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.

As I write, the winter winds are howling, the snow twirls upward in a gust and the wind chimes rattle incessantly. It is winter in Maine, finally! Up until this week we have had an unusually warm winter. So although it is currently quite cold, I welcome the return to a traditional winter!

I have had a busy season between teaching and making new art. I am currently at work on a new series that is inspired by natural and political events that have disrupted thousands of homes and communities. In my art, I have created images of houses spinning, tossed around by earthquakes, hurricanes or political upheaval. These houses are woven using paper which I wrote my personal worries on, then cut into a thin continuous strip and spun into thread. After weaving the ground cloth of hand-dyed linen, rayon and hand-spun paper, I embroider more details onto the surface. Included here is a detail image of a piece in process.

Earlier this winter I was an artist in residence again at John Lyman School, Middlefield CT I worked with grades 1-4 to create two collaborative weavings, one that illustrates Africa and one the Indian nations of America. This is a detail image of one of the weavings.

As an independent artist, I continually try to find ways to grow and learn. I have two amazing opportunities this year. This spring, I will be a guest artist for a month at Peters Valley Craft Center in Layton, NJ. I will share a house with other artists and work in the textile studio of this school. In the fall I will be a guest artist at Acadia National Park in Bar Harbor. There I will spend a month working and living in guest artist housing on Schoodic Point. I am very excited about both of these opportunities to grow as an artist and to learn about myself in new surroundings.

Please check out my gallery and send me a note with your thoughts about my work. I appreciate hearing from you!

And please check out my calendar for current and future exhibits, residencies and workshops.

I hope the beauty of this earth brings you joy.

Peace,
Sarah

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