Sarah Slavick

Discipline: Visual Arts

Based In: Jamaica Plain, MA

Year at Millay: 2001

Awards/Honors: Artist-in-Residence, Kirsten Kjær's Museum, Frøstrup, Denmark (2017); Artist-in-Residence, Camac Centre d’Art Marnay Art Center, Marnay-sur-Seine, France (2015); Grant Recipient, Faculty Development Grant, Lesley University College of Art and Design (formerly The Art Institute of Boston), Cambridge, MA (2015, 2013, 2012, 2006, 2005); Artist-in-Residence, Baer Art Center, Hofsós, Iceland (2013); Artist-in-Residence, International Artist Residency, Kunstnarhuset Messen Artist Residency, Aalvik, Norway (2012); Grant Recipient, Artists’ Fellowship, Inc., New York, NY (2012); Grant Recipient, Artist's Resource Trust Fund for Individuals, Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, Sheffield, MA (2005, 2000); Grant Recipient, Painting, Mass Cultural Council, Boston, MA (2005); Grant Recipient, Faculty Development Grant, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA (2005); Grant Recipient, Faculty Research and Professional Development Grant, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA (1993); Award Winner, Challenge Artist Award, Samuel Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA (1992).

Website: http://www.sarahslavick.com

A professor at Lesley University College of Art and Design, Sarah Slavick received the Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant in Painting and was awarded artist residencies at Kunstnarhuset Messen Artist Residency in Norway and The Baer Art Center in Iceland. Exhibition highlights include Big Bang! Abstract Painting for the 21st Century at the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park and Dix Artistes Americaines in Strasbourg, France. Family Tree, an exhibition of her and her three artist sisters’ work premiered at the Aratoi Wairarapa Museum of Art and History in New Zealand and traveled to the Erie Art Museum. Her work was featured in: Interalia Magazine, an online publication dedicated to the intersection between the arts, the sciences, and consciousness; The Boston Globe; Hyperallergic, an online publication of contemporary perspectives on art in society; Diacritics, a journal of literature and art; Posit Journal, and more. While exhibiting internationally, she has participated in the larger regional community through open studio events, charity auctions and benefits while acting as union leader, activist, artist, curator, critic, juror, and teacher. Her studio is in the Bates Art Center in the South End, Boston and she lives in Jamaica Plain, Boston.