Sarah’s published and private work include film and digital photography, written and spoken word, and textile design and production. She uses techniques including wool picking, fiber carding and blending, yarn spinning, dyeing, wet and needle felting, sewing and stitching, as well as knitting and crochet. She has also created her own hand tools using metalworking techniques that include sweating and soldering.

Sarah’s training and education began with learning her grandmothers’ handicrafts and continued with tutelage from world-renowned craftspeople and fiber artists. She  graduated from the University of Houston Honors College Center for Creative Work and earned the Summer Undergraduate Research Fund (SURF) grant program at UH and is finishing her Master’s in Agricultural Communications. Her undergraduate and graduate research focuses on sustainability through cottage textile industries, natural resources, and heritage breeds conservation. Her work is also informed by extensive volunteerism in local arts events and several years as volunteer at Burning Man Art Festival in Black Rock City, Nevada.

Sarah carries this knowledge and training into her work through focus on heritage and endangered breeds, native plants and natural dyes, and several published works that center around indigenous and local foods as well as native plants and sustainability.