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       Artist Statement

I am a Professor of Art at Cape Cod Community College, teaching drawing, printmaking, painting and Book arts and papermaking. I spend my time teaching and pursuing a professional career as a painter and a printmaker. In addition I am the Director of the Higgins Art Gallery at Cape Cod Community College. I am responsible for seven exhibits each year, which I find to be an exciting and creative challenge. I am the mother of three young adult children and have lived on Cape Cod with my husband for more than thirty years.

The themes of my art have varied in response to my surroundings whether it is here on the cape or in travel. Sometimes my work is very abstract but it is always inspired by my relationship to nature. I am interested in the rhythms, patterns, colors, and shapes of natural forms which I combine in a layered way in my images. Photography from my travels always offers inspiration to me. Over the last several years I have traveled to Costa Rica, Israel, France, Italy, Mexico, Thailand, Spain, Greece and Croatia. These experiences and visual stimuli, provides content and form for my work.. Along with foreign travel I spend a short time each year printmaking at Hand Graphics Studio, the College at Santa Fe, or the American Indian Art Institute in New Mexico. Of course there is no place like home and the Cape Cod landscape provides me with an endless source of inspiration.

For the last several years I have worked in a variety of printmaking, painting and mixed media techniques. I create Monotypes, which are one of a kind prints and solar etchings which are etchings created with a light sensitive plate. I use my photograph to create Polaroid transfer prints. Recently I have been working with encaustics (painting with hot wax) to create mixed media pieces combining my various printmaking techniques. I enjoy experimenting with different processes as a way to think through connections between disparate elements.

In addition I have explored the relationship of images and text. In some of my work there may be a story, or fragment of words to suggest memories or personal thoughts. All of this is my story or reflection of who I am and what I see. I love to make art, it is my adventure.

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            Education

• University of Massachusetts, South Dartmouth, MFA 1988
• State University of New York at Buffalo, BFA 1969

• Salt Meadow Gallery, East Sandwich, MA - 2005-06
• Cahoon Museum, Making Good Impressions, Cotuit - 2005
• Brewster Ladies Library, Brewster - Spring 2005
• Cotuit Art Center, Cotuit - Spring 2005
• Cape Museum of Fine Arts, Gladys Dorfman Memorial Exhibit - Spring 2004
• Women Creating, Cape Museum of Fine Arts - Spring 2004
• Faxon Center, Falmouth Hospital - Spring 2004
• The Star Gallery, Orleans MA, Group Gallery - Summer 2003
• The New Hampshire Institute of Art, Manchester, NH - Spring 2003 Group show
• Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester, VT - Spring 2003 Group Show
• Duxbury Art Association, The Ellison Center for the Arts, Duxbury - Spring 2003
• Women and Wax, Higgins Art Gallery, Cape Cod Community College - Mar. 2003
• Teichman Gallery, Brewster - Fall 2001, Summer 2002, 2003
• Duxbury Art Association, The Ellison Center for the Arts - Mar. 2001
• Open Door Gallery, Falmouth, MA - Summer 2000
• Duxbury Art Complex, 3rd Annual MGNE Exhibit - Jan.-Mar. 2000
• The Gallery at C3TV, Different Strokes, one person exhibit - Dec.99-Jan.00
• Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI - Nov. 1999-2000
• Cape Museum of Fine Arts, Dennis, MA - 1998
• The Wellfleet Collection, Wellfleet, MA - currently
• The Giving Tree Art Gallery, East Sandwich, MA - Currently
• The Higgins Art Gallery, West Barnstable, MA - 1998
• The Cape Cod Art Association, Barnstable, MA - 1999
• Cahoon Museum, Marstons Mills, MA, Invitational Exhibit - 1994
• Gallery X, New Bedford, MA - 1996
• Cataumet Art Center, Cataumet, MA - 1997
• Midwest Print Council Traveling Exhibit - 1997-98
• Federal Reserve Bank, Boston, MA "New Impressions" - 1992
• Southshore Art Center, Cohasset, MA Annual Juried Show - 1992
• Duxbury Art Complex, Duxbury, Boston Printmakers Annual Show - 1992
• The Gallery at C3TV, South Yarmouth, MA "Great Press" - 1991
• Grey Seal Gallery, Small Works, Falmouth, MA - 1991
• Cape Museum of Art, Dennis Printmakers of Cape Cod - 1991
• Hydrangea House Gallery, Small Works Juried Show, Newport, RI - 1991
• U Mass Medical Center Gallery, MGNE group exhibit, Worcester, MA - 1991
• Copley Society, Boston, MA "Selected Works" - 1990
• Gallery at C3TV, South Yarmouth MA Holiday Spectrum, MGNE Group Exhibit, - 1990-91
• Visual Artist Union, Member Show Boston, MA - 1989
• Arnold Art Store Gallery, Newport, RI - 1990
• Falmouth Hospital Conference Room, Five Women Printmakers, Falmouth, MA - 1991
• Provincetown Art Association, Provincetown, MA - 1990
• Midwest Museum of American Art, Juried Exhibit, Elkhart, IN - 1991
• Nemasket Gallery, "Art at the Interface" Solo Exhibit, Fairhaven, MA - 1989
• Boston Symphony Hall, Boston, MA - 1990

• Duxbury Center Art Center, Ellison Center for the Arts - Spring 2003 - Third Place
• South Shore Art Center, First Place in Graphics - 1991
• Boston Printmakers annual Exhibit, invited artist - 1991
• Duxbury complex annual Art Show Second Place in Graphic - 1992
• Cape Cod Art Association, First Place in Graphics - 1992
• Evelyn Lord Rumsey Bequest, Travel Scholarship - 1968

• Cape Cod Community College, Professor of Art, Coordinator of the Visual Arts
• Higgins Art Gallery, Director,
• Past Director, The Gallery at C3TV
• Past President, the Monotype Guild of New England
• Member, Printmakers of Cape Cod
• Monotype Guild of New England

       Contact Information

E-mail:      sara@cape.com