Sandra Gould Ford

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Sandra Gould Ford creates and presents literary, photographic, mixed media and textile art for healing and high achievement. She also teaches and exhibits in schools and organizations nationwide.

To celebrate artists and their potential, she founded Shooting Star Productions, Inc., a non-profit cultural organization that produced two major writers conferences and published Shooting Star Review, an international literary quarterly.

She has received Fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and the Dow Creativity Center. She has completed residencies at Yaddo, Ucross, Ragdale, Djerassi, Millay, Hedgebrook and Dorland Mountain Arts Colony. The Dorland residency was funded by the Lannan Foundation. In addition, her photography and quilts are in corporate, institutional, private and museum collections.

Sandra Gould Ford has completed several teaching-exhibition residencies through the Mid Atlantic Arts Council. From kindergarten through post-graduate levels, she teaches origami, book binding, creative writing and memoir, visual journaling and textile arts, to enhance creative problem-solving, stress reduction and personal insight.

Upon completion of her fifth Creative Writing residency at the Allegheny County Jail, Sandra Gould Ford looks forward to developing and promoting a series of novels, inspirational books, her steel mill photo memoir and her visual art.

Selected Works

Fiction
Faraday's Popcorn Factory
"A hopeful tale of love’s power to heal, to create, and to transform.”
-–Mosaic Magazine
Anthology
Dawn
Because 90% of inmates return to society, Arts in Corrections makes sense because, "... participants in AIC programs had 75% fewer disciplinary actions and a 27% lower recidivism rate than the general ... . This translates into reduced incarceration costs to the public not to mention improved human lives."
-- William James Association
Phoenix Rising
When a guy comes up to me and says, "Why should I be paying for music lessons for some convict when I can't afford it for my own kids," I say, it just makes the world a little safer for your kids. Yes, your kids should have art lessons. Everyone should have art lessons. But these programs pay for themselves and they represent a significant benefit to the community at large. These people come back out. Ninety-five percent of the people who go into prison come back out. And how do you want them to come back out? Do you want them to be bitter and angry and hostile? Or do you want something in place that maintains their humanity and keeps the human side alive? "Maintaining Humanity," an interview with Grady Hillman

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