ABOUT:
Sarah Rose Sharp is a writer and multimedia artist. She writes about art and culture for a number of print and online venues. Sarah is a 2015 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow for Art Criticism and is a 2018 recipient of the Rabkin Foundation Prize. She is a guest lecturer at several universities in Southeast Michigan and served as a mentor in the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program in 2018. Sarah has served as guest curator and juror for institutions including Penn State University, Scarab Club, The Terhune Gallery, and The Ann Arbor Art Center, and most recently mounted a comprehensive survey of 70+ SE Michigan fiber artists as part of Detroit’s 14th annual Month of Design (Sept 2024).

Sarah has shown her work in New York, Seattle, Columbus & Toledo, OH, Covington, KY, and Detroit—including at the Detroit Institute of Arts—with solo shows at Simone De Sousa Gallery and Public Pool. She was a Spring 2024 resident at the Surf Point Foundation in York, Maine and as of 2025, a member of both Reboot and SAQA. She is primarily concerned with artist and viewer experiences of making and engaging with art.