is a gallery coordinator, curator and artist living in Grand Rapids Michigan.
Sara holds a BFA in Studio Art from Calvin College. She works in a variety of media including drawing, painting, collage and embroidery. She has recently been managing the (106) Gallery in the downtown Avenue for the Arts district of Grand Rapids where she coordinated monthly exhibitions and events at the gallery as well as hosting a weekly studio night for local artists. She has been a contributing member of the Avenue for the Arts and Grand Rapids Comic Society and is a collector of zines.
In 2013, Sara took a 3 week bookmaking course at Calvin and fell in love with the book as an art form. She appreciates how bookmaking lends itself so well to the merging of text, imagery, mixed media and experimental process, much like zines, comics and printmaking.
In 2014, Sara was invited back as a guest artist in Calvin's bookmaking course, facilitating critiques and working on more content-driven books inspired by struggle and growth in personal journeys. This past February, she curated the book show "Ancient Grains", which highlighted artists' works from the course. This spring she has curated and participated in a book arts exhibition titled "Landmarked", involving the ways in which we map journeys, in both literal geographies and personal landscapes. She is currently working on a series of artist books of meditations, which incorporate a mix of collage, text, print, stitching and embroidery. The pages of these books are a collection of struggles, questions, and affirmations that mingle visually with running threads and other recurring patterns.
Sara is currently travelling in Australia and New Zealand.
Sara has made time in her busy travel programme for a two day Brisbane stop over, with her friend Teresa, in order to view the Personal Histories exhibition.
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