Sarah Paulsen
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  • Current Projects: On Whiteness
    • The Invention of Whiteness >
      • White by Law
      • Passenger
      • Consumer's Void
      • The Racial Matrix
      • Jello
    • On Whiteness >
      • hidden white norms
      • Family Culture, Traditions, and Rituals
  • Visual Art
    • Animation Drawings, Props, and Ephemera
    • Painting >
      • Untitled Women
      • Parades >
        • History of Parades
      • Female Flaneur >
        • Female Flaneur Exploration in St. Louis
        • Thrift Store Identities
        • Searching for Art in South America
        • The Grand Tour
      • Portraits of Columbia
      • Group Portraits
    • CamRah >
      • Ant Circus and Built
      • Echo
      • Off the Wall in Utter Pandemonium as We Tape on It.
      • Temple of the Dancing Bear
      • Murals and Set Design
    • Collage/Assemblage >
      • Targets
      • Wanderlust
    • Community Projects >
      • Community Workshops & Artist Residencies
      • Curating
      • Murals
      • People's Joy Parade
    • Drawing >
      • Recall Redraw Release
      • Things for Which I am Nostalgic
      • Sketches and Process Work
    • Installation >
      • & Animation
      • & Paintings
      • Female Flaneur Exploration
      • Found Fabric Screen
    • Costumes and Performances
  • Video and Animation
    • Ant Circus
    • Begin
    • Elegy to Connie >
      • Elegy to Connie artworks
    • High Wire
    • Heart is a Muscle
    • Midwest Hair
    • ¿Qué Séra, Séra?
    • W.O.W (Women On Wheels)
  • Teaching
    • Marian Middle School and College/Adult Classes
    • Animation Workshops and Classes
  • Sales
    • Freelance & commission work.

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Biography

Born in Ames, IA 1977.  Lives and works in St. Louis, MO.
 
Juried Exhibitions/Film Festivals

2022               Parenthood, Art St. Louis, St. Louis, MO

                We Intuit, Houska Gallery,  St. Louis, MO.  
2021               Curious?, Angad Arts Hotel, St. Louis, MO.
                       Painting at Night,
Art/Link Contemporary Gallery, Fort Bend, Indiana.
                      The Sleepover, virtual exhibit 
www.baltimoresleepover.com/ Baltimore, MD. 
2020              Rights and Wrongs: Citizenship, Belonging, and the Vote, the Peale at the Carroll Mansion, Baltimore, MD.
2018              The Great Rivers Biennial: The Invention of Whiteness, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, MO.
                     
 Experimental Animated Shorts, Aggregate Space Gallery, West Oakland, California.
                      Animated Shorts Screening,  
The Roxie theater, San Francisco, CA., awarded "Jury's Choice for animated shorts"
                
17 Days,  Western Michigan University and Alfred State College.
2016              Equality Matters, William Woods University, MO.
                     Exposure 10 Anniversary, Gallery 210, MO.
2015              Moviate Film Festival, Harrisburg, PA.
                      Black Maria Film Festival,  New Jersey City University, NJ. 1st Prize
                      Blue Sky Animation Festival, Wooster, OH.
2014              St. Louis Creates, St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO.
                      St. Louis International Film Festival, St. Louis, MO.
                      St. Louis Filmmaker's Showcase, St. Louis, MO.  Best Director- Documentary.
2011               Dia de Los Muertos, Fine Arts Center of Hot Springs, AK.
                     Critical Mass Stimulus Grant Show, RAC, St. Louis, MO
2010             No New Tale to Tell, Morehead State, Morehead, KY.
                    Ann Metzger Invitational, St. Louis Artist’s Guild, St. Louis, MO.
2009            Built (collaboration with Cam Fuller), Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO           
                     Shrine (collaboration with Cam Fuller), The Foundry, St. Charles, MO
2008            Art and Politics, Hub-Bub, Spartanburg, SC
2007            Exposure 10, Gallery 210, St. Louis, MO
                     Fast Times at White Flag, White Flag Gallery, St. Louis, MO
                     Parabola, Baseline Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2006            St. Louis International Film Festival, Webster University, St. Louis, MO
                     Chicago International Children’s Film Festival, Facets, Chicago, IL
                     International Installation of Video Art, The Foundry, St. Charles, MO
                     St. Louis Filmmaker’s Showcase, The Tivoli, St. Louis, MO
                     Off Course, Baseline Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2002            Venus Envy, In/Form Gallery, St. Louis, MO
1999             Women of the Arts, The Craft Studio, Columbia, MO
 
Solo/Duo Exhibitions
2022              Nature/Nurture, with Natalie Baldeón,  GCADD, Granite City, IL
2019              
Mirror, Mirror, McKendree College in Lebanon, IL.
2017              White Ghosts, The Gallery at Kranzberg Arts Center,  St. Louis, MO.
                     Playing Innocent, The Carriage Gallery at the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities at Brown University, Providence, RI.
                     Pasttimes (with Cam Fuller), Merwin Gallery at Illinois Wesleyan, Bloomington, IL.
2014             Elegy to Connie, Fort Gondo, St. Louis, MO & The Nightingale, Chicago, IL.
2011              Sarah Paulsen, Three Rivers Community College, Poplar Bluff, MO.
2010             Off the Wall in Utter Pandemonium as We Tape on It (w/ Cam Fuller), University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky.
2009            Constellate, Fort Gondo, St. Louis, MO
                     Ants are Coming to Town (with Cam Fuller), Drive-By, St. Louis, MO
2008            Field Drawings from an Expedition, Dzine Salon, St. Louis, MO
2005            Lost in the System, Ragtag Cinema Theatre Café, Columbia, MO
2004            Artist and Community, The Craft Studio, Columbia, MO
2002            Lost and Found, Sunflour Café, St. Louis, MO
2000            Wanderlust, The Craft Studio, Columbia, MO
1998             Sarah’s Circus Extravaganza, Shattered, Columbia, MO

Group Exhibitions/ Screenings     

2020             Pliant Glimpses, New Music Circle, Virtual Screening.
2016             
American Dilemna, GCADD, Granite City, IL (with Jamie Kreher and Daniel Stumeier)
                Feminist Film Festival, Art Theater Co-op, Champaign, IL.
                      Central Library Experimental Cinema Series: Moving Images and Sound: Short Experimental Cinema St. Louis Public Library, St. Louis, MO.
                      Faculty Invitational, SLU McNamee Gallery, St. Louis University, MO
2014              Audible Interruptions (with Cam Fuller), Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, MO.
2013              Spore Projects, True/False Film Festival, St. Louis, MO.
2012               Where Have you Been, Where are you Going? Yellow Bear, St. Louis, MO.
                       Intersecting Narratives, Duane Reed Gallery, St. Louis, MO.
                       Over the Edge, Art St. Louis, St. Louis, MO.
                       Video Night, The Factory and Sheldon Art Galleries, St. Louis, MO.
2010              Multimedia Invitational, St. Charles Community College, St. Charles, MO.
                      Pecha Kucha, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, MO.
                      Humanilliation, BS Gallery, Iowa City, IA.
                      Brica-leuring, Fort Gondo, St. Louis, MO
2008             Guest Artist for Open Studios (with Cam Fuller), Open Lot, St. Louis, MO.
                      Multimedia Invitational, St. Charles Community College, St. Charles, MO.
2007            MFA Thesis Exhibition, Kemper Museum of Art, St. Louis, MO
2006            Antique Row Film Show, Cherokee St., St. Louis, MO
                      1st year MFA Candidate Show, Des Lee Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2005             Documenting St. Louis, Des Lee Gallery, St. Louis, MO
                    What’s Up Docs, and   Ephemeral Landscape (for Rick Prelinger), T/ F Film Festival, Columbia, MO            
2004            Garage Art, Blue Shag Gallery and Garages, Columbia, MO
                      Boone County Art Show, Boone County Bank, Columbia, MO
2003            Designing Women, Ragtag Cinema Theatre Café, Columbia, MO
2001             Paper or Plastic, Ragtag Cinema Theatre Café, Columbia, MO
2000            Senior Show, Bingham Gallery, Columbia, MO

Community Art Works/Murals
2018- 2009   The People’s Joy Parade, Cherokee Street, St. Louis, MO.

