2024 George Marshall Gallery, York, ME “Parts and Wholes” Curated group show (forthcoming)
2024 Maine Jewish Museum, Portland ME “Narrative Thread” Solo exhibit
2024 3S Arts Portsmouth, NH ,Solo Exhibit Lobby Gallery (forthcoming)
2023 108 Contemporary, Tulsa OK, Surface Design Association. National Juried Exhibit
2023 Attleboro Art Museum, Attleboro MA, “100”, Juried regional exhibit
2023 Speedwell Projects Winter Juried Exhibit, Portland ME, “Let Me Paint A Thank You On My Palm” On Line exhibit
2022-23 New Bedford Art Museum, New Bedford MA, FiberArt Now “Yarn, Rope, String”
2022 Solo Exhibition, Maine State House, Augusta, Maine
2022 “The Perfect Age” A National Juried Exhibition (Juror Lydia Gordon, Peabody Essex Museum) HERA Gallery, Wakefield RI
2022 Lights Out Gallery Featured Artist on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/lightsoutgallery/ And on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOWameeGv-I&t=7s
2022 Handweaver’s Guild of America Symphony of the Mountains, Knoxville TN
2022 Fiber Art Now Juried International Exhibition, Yarn/Rope/String, Publication July 2022
2022 LEXART Gallery, Group Exhibit, Lexington, MA
2021 Paula Estey Gallery, Newburyport, MA “Upsurge” Group exhibit
2021 Storefront Art Projects, Watertown, MA “Upsurge, too” Group show
2021 “Below, Through, Above and Beyond The Datum Level” Juried Surface Design Association International Virtual Exhibit
2021 “Shelter” Center For Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland ME; Virtual Juried Exhibit
2020 “Mandatory Colors” Juried Exhibit Museum Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
2020 Biennial Exhibition, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA
2020 “Threaded:Contemporary Fiber in NE” Mosesian Center for the Arts, Watertown, MA
2019 “Transformation: Finer as Medium” Https://thecommonthreadgallery.com/gallery/
2019 Excellence in Fibers IV, Craft in American Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2019 “Figuring the Body” Juried Exhibit, Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA
2018-19 Center Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, ME, Biennial 2018
2018 Maine FiberArts Gallery, Topsham, ME Selected Works: Sarah Haskell” Solo Show
2018 Cahoon Museum of American Art, Cotituit, MA “Twisted,Twined and Woven”
2018 Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton MA, Juried Biennial
2018 George Marshall Gallery, York, ME, Invitational Group Show
2017 - 2023 National September 11th Memorial & Museum, NYC, Invitational exhibit
2016, 2005, 2004, 2003 George Marshall Gallery, York, Me, Group Exhibitions
2016 100 Market, Portsmouth, NH/Spring Juried Invitational
2015 NHCT Artist Advancement Grant exhibit, Discover Center, Portsmouth, NH
2014-15 The Art is the Cloth, Juried international traveling exhibit, NH, MA, PA
2014 "Unraveled: Contemporary New England Fiber Art" Museums of Old York, York, ME
2010-13 100 Market Galley, Portsmouth, NH
2008, 2007, 2004 The Wentworth Coolidge Gallery, Portsmouth, NH,
2007 Lesley University, Cambridge, MA “Thread by Thread” Solo Show
2007-03 La Jolla FiberArts Gallery, La Jolla, CA "True Threads"
2005 Silvermine Galleries, New Canaan, CT, Craft USA ‘05
Channel Islands Art Center, Camarillo, CA "Uncommon Threads"
2004 University of Southern ME “The Language of Family” Solo Show
2004 Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME “Contemporary Maine Fiber Art”
Hay Gallery, Portland, ME, invitational exhibit
2003 The Artists’ Museum, Washington, DC “Tribute to Fiber Artists” international exhibit
Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, KA, “Fiber Directions 2003” 2nd Prize
2002 Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH, “Uncommon Threads” Invitational Exhibit
2001 Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME, Biennial Exhibit
Providence Art Club, Providence, RI, Juried Centennial Art Exhibit
2000 Center for Maine Contemporary Art Rockport, ME, Biennial Juried Exhibit
1999- 97, 1988-83 League of NH Craftsmen Annual Juried Exhibit
1981-83 Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME, "The Haystack Tradition: Art in the Craft Media"
1981 The Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institute, Wash., DC
COMMUNITY ART PROJECTS: SELF DIRECTED & FUNDED
"Well Used, Well Loved" 12/15 - 11/17 explored age/beauty/impermanence/attachment wwwwellusedwellloved.blogspot.com/
"Thank you letters: An Alphabet of Gratitude" 2013-16 Community interactive project.
“Woven Voices: Messages from the Heart” 2007 – 2012. A global interactive community art project inspired by Tibetan prayer flags and the Buddhist concept of impermanence. www.wovenvoices.blogspot.com
“Each One: The Button Project, a 9/11 Memorial” 2001 – 02. A community art project using 3,116 buttons to represent lives lost. Purchased by the City of Portsmouth, NH, on long term loan to The September 11th Memorial and Museum. NYC
EXPERIENCE AS AN INSTRUCTOR
Member of the Arts in Education Rosters of: the NH Commission on the Arts, the Maine Commission on the Arts, VSA arts New Hampshire and VSA arts Maine, and Massachusetts and Connecticut Young Audiences. As an artist-educator I have guided residency projects and teacher training workshops in New England schools for over fifty years.
Selected teaching assignments and artist in residencies:
“Monson Magic” Monson Community Weaving, July 2023 Intergenerational community weaving project.
