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Sarah has been actively involved in arts and photography since 1993. Her creative work is rooted in the photographic process and has traveled from traditional study -- years in the darkroom learning the intricacies of silver and light processes -- to exploring photography as new media in the contemporary world of digital cameras and computers. She also creates installation pieces that utilize space and other arts media such as music/sound, video, text, performance, light, and other mixed-media to allow for a more multidimensional experience. As an artist, Sarah’s work is not preoccupied with one particular theme or methodology but transitions with shifts of experience and remains congruent with her own physical and Spiritual evolution. Her pieces transport the viewer through every facet of the human condition in relationship to self, land, each other, body, and Spirit, taking you through multiple dimensions in the experience of timelessness. She has exhibited both photography and installation extensively in her native Chicago and other cities since 1996, including shows with Phantom Galleries, the Zhou B. Arts Center, WomanMade Gallery, Around the Coyote, CHARCOLL in the Pilsen Arts District, M5, the Cornelia Arts Center, the Headlands Center for the Arts, and independently through her own studios and gallery spaces. She has received awards from the Illinois Arts Council, the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, and the Santa Fe Arts Commission and has photography in many private collections including The Prentice and Paul Sack Photographic Trust at SFMOMA.
Sarah graduated from Lake Forest College (IL) in 1994 with a BA in Studio Art. Soon after graduating she began traveling abroad; Europe, the Middle East, Central America, as well as around the U.S., and really embarked on her journey with learning and integrating photography and creative process into her life and art. It was during her time spent at The Headlands Center for the Arts that she began to incorporate other media with photography to create installations and performance pieces. Sarah opened her first studio/gallery, Gallery S, in 1996 in the Bucktown neighborhood of Chicago and in 1999 moved Gallery S to the Flat Iron Arts Building in Wicker Park, where the small studio/gallery became Vital Projects, a community-based photography studio that offered darkroom and studio rental, classes and workshops and exhibition opportunities. Through Vital Projects Sarah worked as the director of the studio and began teaching photography classes and independent study workshops. She also began to develop a deeper interest in the vital role arts and creativity play in reawakening the human spirit and in building community. In 2003, she moved her studio to the Switching Station Artist's lofts in the Garfield Park neighborhood and began working more in community-based arts, collaborating on interdisciplinary projects with local artists and organizations. From 2006-2008 she coordinated and taught arts programs for youth at the Association House of Chicago, a large social service agency in the Humboldt Park neighborhood, and served as a committee and task force member on Chicago's Building Communities through the Arts Humboldt Park Task Force, the Garfield Park New Communities Program and the Center for Community Arts Partnerships at Columbia College's Urban Missions Program.
After 18 years in Chicago, and even more in Chicagoland, Sarah moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico in 2008. Since being in New Mexico, Sarah has deepened her interest in incorporating elements of our natural environment into her installations and in creating public works of art. Sarah currently teaches classes at the Institute for American Indian Arts and the New Mexico School for the Arts. She has also been expanding into other studies that have greatly influenced her life and creative work, including consciousness studies at The School for Humanity and Awareness (Atlanta) and Gabrielle Roth’s 5 Rhythms Dance.
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