{"id":57,"date":"2013-01-28T22:09:43","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T22:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sarahwalko.com\/blog\/?page_id=57"},"modified":"2025-10-20T17:53:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T17:53:10","slug":"contactbio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/sarahwalko.com\/blog\/contactbio\/","title":{"rendered":"Contact\/Bio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Walko is an artist, director, curator and writer. She is currently the Director of Visual and Performing Arts at Lenox Hill Neighborhood House.<\/p>\n<p>Professional Experience:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Director of Education and Community Engagement at the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey December 2016 &#8211; September 2023.<\/li>\n<li>Director of Arts Programming, Marble House Project, Artists\u2019 Residency Program, February 2014 \u2013<br \/>November 2016.<\/li>\n<li>Executive Director, Triangle Arts Association International Visual Artists Workshop and Residency<br \/>Program, January 2007- January 2014.<\/li>\n<li>Contributing Writer, Hyperallergic Art Blog, Drain Magazine of Contemporary Art and Culture, Eyes<br \/>Towards the Dove<\/li>\n<li>Independent Curator 2006- present<\/li>\n<li>Curator of Exhibitions, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia, 2005- 2006<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Education:<br \/>Master of Fine Arts, Savannah College of Art and Design, 2005<br \/>Bachelor of Arts, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, 2001<br \/>Louisiana University Rome, Italy, 2000<\/p>\n<p>Writing Publications see <a title=\"Essays, Interviews, Reviews, Novels\" href=\"http:\/\/sarahwalko.com\/blog\/sample-page\/\">Essays Page<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Published Visual Images:<br \/>Wild Roof Journal, The Closed Eye Open, Rocksalt Journal, The Dirty Goat, Redivider, Blood Lotus, Apple Valley Review, 2 River, A Capella Zoo, Awosting Alchemy, Fogged Clarity, 5\u00d75 Literary Magazine, Bathhouse, Zone 3 Literary Magazine, Conceptcion Books, Cincinnati Review, Carrier Pigeon, Split Lip Magazine, In Laymen&#8217;s Terms, 805 Literary Magazine, Autumn House Press, Host Publications, The Banyan Review, Radar Poetry, Rappahhannock Review literary journal, Barzakh Magazine, Permafrost Magazine, Variant Literature.<\/p>\n<p>Curatorial Projects:<\/p>\n<p>On Eternities Tablets: Anne Katrine Senstad, Virtual solo exhibition at Open Art Advisory, 2021<br \/>Now Can You See the Monument? Curated a Solo Exhibition of the work of Donna Conklin King, Index Art Center, Newark, NJ 2020<br \/>No Man Spirits Our Dust, 5-50 Gallery, Queens, NY 2019<br \/>Between Wisdom and Madness, co-curated with Agnes Deja, Index Art Center, Newark, NJ 2019<br \/>Approaching Vibrancy: A Survey of Women Artists in New Jersey, Morris Art Center, Morristown, NJ 2018<br \/>Advances and Retreats, Public art video projections, Manhattan Bridge Anchorage, NYC 2016<br \/>Everything Else is Too Narrow, Baerum Kunsthall, Oslo, Norway 2016<br \/>Decomposing Hierarchies, Public art video projections, Manhattan Bridge Anchorage, NYC 2015<br \/>Crest and Trough, Public art video projections, Manhattan Bridge Anchorage, NYC 2015<br \/>The World and its Things in the Middle of Their Intimacy, Fridman Gallery, NYC 2014<br \/>Beyond Reconstitution, 111 Front Street Galleries, NYC 2014<br \/>A Cage Went in Search of a Bird, Radiator Gallery, NYC 2013<br \/>Windshape, nArchitects, SCAD Lacoste 2006<br \/>This Gift is a Problem for you to Solve, SCAD Red Gallery 2006<\/p>\n<p><strong>Workshops, Lectures, Art Direction, Residencies<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2026<\/p>\n<p>NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program<\/p>\n<p>2024<\/p>\n<p>Fellow at the Human Impacts Institute Environmental Health Lab\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>2022-2023<\/p>\n<p>NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program<\/p>\n<p>Selected Speaker, American Alliance of Museums annual conference<\/p>\n<p>2021<\/p>\n<p>Selected speaker, New York City Museum Educators Conference, Virtual<br \/>Brooklyn Arts Council Grants Panelist, Public Visual Art<br \/>SCAD Mentorship Program<br \/>The First Ten, New Hope Artist Residency Program<\/p>\n<p>2020<br \/>NYFA Immigrant Artists Mentor Program<br \/>Art For Good: HATCHING A Better World, With Our Whole Broken Hearts<\/p>\n<p>2019<br \/>Residency, Chateau Orquevaux<br \/>NYFA Immigrant Artists Mentor Program<br \/>Visiting Artist Lecturer, Endicott College, MA<\/p>\n<p>2017<br \/>Visiting Artist Lecturer, Hudson Valley Community College<\/p>\n<p>2016<br \/>Co-writer, co-director, co-actor, Make Bright the Arrows, film by John Ensor Parker and Sarah Walko<br \/>Visiting Lecturer, Rhode Island School of Design<\/p>\n<p>2015<br \/>Invited Panelist, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Craft and Horror in Contemporary Art<br \/>Visiting Artist Lecturer, Endicott College, MA<br \/>Visiting Lecturer, Kansas City Art Institute, KC<br \/>Visiting Artist and Juror, University of Missouri, KC<\/p>\n<p>2014<br \/>Juror, Wassaic Residency Program, NY<\/p>\n<p>2013<br \/>Visiting Artist, Roger Williams University, RI<br \/>Visiting Artist, Savannah College of Art and Design, Painting Department\/Career Development, GA<br \/>Morning Drawing Residency, morningdrawingresidency.com, Online<\/p>\n<p>2012<br \/>Resident Artist, Elizabeth Foundation, New York, NY<br \/>Resident Artist, I-Park, CT<br \/>Co-Writer, Co-Director, co- set design and actor in independent film Lux\/Nox with artist Malado Baldwin<\/p>\n<p>2011<br \/>Art Director\/Co-Creator\/Composer &#8211; El Cadaver Exquisito independent feature film by Victor Ruano<\/p>\n<p>2010<br \/>Artworks Residency Program, Johnstown Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>2008<br \/>Workshop and Presentation \/ Film screening, Museum of Modern Art El Salvador, San Salvador<br \/>Guest Lecture and exhibition Marietta College of Art, Marietta Ohio<br \/>Guest Lecture Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City Missouri<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recent Exhibitions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2025<\/p>\n<p>August Breeze, Longing for Eden, Van Der Plas Gallery<\/p>\n<p>Explorations of Color at Site: Brooklyn Gallery<\/p>\n<p>2024<\/p>\n<p>Creative Climate Awards, DUMBO Brooklyn, April 2024<\/p>\n<p>9th Annual Urban Soils Symposium: Metabolism of Cities &amp; Soils, November 2024<\/p>\n<p>2023<\/p>\n<p>Between the Feast and the Ground is Where We Live Now, solo exhibition on Governors Island, NY<\/p>\n<p>2022<\/p>\n<p>Urban Reverence and Urban Divergence, Brooklyn NY and New York, NY June 2022<\/p>\n<p>New Hope Artist Residency Exhibition, New Hope, PA, July 2022<\/p>\n<p>2021<br \/>Transcendence, Local Project, Long Island City, Queens, NY<\/p>\n<p>2019<br \/>Index at Index Art Center, Newark NJ<\/p>\n<p>2018<br \/>Case Studies, Index Art Center, Newark, NJ, March 2018<br \/>Baker\u2019s Dozen: 13 Artists on Found Objects, one Black Whisker Gallery, Erie, PA<\/p>\n<p>2017<br \/>Fair Play, group exhibition, Miami, FL<br \/>So That I Might Speak to You of Your Magnificence, Solo Exhibition, The Teaching Gallery,Troy, New York<br \/>Rewoven, Innovation Fiber Arts Exhibition, Queens Community College, CUNY, Queens, NY<br \/>I Embody, Group exhibition in 310 Gallery, Marrietta College, Marrietta, OH<\/p>\n<p>2016<br \/>Gratitude, two person exhibition with John Ensor Parker, December 2016, 72 Storefront Gallery, DUMBO Brooklyn<br \/>Make Bright the Arrows, collaboration film with John Ensor Parker, Film screening debut, Independent Filmmakers Project, DUMBO Brooklyn, November 2016<br \/>LIGHT YEAR 17, Earth Revisited, September 2016, Manhattan Bridge Anchorage Video Exhibition<\/p>\n<p>2015<br \/>To Be Everything, Silo Gallery New Milford, Connecticut<br \/>Audubon and the Avian Experience, Marietta College, Marietta Ohio<br \/>Ley Lines, University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, WY<\/p>\n<p>2014<br \/>Small Pleasures, Ulrich Museum of Art, Witchita, Kansas<br \/>Raising the Temperature, Rainforest Art Foundation, Queens, New York<br \/>Raising the Temperature, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York<br \/>A Necessary Shift, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, New York<\/p>\n<p>2013<br \/>You and I Do Not Come Lightly to the Blank Page, Solo exhibition at Roger Williams College, Rhode Island<br \/>DUMBO Glow, Film and Video exhibition on the Manhattan Bridge, DUMBO Brooklyn<\/p>\n<p>2012<br \/>Codex Dynamic, Curated video exhibition on the Manhattan Bridge, DUMBO Brooklyn New York, DUMBO Arts<br \/>Festival<\/p>\n<p>2011<br \/>Preternatural Exhibition, National Museum of Nature, Ottawa Canada<\/p>\n<p>Contact email: sarah.walko@gmail.com<br \/><!-- Facebook Badge START -->Instagram: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/sarahwalko\/\">@sarahwalko<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sarahwalko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/red.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-688\" src=\"http:\/\/sarahwalko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/red.jpg\" alt=\"red\" width=\"323\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sarahwalko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/red.jpg 539w, http:\/\/sarahwalko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/red-202x300.jpg 202w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 323px) 100vw, 323px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Walko is an artist, director, curator and writer. 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