Painting

Nutopia

Jeffrey Sass began a life in film photography with a cheap plastic toy Diana camera purchased by his grandmother at the Ben Franklin for $2.98 when he was about 6 years old. It got used until it broke. He then inherited his parent's Argus 75. This began a lifelong fascination with photography. Sass has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and his work is in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. His work has also been published in prominent art magazines and books. An award-winning, retired public school art educator, Sass holds a Master's degree in Art Education from Lindenwood University. Until its closing, Sass was the artist in residence at the Jacoby Arts Center in Alton, Illinois, teaching experimental photography and darkroom skills. Currently Sass is starting his own non-profit arts organization called Brick City Photography Center. He currently lives in St. Louis, Missouri, with 60 cameras, a wife, two dogs, and a growing backlog of film that he keeps telling himself he has to develop.