In January 2009 Brittany Sanders created a letterpress card for the Montello Foundation. This is the original watercolor drawing, the basis for the card. STAR MAP refers to the fact that the the location of the retreat is in an area of almost no light pollution of the night sky, which is extremely rare in the United States.

Brittany Sanders is a painter and book artist. In 2004, at age twenty-five, Sanders was the youngest artist represented in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition Highlights from the Permanent Collection: 1450 to the Present, Tiepolo to Thiebaud. Her artwork also can be found in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Getty Museum, Yale University and the New York Public Library. She has received private commissions from the George Gund family, the Bonel Collection, and the artist and architect Maya Lin.

In 2000 Sanders founded the Bonnie and Morgan Press with a mission to continue the tradition and expand the boundaries of limited edition art books. The Press has produced over fifteen titles ranging from Last Night We Were Awoke, which depicts how the night sky appeared to the Lewis and Clark expedition, to the anthology book I WAS THERE, which brings together emerging and established artists and writers commenting on seminal experience. In her personal artwork and artist books, Sanders focuses on themes of the temporal moment and the perception of truth. Sanders is currently executing a series of paintings on the theme of “last lands/what can be seen beyond the burden of knowing.”