Sara Jane Pronko was born in East St. Louis, Illinois. She has lived in Kansas City since earning her bachelor’s degree from the University of Kansas in 1962. Pronko has continued her art education through additional coursework in studio art and art history at the Kansas City Art Institute, and the University of Kansas. Pronko’s work is represented in various public and private collections throughout the United States and Europe as well as corporate collections across the country. These include Palmer Square Wealth Management, Hallmark Corporation, Mutual Benefit Life, Kansas City Power & Light, American Century Investments, Kaiser Permanente, the Stowers Institute, St. Luke’s Hospital, Overland Park Convention Center, Santa Fe Railroad, Mercantile Bank, Ernst & Young, Werner Trucking, and United Missouri Bank. For Pronko, her art is of a landscape we inhabit but in many ways never see. The process of painting is about seeing and communicating this vision on canvas. Her concern is the urban environment of forgettable architecture, advertisements, mini-malls, headlights and taillights; all the staggering visual cacophony we live with on a daily basis. Hours of our lives are spent on the road, always going, but seldom arriving, always moving and looking for what could be or what was lost. The "others" we pass are merely shadowy figures. We do not know them or they us. Is it possible to find some order and beauty in this chaos and translate it into shared experience?