About:

Sandi Wheaton has been exhibiting her work for several years in the US and Canada, and is the recipient of numerous awards and arts grants. She spent the past ten years working as a video producer for General Motors in Detroit by day, and pursuing her photography passion by night. When she was recently downsized by GM, it was a blessing in disguise. Sandi seized the opportunitiy to realize one of her long-dreamed-of projects: documenting the entire 2400+ miles of Route 66. She spent two months living in a small trailer and driving across America, photographing the historic highway using now-obsolete black and white infrared film, a dashboard-mounted time-lapse camera, and digital stills. Her journey and her “pictureRoute66” online travel blog received many followers and much attention, with sponsorship and news stories on CBC-TV, KFOR-TV, KVII-TV, Phoenix News 12, and interviews in The Oklahoman, Amarillo Globe-News, the Windsor Star and the Moncton Times and Transcript.

Sandi has also spent several years documenting the ecologically-troubled Salton Sea in desert California. That work has won many accolades, and will be featured in a solo exhibition at the Art Gallery of Windsor in 2011.

Currently, she is working with the Injured Workers Coalition, Occupational Health Clinics for Ontario Workers, and the Workers Health and Safety Centre on an Ontario Arts Council-funded research and development project called "Legacy Costs: Burden or Benefit?". The project seeks to examine the real “Legacy Costs” that burden southwestern Ontario communities, left behind by irresponsible workplaces allowed to protect unfettered profits.

Where's her stuff?

Prints and cards can be ordered online (email or call), and are currently available for purchase at the following locations:

- Purple Agave Gallery (Morongo Valley, CA )
- California Welcome Center (Yucca Valley, CA)
- Hi-Desert Nature Museum (Yucca Valley, CA)
- State of the Art Framing & Gallery (Ferndale, MI)
- From the Heart (Windsor, ON)

Sandi's work is also in the Sales and Rentals collection at the Art Gallery of Windsor, and is part of the Hi-Desert Medical Center's permanent art collection.

Although most of her colour work is now created digitally, she still has a darkroom and processes and prints black and white silver gelatin prints by hand.