“Biddeford Blooms” a community art residency under the auspices of ENGINE. 2021-22
Museum LA, Lewiston, ME, Mandala Commnity Weaving 2022
Lewiston, Maine, Multiple schools, 2012 – 16
Rock Creek Forest School, Chevy Chase Maryland, 2015
Woodland School, Weston, MA 2011, 2012
Great Oak School, Oxford, CT 2010, 2011
Tewksbury State Hospital, Tewksbury, MA 2007, 2008-10
Franciscan Children’s Hospital , Boston, MA 2009
Concord Hospital, Concord, NH 2008
Frisbee Memorial Hospital, Rochester, NH 2008
Heritage-Havenwood Heights, Retirement Community, Concord, NH 2008
NH Institute for Art, Manchester, NH 2007-10
Lesley University, Cambridge, MA 2008
Crotched MT Rehabilitation Center, Greenfield NH, 2006, 2007, 2008
Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital, New Haven, CT 2005
CT Children’s Medical Center, Hartford, CT 2005
Creative Center, NYC, Weaving workshop for cancer patients, 2005
International VSA arts Festival, Washington, DC 2004
NE Artist-Educator Gathering, Providence, RI 2002, Plymouth, NH 2003, 2004
Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH, Artist in Residence, 2002
Heartwood College of Art, Kennebunkport, ME 1993 - 2005
AIR workshops for Adolescent Girls, Durham, NH 2000-09
NH Allstate Art Festival, Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH 1999-2001
Concord (NH) Mental Health Center, January-June 1996
Manchester Veteran’s Medical Center, Manchester, NH 2002, 2003
Art Builds Community Grant participant: NH Reads in Portsmouth, NH 1999 - 2001
Community Art Project in Manchester, NH 2000
Artist in Residence at the NH State Prison for Women, March 1995
Art Ambassadors Workshops, ME, NH and MA 1987-91
University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 1982
Plymouth State College, Plymouth, NH 1978
RISD, Providence, RI, Summer Session, 1975-76
Plus numerous more elementary, middle, and high schools in ME, MA, RI, NH and CT 1980-2016
EDUCATION
Wisdom University, San Francisco, CA, Masters of Art and Healing 2012
Haystack MT School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME 1972, 1973, 1976, 1978, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2003
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, BFA Textiles, 1976
International Training Program for Hospital Artists, The Creative Center, NYC, NY 2004
Portsmouth Music Hall, Kennedy Center Training for Arts Education, 1996
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2023 Monson Arts, Fellowship/Residency, Monson Maine
2023 ME Crafts Association/ME Arts Commission, Crafts Apprentice Program; Mentor to Katherine Ferrier
2021 Maine Arts Commission, Professional Development Grant, Augusta, Maine
2021 Maine Arts Commission Fellowship, Fine Crafts Fellow, Augusta, Maine
2018 Monhegan Artist Residency, 5 week Fellowship, Monhegan Island, ME
2018 Best of Show, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton MA, Juried Biennial
2017 Hewnoaks Artist Colony, Lovell, ME, residency
2017 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT, Artist's Grant, month residency
2016 Berkshire Taconic Foundation, Artist Resource Trust Grant for community art project
2015 Hambidge Center for the Arts and Sciences, Rabun Gap, GA, Fellowship
2015, 2004, 2003, 2002 Finalist for the Greater Piscataqua Community Foundation Artist Advancement Grant
2010 City of Portsmouth, NH, OverNight Art Commission “Caught Between Us”
2009 Sarah Farmer Peace Award, Seacoast Baha’i Community, Eliot, ME
2007, 2006 Acadia National Park, Schoodic Point, ME, one month residency
2007 NH State Arts Council, Artist Development Grant
2006 Peters Valley Craft Center, Layton NJ, one month residency
2005, 2003 Maine Commission on the Arts, “Good Idea Grant”
2004 Portsmouth Poet Laureate Project, Finalist for collaborative work with poet Mimi White
2003 Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, KA, “Fiber Directions 2003” 2nd Prize
2000, 2002 Maine Arts Commission, Professional Development Grant
1993, 1994, 1995, 1997 League of NH Crafts Foundation Scholarship
1988 Papoutsy Art Ventures Fund: Grant to Art Ambassadors for Extended Community Work
1980 League of NH Craftsmen Juried Exhibit: Honorable Mention
1980 NH Crafts Biennial: First Prize Fibers
1978/1973 Haystack MT School of Crafts: Full Scholarships
1978 League of NH Craftsmen: Travel Grant to the World Crafts Council in Kyoto, Japan
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
ArtSpeak Board member, Portsmouth NH Cultural Commission, 2010-12
Young Audiences Massachusetts Artist Roster 2006-15
Young Audiences Connecticut, Artist Roster 2001-15
NH State Council on the Arts, Artist Roster 1990 –2016
Maine Commission on the Arts, Artist Roster 1999-2016
New England Consortium for Artist-Educator Professionals, Founding member, Advisory Panel, 2000-07
New Hampshire Theater Project, Board of Directors, 2003-06
NH Per Cent for Art Selection Committee 1983-86
PUBLICATIONS
“Pondering the Invisible” a exhibit catalogue
The Women’s Artist Date book, “It’s time to tell you”, a poem 2000
Curriculum guide: "By a Child's Hand: Russian Art from Siberia ", 1994
"Weaving Ergonomics", Handwoven Magazine, March/April 1993,
The Wood Cook's Cook Book, Cobblesmith Press, 1976