About the Artist: Dane Winkler is a sculptor and currently finishing his final year as an MFA candidate at the University of Maryland, College Park. He received his BFA from the State University of New York College at Plattsburgh in 2012, and has exhibited nationally at galleries and public venues such as Rosalux gallery in Minneapolis, MN, Prescott College Art Gallery, Prescott AZ, and Earlville Opera House in Earlville, NY. He has also attended artist residency programs such as Salem Art Works in Salem, NY, Franconia Sculpture Park in Shafer, MN, and Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island City, NY. He grew up on a small farm in upstate New York, and uses details from his childhood in a lot of his work.