Manneken Press is a fine art print publishing venture currently thriving in Bloomington, IL, publishing the work of artists from around the United States and Colombia.

@sarahsmelser @mannekenpress