Sally Schluter Tardella uses architectural tropes as metaphor to explore personal ideas of body, gender, culture, and politics. She moved from New Jersey to study Painting at Cranbrook Academy of Art. Her works have been featured in solo and duo shows in Michigan and Missouri. She has had work included in group exhibitions around the country including: Brooklyn, Chicago, New York City, Washington DC. and San Francisco. In Michigan, she has exhibited widely in university galleries.

Currently, Schluter Tardella is working toward an upcoming exhibition, “unsheltered”, at Macomb Community College Art Gallery. A collaboration with sculptor Cody VanderKaay, their project is a visual response to what it means to “have shelter” and to “shelter in place”. They will probe the personal, political, and social meanings of what constitutes shelter and home, particularly during and as a result of Covid-19. The exhibition was scheduled to open January 2021 but has been postponed due to the pandemic.

Schluter Tardella is Associate Professor of Art at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan where she teaches drawing and painting.