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= Sandra Meigs =

Biography
Sandra Meigs was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1953. She was a ceramics major at the Rhode Island School of Design from 1971 to 1973. She obtained her Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1975. She then completed her Masters of Arts in Philosophy at Dalhousie University in 1980. She began her career as a painter in Toronto, and then moved to Victoria, British Columbia in 1993 where she was a Professor of Visual Arts at the University of Victoria. She retired in July 2017 after 24 years with their Visual Arts Department. She taught painting 101, as well as theory to all levels of students. In the middle of her professional career, she lost her husband to Cancer in January 2011.

Meigs’ paintings have been widely exhibited in Canada and internationally. She is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.