About Author: Betty Spackman

Betty Spackman, MFA, is a multi media installation artist and painter whose work often centers on cultural objects and the stories connected to them. She is the author of "A Profound Weakness: Christians and Kitsch" (Piquant, 2005). She is currently touring a 3000 sq. ft. installation, “FOUND WANTING, a Multimedia Installation Regarding Grief and Gratitude.” This project is built around a large collection of animal bones and addresses among other things issues of sustainability and animal/human relations.

Posts by Betty Spackman

  • Good art opens the mind and emotions. It stretches one’s perspective, questions one’s beliefs, agitates apathy, and invites one to explore the mysterious. It can be, I believe, a manifestation of the sacred. Religious kitsch, on the other hand, with...

    Wounded for Our Visual Transgressions…

    Good art opens the mind and emotions. It stretches one’s perspective, questions one’s beliefs, agitates apathy, and invites one to explore the mysterious. It can be, I believe, a manifestation of the sacred. Religious kitsch, on the other hand, with...

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