Sandra Bowden is an artist

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 and painter

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 from New York

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 and is a past president (1993–2007) of "Christians in the Visual Arts".

A native of New England, Bowden holds a degree from the State University of New York

State University of New York

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. Bowden is the recipient of numerous awards for her contemporary religious imagery. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Vatican Museum of Contemporary Religious Art in Rome

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 and in the Haifa Museum of Art

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 in Israel

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. Corporate collections include Holiday Inn

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s of America and the General Electric Corporation.

Books

• The Art of Sandra Bowden by James Romaine (Square Halo Books, 2005) ISBN 978-0965879897
• Editor of Faith and Vision: Twenty-Five Years of Christians in the Visual Arts (Square Halo Books, 2005) ISBN 978-0965879880
• Contributor to It Was Good: Making Art to the Glory of God edited by Ned Bustard (Square Halo Books, 2007) ISBN 978-0978509712