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Artist andart teacher.

Matisse lived by the philosophy, "Creativity takes courage". I hope to help my students find this courage every day.

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Sarah in a sunlit gallery, a canvas tote over one shoulder, with a row of small paintings hung on the wall behind her.

Hi, I'm Sarah!

Growing up in a Midwest family that valued education, I was a dedicated student. However, it was through my high school IB art classes that I truly found my voice, learning to see the world through line, color, and form.

I initially pursued a marketing career, and then a nagging desire to make a deeper impact led me back to my creative roots. From painting through my personal struggles to advocating through poster design, art remained my language of choice. Now, after completing my Master's in Education at Colorado State University, I'm merging my passion for artistic expression with my love for working with young learners. Shaped by my experiences in Michigan public schools and life abroad in South Korea, I believe in creating inclusive classrooms where creativity, critical thinking, and empathy thrive. My goal is to help students use art to discover who they are and how they want to shape the world!

Never stop creating.

That's the lifestyle I strive to lead. I love working with a variety of 2D and 3D mediums.

  • A silver teapot and teacup with cat faces and dark eye masks, sitting on a pink cloth against soft green.
  • A crowded composition of stylized faces and reaching hands in red, orange, yellow and purple, with fragments of lettering across the top.
  • A dense black-and-white drawing packed with music and machinery — an electric guitar, vinyl records, a speaker cone and rollercoaster track — with the words "THE NOISE" worked into the lower edge.
  • A collage of bare shoulders and backs drawn in charcoal, overlaid with torn pages of printed text and a block of red and blue where a face would be.
  • Two skulls rendered in warm ochre on a page of printed book text, with a dried sprig of seed pods laid alongside.
  • A punch-needle textile portrait of the head of Michelangelo’s David, worked in pink and deep red yarn, on a pale blue backdrop.
    Punch needle
  • A small bronze sculpture of branching, twisting limbs rising from a flat base, on a pale blue backdrop.
    Bronze
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Finding joy in the small things.

Rock climbing, camping, swapping book recs with friends, making homemade horror movies, and spending quality time with family — those are some of my joys in life!

  • Sarah in a graduation cap and stole, sitting on the stone steps of a university building.
  • Sarah and a friend baking together at a kitchen island, rolling pin and mixing bowls in front of them.
  • Sarah in a red climbing helmet, smiling, with pines and a rock face behind her.
  • A climber high on a boulder, seen from below against a clear blue sky.
  • A hand holding an open sketchbook up against the view it holds — a river running through a pine valley.
  • Three people walking two dogs along a gravel path beside open water.
  • Three friends filming at home — one in a white mask, another holding a camera, in front of a bookshelf.
  • Sarah standing in a sunlit gallery with tall arched windows, a row of small paintings hung along the wall behind her.
  • Sarah drawing in a sketchbook at a kitchen counter, tucked up on the bench under a round lamp.
  • Sarah standing beside a small framed painting hung on a wood-panelled wall.