Sara Morton graduated Massachusetts College of Art in the year 2000. She received a BFA in Illustration and Communication Design and earned Academic Distinction and Departmental Honors. Painting and digital collage are the mediums she uses to reveal her spirit and define intrinsic narratives. Her inventive, computer-based work can stand alone or become the basis for composing large acrylic paintings. Sara’s illustrations are about the visual drama of experience. They embody intricate and compartmentalized imagery with color that is both intense and introspective. Sara’s training in art began at an early age. Her father, James Morton ( a painter ) helped her with many early projects involving painting, drawing and sculpture. Her mother, Paula Morton, (a kindergarten teacher) also enriched and encouraged Sara in her art. In her senior year of high school, Sara won a number of regional and national scholastic art awards Her mixed-media sculpture “Shim” was featured on the cover of Scholastic Scope magazine in 1996. She also received the highest score possible for her portfolio in Advanced Placement Art. Sara enrolled in several classes at Mass Art and the DeCordova Museum while attending high school to prepare herself for college. As a result, she was accepted to numerous art schools, but chose to continue her studies at Mass College of Art. In 1998 Sara won a scholarship and internship in a contest provided by GameWorks and The World Studio Foundation in New York. She was one of eight students in the country to receive an all expenses paid internship with Universal Studios in California. During her stay in California, Sara worked with animators and designers, developing characters for the “Men in Black Alien Attack” attraction, now at Universal Studios in Orlando. In December 1999 the National Catholic Reporter selected Sara’s “Jesus Digital Collage” to be published in their Christmas Supplement. A 32" x 29" canvas print of the Jesus collage was included in NCR’s touring exhibit of “Jesus at 2000”. The print toured the country for a year and exhibited at various shrines and spiritual centers . During the tour the “Jesus Digital Collage” was featured on Television, written about in newspapers, and then was purchased and donated to the National Shrine at Our Lady of the Snows in Belleville Illinois. In April 2001, Seybold Seminars Boston selected Sara’s “Jesus Digital Collage” for the Non-Student Category of their Digital Art Contest. A large HP archival print was made of the winning piece and displayed at Seybold’s Exposition Gallery in the Hynes Convention Center, among the work of 24 top digital artists in the Boston area. Currently, Sara is continuing on with her career in professional illustration and communication design. She also spends much of her time learning and utilizing new digital technology. In addition to her illustration skills, Sara is also the Web Designer, Graphic Artist and Image Archivist for Morton Arts. Over the past six years, she has maintained the expansive Mortonarts.com website, developing an online business for selling paintings and digital prints from the Morton Arts’ showcase .