BIO:

Sarah Beadle is an educator and interdisciplinary artist and whose teaching experience ranges from middle and high school darkroom and digital photography to college and MFA arts foundations, photography, modern and contemporary art history, and English composition and writing. Institutions include Marlborough School, Oakwood School, University of California, Irvine, Syracuse University, Willamette University, and Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Sarah is driven to discover the unique way each of her students learns and thrives creatively and academically, utilizing a variety of experiential teaching methodologies.

In her art practice, she alternates comfortably between photography, research-based archive projects, architectural intervention, and collective event production. Her current creative and research interests are the materiality of food, the politics of hospitality, and the performance of care. She works with models of everyday exchange: eating encounters, cocktail parties, or social clubs. But also the liminal spaces of social exchange where reciprocity (or lack of it) is more pronounced: thresholds, back hallways, parking lots, kitchens, garages, bus stops. These models become context for temporary design, improbable objects, photographic query, and events.

BACKGROUND:

Not surprisingly, Beadle’s creative life is informed by 10+ years in top tier, celebrity chef driven restaurants. In addition to her career in education and the arts, Sarah has managed and been director of restaurant groups in Minneapolis, New York, and Los Angeles.

Sarah has produced events and performed nationally at UAG at CSULB, Long Beach; LAXART, Los Angeles; Rochester Art Center, Rochester; Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha; MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles; Materials & Applications, Los Angeles; UAG at University of California, Irvine; University of California, Los Angeles; Carter and Citizen Gallery, Los Angeles; Queen’s Nails Projects, San Francisco; 18 Reasons, San Francisco; NTBA Gallery, Los Angeles. She has exhibited at LAXART, Los Angeles; UAG Gallery, University of California, Irvine; Wight Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles; and Denizen Design Gallery, Los Angeles.

CV on request

contact: sarah@sarahbeadle.com