Sarah Detweiler is a visual artist translating her experiences into figurative and narrative mixed media paintings. She has found her way back home to the Philadelphia area by way of the University of Delaware where she earned a BFA in Visual Communications, and New York where she lived and worked for 12 years and earned a master’s degree in art therapy from Pratt. 

 

Sarah is an award-winning artist who has shown her work in solo and group exhibitions in galleries across the country and virtually. She exhibits regularly at Paradigm Gallery in Philadelphia where Sarah has had 2 sold out solo exhibitions. Her work has also been seen on television and film, clothing, books, album covers, and even projected onto a building in Times Square, NYC. Detweiler has been published in New American Paintings (juried by Amy Sherald), Root Quarterly (cover), Hi-Fructose, Create, Arts to Hearts, Visionary Art Collective, Artit, MILKED, and Uppercase Magazines, and featured on art blogs including Colossal and The Jealous Curator. She has also been interviewed for multiple art podcasts including The Jealous Curator’s podcast, Art For Your Ear. 

 

Sarah Detweiler works out of her home studio undulating between her art practice and motherhood. Sarah explores beyond the traditional boundaries of painting by including various hand embroidery techniques and mixed media materials into her work. This allows her to play with the visual levels of the painting beyond the surface while also exploring interdisciplinary techniques. In an age where the accessibility to viewing art online has become oversaturated, Detweiler offers an advantage for those experiencing her work in person.

 

Sarah’s explorative mixed media techniques are woven into the era in which she became a mother. Her work acts as artifacts from this season of life, which is why you may know her by her Instagram handle, @SD_Artifacts.  Motherhood, nostalgia, and themes that touch on the universality of the human experience all have significance is Sarah’s work.