This is our last art exhibit and artist reception to be held at the UWO-FDL campus. December 8th from 5 – 6:30 pm. Free and open to the community.
Bio:
Sarah Dittmann is a printmaker and fiber artist from Fairhope, Alabama. She received her BFA in Studio Art with a concentration in Printmaking from the University of South Alabama in 2016. After earning her degree she took 2 years away from academics to work in her field of printmaking. This led her to moving to Wisconsin for a job as a screenprint t-shirt printing press operator. There she learned the ins and outs of commercial printing.
Sarah was accepted as a Graduate Teaching Assistant at the University of Alabama in 2018 and helped to teach various classes at the university. In 2021 she completed her MFA in Studio Art: Printmaking from the University of Alabama. She has exhibited her work in many solo and group exhibitions across the country and internationally including Kingston, Australia; Greensboro, AL; Denton, TX; Narrowsburg, NY; and Washington, DC. Her work is in the collections of SGCI Archives at Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw Georgia, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Art Archives in Madison Wisconsin.
Sarah Dittmann is currently a Lecturer of Art at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh.
Artist Statement:
Using images from my family’s history allows me to explore narrative conventions in visual art. The process of researching years of familial memorabilia helps me to understand the traditions of recording and passing down. It is through this I have found the unexpected transference of a nostalgia for people I have never known. Applying inspiration from my family’s Czech folk art traditions of needlework and quilting, I gained an understanding of the women of my past generations. Utilizing this, I retell the matriarchal stories that have been almost forgotten in the haze of patriarchal importance.
