ARTIST STATEMENTMy work as an artist positions the body, psyche, and environment as poetic mirrors for one another. I look for everything that can’t be articulated in words. Textiles and movement house layers of everyday meaning. I love both the common and the strange. I am interested in human's most humble places of finding themselves... alone on a stage, surrounded by others, standing and lying, running and writhing, climbing to great heights and falling down.
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Sarah Muehlbauer's work defies categorization as much as she defies adversity, dancing between aesthetic and athletic disciplines as an artist, writer, and performer. Whether giving stirring form to feelings that might only be expressed through the intensity of circus spectacle, to the quiet everyday-resistance against a drab world with her wearables, her words and work are equal parts meditation and prayer... that art, hard work, and perseverance are the best defense against life's hardships.
Sarah is a Milwaukee-based aerial instructor at Warped Dance Studio, as well as offering tarot and dream interpretation. She holds a BFA in Painting and Drawing (2008) and an MFA in Fibers and Material Studies (2010). Her body of work includes writing and performing live events that join aerial dance, textile sculpture, and visceral experiences of the chronically ill body that parallel our cultural crises over the changing environment. She uses dreamwork as a foundation in her art to access images from the collective unconscious. Artist CV |
