Arturo Alonzo Sandoval

Arturo Alonzo Sandoval is a Full Professor at the University of Kentucky Department of Art. Known internationally for his innovative weavings and mixed media art quilts. Sandoval combines pattern, text, and symbolic forms into unique graphic and colorful art expressions. He pursues the cutting edge, transforming recycled industrial high tech pliable materials employing either a floor loom, sewing machine, interlacing or collage processes. His teaching and creative efforts have been awarded two NEA Visual Arts Fellowships, two Kentucky Arts Council Al Smith Visual Arts Fellowships, two Kentucky Arts Council Al Smith Visual Arts Professional grants, the RUDE OSOLNIK Craftsman Award, and the 2003 Governor's Award in the Arts: Artist Award. His fiber art is collected in such major museums as the Museum of Modern Art, NYC, Smithsonian Institute-Renwick Gallery, and the J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY, and numerous corporations, banks, public and private collections. During the past 33 years his fiber art has been published in several books including: Beyond Weaving, Fiber Soft Sculpture, Vietnam: Reflexes and Reflections, Interlacing, Celebrating the Stitch, International CRAFTS, The Art Quilt, The Quilt, Imagery on Fabric, The Surface Designers Art, Arturo Alonzo Sandoval: A Retrospective, many fiber art and craft exhibition catalogs, and journals including American Craft Magazine, Fiberarts Magazine, and Surface Design Journal.