Welcome to my Web site. This is the place to come for the latest news on my art and educator activities. Please look around, let me know what you think, and come again! And don't forget to check out the button project update , my calendar and the newest additions to the gallery.

The seasons roll around, and fall has given way to winter. The holidays are in full swing, after a industrious and prosperous autumn.

I am again teaching at Heartwood College of Art, a small art college in Kennebunk, Maine. It is very rewarding to be teaching college-level textile arts. My students are varied in age and bring me pleasure as well as challenges.

In November, the art work that I created with poet and friend Mimi White won a special cash prize at the Portsmouth Poet Laureate Project, "Voice and Vision, a Celebration." This photo of was taken on the night of the awards as we stand near our work. Fleet Bank has purchased the work for their lobby in Portsmouth, NH.

In late November I had the privilege of spending a week at the Creative Center in NYC. I was selected as one of ten artist/educators from the US and Canada to participate in a grant-funded, intensive program to train artists to work with cancer patients. I felt utterly transformed by this experience which included everything from two hospital visits (shadowing an artist-in-residence), to a two-hour lecture by a physician about cancer and the body, to a life drawing class, and an educational tour and workshop at the Whitney Museum. I continue to feel empowered and blessed by this experience and look forward to pursuing this healing work. The photo below was taken while we worked on a community sand painting.

Another exciting piece of news is that I have been invited to be part of a three person show at FiberArts in La Jolla, CA. The show opens on February 28 and runs through April 9, 2005. I am quite excited and will be spending the next two months preparing for this opportunity.

Check out the new images in my gallery - you can view images of the newest piece in The Language of Truth series, "Somewhere in the Middle (lies the truth)". This piece, like the others in the series, incorporates the Japanese technique of Shift - twisted rice paper with writing. The text for this work is derived from religious sources such as the Bhagavad-Gita, the Torah, the Bible, the I Ching and the Koran.

Another new gallery image is "Who Count the Dead" from the Portsmouth Poet Laureate Project, "Voice and Vision."

The Button Project will be on exhibit from December 1, 2004 - February 5, 2005 at the University of New England, Westbrook College Campus, Portland, ME. The show is titled: "Woven for the Wall". You can read more about the project and the work itself.

And ... we have a new puppy! I wish you all a happy, prosperous season. Please drop me a note; I enjoy hearing from you!

Peace,
Sarah

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