Chitimacha and Choctaw artist Sarah Sense will discuss her current projects and provide insight into her artistic practice. Sense began photo-weaving in 2004. Using traditional basket patterns from her Chitimacha and Choctaw heritage, she combines photographs, maps and texts from her archival research to present biographical, tribal, and international histories. In recent projects, Sense combines contemporary photographs of her tribes’ ancestral home land with landscape scenes of her current California home location and colonial maps and manuscripts. In creating the weavings with these diverse elements, she says her “process of weaving together past, present, and future broadens the visual experience to something that is felt and not seen.”

Sarah Sense is based near Sacramento, California. She received a BFA from California State University Chico and a MFA from Parsons the New School for Design, New York. Her work has been exhibited and collected nationally and internationally, and included in collections of Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the America Indian, Amon Carter Museum, National Gallery of Canada, National Gallery of Canada, and Museo Nacional de Culturas Populares, Mexico City.

Reception to follow artist talk.

Sponsored by:
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Art Museum Futures Fund
UC Davis College of Letters & Science
Gorman Museum Membership Fund