vanessa german is a leading citizen artist working in sculpture, performance, and communal ritual to cultivate spiritual models for transforming human experience. Establishing her own self-taught approach and distinctive artistic language, german’s influential practice employs mineral crystals, beads, glass, found objects, and other sourced material to create expressive figurative sculptures that resound through the physical and metaphysical worlds. Her unique sculptural vocabulary transmits healing energy, affirming the power of love as an infinite human technology. Her work is held in the collections of the Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC; Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH; Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, NY; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA; Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY; Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA; Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ; Mt. Holyoke College Museum of Art, South Hadley, MA; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO; NSU Art Museum, Ft. Lauderdale, FL; Pérez Art Museum Miami, FL; Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY; Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT; and Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS, among other museums.