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Sense, Sarah – “Weaving Water 25” