Faculty Profile profile for newlands

Sarah Wolf Newlands is an artist who has been actively involved in museum education since she began giving tours at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis in the mid-1990s. Sarah's students at Portland State collaborate with local schools and museums (Portland Art Museum, Childpeace Montessori School, The Museum of Contemporary Craft and The Portland Classical Chinese Garden.) Student who work on these community-based learning projects design and lead tours, and create videos, blogs, visual and time-based art. Sarah received an MFA from Portland State University and a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Her own artwork brings together the language of formal abstraction with commonplace everyday things, using repetition and process as methods of transformation.