Sandra Babb  
ARTIST                                            

351 Old Three Notch Road

Ringgold, GA 30736

H: (706) 375-2978 C: (423) 227-9464

 Sandra@babb.com        

                       
Sandra Babb has been actively painting plein air for 5 years. She has revolving exhibits in two Blimpies in Chattanooga—St. Elmo and Lee Highway. Other venues include the East Ridge Community Center in Tennessee, the No Fry Zone and the Ringgold Frame Shop in Ringgold, GA. She was represented in the Harris Cultural Arts Show in January and the Colonnade Winter Show. She taught a pastel workshop in January.

In 2007 Sandra attended an oil portrait workshop with Robert Liberace on Longboat Key, FL. She exhibited at Carisma in an exhibit for participants of the Historic Buford Georgia Paint Out. In March she attended a plein air workshop at Callaway Gardens, Pine Mountain, GA with L. Diane Johnson. Sandra presented a one-day drawing class in figure and drapery at the DADA Belly dance workshop at Old Green Eyes with Jillanna of Merrybellies.
March found Sandra painting and exhibiting in Gainesville, GA at the “Paint the Town” paint out sponsored by the Quinlan Arts Center

She showed 20 works at the Hair Designers in Collegedale, TN, 3 works in the Creative Arts League “Brush with History” at the Tunnel Hill Heritage Center, and 2 pieces at the AVA “Up from the Roots” show in the Memorial Hospital in Chattanooga, Tennessee. She participated in the Creative Arts Guild 44th Annual Festival Indoor Patron Show in Dalton, GA.
Sandra attended the pastel workshops of Margaret Dyer of Atlanta and Susan Doubleday of Chattanooga. She sponsored Janet McGrath “Finish a Portrait in One Day” Workshops at Old Green Eyes Gallery in Ringgold, GA. She sold several works in Bill Shore’s “Going, Going, Gone” Sale in July and painted a chair for the Why Know Second Annual “Chair Affair”. She participated in the Second Annual Buford Paint Out and various fall art shows.

She is currently a member of AVA, the Civic Arts League, and the Regional Art Alliance of Chattanooga, TN. She participates in the Plein Air Georgia Network. She is an associate member of the Booth Western Museum in Cartersville, GA and the Hunter Museum of American Art in Chattanooga.

Sandra paints each day she has the opportunity to go out in the lovely North Georgia area where she resides. Sandra is available to do commissions of subjects from beloved relatives to old barns. She works in acrylics, oils, watercolors, and pastels. She is currently teaching private lessons in the newly completed Studio-Bee at her home.

Where to find me in 2008

Catoosa County Colonnade
April 7 – May 5, 2008

MAGI at the Bachman School, Signal Mt. TN
April 10 – May 17,2008

Gifts of the Earth Gallery, Vine Street, Chattanooga, TN
April 10- May 20, 2008

Garden Vignettes, Frazier Ave, Chattanooga, TN
April 10-April 28, 2008   Open House April 12

More Than a Taste Festival, Calhoun, GA
April 26, 2008

Beth Kellerhals Art Center, Ringgold, GA
April 21- May 2, 2008

Creative Arts Guild, Dalton, GA
May 2- June 20, 2008

Unitarian Universalist  Church, Chattanooga, TN
One Woman Show   May 2-July 2, 2008

Tunnel Hill Heritage Center, TH, GA
CAL History Show
June 9 – July 7, 2008

Michael’s Art and Frame, Dalton, GA
Oct 13-November 7, 2008
Two-Woman Show with BJ Wright

I keep an easel, canvases, oil paints and brushes, mosquito spray, and a cooler in the Jeep.  I like the wide-open spaces and my studio is wherever I can find enough room to plant my feet. The resulting paintings give me a sense of place in an otherwise hectic lifestyle.”
                                                                             Sandra Babb