Stepping into Logan, Kansas and the Dane Hansen Museum you get a taste of what Sondra Jonson loves to do. She has 70 pieces for everyone to see, the largest display that Jonson has ever done in her career that has lasted essentially her entire adult life. It’s a career that first took flight in Philadelphia where she’s from, to her and her family moving to Nebraska.
Sondra’s business doesn’t stop with sculpting, she has to mold the rest of it too, as she serves as her own accountant, marketing director, and public relations specialist.
She also has to manage any of the displays her work appears in across the country, just like the one in Logan. But Jonson’s work is much more far reaching than her home region… seeing her sculptures appear in 27 states.
She even has works in both Africa and Europe, including at the Vatican.
Each of her pieces, whether on the other side of the planet, or here in the Midwest, are filled with emotion, and you can literally feel the work that went into creating them.
Perhaps her most well-known work is called “Rachel Weeping,” the depiction of a biblical scene of a young woman, the wife of Jacob, grieving her deceased child.
For Jonson, making a living at a career that she wanted to do as a child is a dream come true.
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Her display at the Dane Hansen Museum in Logan, Kansas will continue through November 30th.
