Stephanie Taylor is a visual historian: both a multimedia artist and an essayist who investigates how humans relate to both location and landscape. Her large-scale installations, both cultural and corporate, appear across the United States and internationally. With a degree in history and a master's in sculpture, she relishes the research process behind every project, a hunt for hidden meaning below the surface of what's visible.

To understand what she sees, Taylor writes. For eight years, Taylor was an Op-Ed contributor to the Sacramento Bee with a series, California Sketches, art and essay. She co-authored Water: More or Less, a history of water in California, and Simple Objects, about the 2019 Camp Fire in Paradise. She edited and illustrated Frankenstein: A Graphic Interpretation with the Sacramento Public Library. May Woolsey's Hidden Trunk, a pictorial history, is her first book for the Sacramento History Museum, and she's currently writing a biography of photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White for Bloomsbury's "Women Making History" series.

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