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Sara Velas is artist, graphic designer, gardener, curator and native Los Angeleno. Born in Panorama City, Velas studied the panoramic painting style while a student at Washington University School of Art in Saint Louis, Missouri, where she received her BFA in Painting.Velas’ interest in panoramas goes back to her days as an art student. She was researching the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair and became aware of the panorama paintings that entertained people there. In 2000, she founded the Velaslavasay Panorama in Los Angeles, CA, the only 360-degree panorama created since the 19th century in the United States. Velas also served as the president of the International Panorama Council from 2014 to 2017, which meets annually to discuss the panoramic medium both historically and contemporarily.

When interviewed in 2016 for the journal Museum Futures, Velas noted that: “A few times, I suppose I’ve not been the ideal interviewee because folks would ask me ‘Now that you’ve done this, what would you like to have happen?’ Getting at a higher pinpointed truth or ‘secret meaning.’ My genuine answer is that I want to keep working on it, tending to it and aligning its growth- similar to a garden (and also literally a garden).”