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Independent artist Mary Sprague stopped by to speak with Nancy about her long career both as a creator of art and as a teacher.

Mary Sprague,\\xa0longtime Professor Emeritus of Art and Art History at Meramec Community College in St. Louis, draws, paints, and most recently thinks with clay. After completing her Bachelor and Master of Arts at Stanford University in California, she moved with her husband and four children to the Midwest and has been immersed in the St. Louis art community for the past forty-five years. Her persona has been described as, \\u201ca lively and openhanded mix of infectious friendliness\\u201d and \\u201ca woman who lives her life head on with gusto and good humor\\u201d (James Yood,\\xa0on Mary Sprague).

With this in mind, Sprague\\u2019s expansive repertoire of style and content has included notable studies of mysterious domestic interiors, vibrant equestrians, and currently chickens with a certain extra amount of cluck. \\u201cSprague\\u2019s big drawings, some are more than six feet tall, do what a lot of largescale drawings from nature fail to do \\u2013 they preserve the spontaneity of small life sketches while offering up magnified views of beautiful natural forms\\u201d (Margaret Hawkins,\\xa0Chicago Sun Times). Trained in an era of abstract expressionism, Sprague has been able to combine color and form from multiple eras to suit her own tastes and unique almost caricatures of domestic American scenery.

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A few of Mary\'s works below:

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