2007             Nueva Escuela, Aldea Yanapay, Cuzco, Peru.
2006            Alma en Venta, Upstream Theatre, The Lewis Center, St. Louis, MO.
2005             1 Mile walking path (with CARE Gallery and Eric Repice), Columbia, MO.
                     Arthur: A Kink’s Rock Musical, Macklinburg Theatre, Columbia, MO  
2004            Relief Mural, Columbia Daily Tribune, Columbia, MO
                      People’s Procession, First Night Columbia, Columbia, MO
2003            Your Voices are not Forgotten, Mural, Casa Loma Ballroom, St. Louis, MO

Workshops Attended

2010              CAT Fellow, Regional Arts Commission, St. Louis, MO
2006            Making your Documentary Matter, School of Social Media, America University, Washington, D.C.
2005            Documenting St. Louis, (Matthew Coolidge) of C.L.U.I., WUSTL, St. Louis, MO.
2004            Animated Documentary Workshop, (by Wendy Jackson), True/ False Film Festival, Columbia, MO
           
Workshops Presented
2020           Pandemic Illustrations, Teaching Artist for LEAP Program, C.A.M., St. Louis, MO.
2018, 2017    Stopmotion Animation, St. Louis Public Library
2016             The Art of Social Change "Power and Privilege" with Stefani Weeden-Smith, R.A.C., St. Louis, MO.
2015, '14, '13    New Art in the Neighborhood, C.A.M., St. Louis, MO
2012            Jumpstart Animation Guide, St. Louis Art Museum teacher workshops, St. Louis, MO.
                    Animation with LEAP program, C.A.M, St. Louis, MO.
                    Team Building in the Classroom, Active Learning Institute, St. Louis, MO.
2011             Fashion as Statement to Community, Pulitzer Art Museum, St. Louis, MO.
                    Building a Creative Classroom, Active Learning Institute, St. Louis, MO.

Guest Speaker/ Artist Talks
2020           
Sprawl Session 1: White Suburbias, The Laboratory for Suburbia, St. Louis, MO. 
2018            Closing Speaker, American Studies Conference Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO.
                    Great Rivers Biennial panelist C.A.M., St. Louis, MO.
                    Artist talk with Alex Cunningham, Venture Cafe, St. Louis, MO.
2017             Visiting, Artist, McKendree University, Animation Class, Lebanon, IL.
                    Visiting Artist, Brown University, American Culture Studies, Providence, RI.
                    Documentation in the Arts, Community Arts Training Institute, St. Louis, MO.
                    Visiting Artist, New Art in the Neighborhood, St. Louis, MO.
2016             Visiting Artist, Ladue High School, St. Louis, MO.
                     Visiting Artist, Laumeier Sculpture Park teen program, St. Louis, MO.
                     Documentation in the Arts, Community Arts Training Institute, St. Louis, MO.
2014             Visiting Artist Talk, Forsyth School, St. Louis, MO.
                     Panel, Creative Response, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis.
2010             Visiting Artist Talk, University of Kentucky, Lexington.
                     Pecha Kucha, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, MO.

Press
2018             Cut and Paste, 
 The Invention of Whiteness , 90.7 St. Louis NPR.             
2012              Baran, Jessica, Intersecting Narratives, Riverfront Times, July 19, 2012.
2011              Adams, Lauren Frances, People’s Joy Parade, Temporary Art Review, 
2010             Baran, Jessica, Bricaleur-ing, Riverfront Times, March 24-30, 2010.
2009            Bonettti, David, Built, St. Louis Post Dispatch, June 21, 2009.
                     Baran, Jessica, Constellate, Riverfront Times, May 14-27, 2009.
2007            Bonetti, David, Exposure 10, St. Louis Post Dispatch, August 12, 2007.
2006            Manino, Fran, ¿Qué Será, Será?: For Sarah Paulsen, public art and social   commentary go hand in hand, Webster/Kirkwood Times, October 6, 2006.                   
                      ¿Qué Será, Será? KDHX TV, October 2006
2004            Heitzman, Liz, Niche: Sarah Paulsen, Columbia Daily Tribune, June 13, 2004.
2003            Agnew, Sara, Teenage artists get to hone their skills-and get paid.  Columbia Daily Tribune and St. Louis Post Dispatch, June 22, 2003

Residency/ Awards
2021   Kranzberg Arts Foundation Resident Artist
2015   RAC Artist Fellowship
2014   CALOP Grant
           Forsyth School, Artist In Residence Program
           Mid America Arts Alliance, Individual Artist Grant
           RAC, Artist Support Grant
2012   Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris.
2010   University of Kentucky-Lexington.  Painting, Drawing, and Fibers Departments.
           Critical Mass Stimulus Grant
           RFT Best Local Artist

Education
2007              MFA, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
2000              BFA/BA, Fine Arts and Spanish, University of Missouri, Columbia.


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