Dr. Sara Witty is an artist and art historian. As an artist, she focuses on shadowed subjects executed in flexible materials that can be pushed in nontraditional directions, despite drawing inspiration from the Baroque and Rococo periods. She completed her doctorate in art history, focusing on the history of architecture, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She was the recipient of an Andrew Mellon Foundation grant and a fellowship from the Social Science Research Council to conduct primary research on American mental hospital architecture. She is a specialist in poststructural methodology as well as the phenomenology of space and place. In addition to her devotion to creating art and studying buildings and dead French philosophers, she has been known to bind books, tattoo people in exchange for cash, and write for fun.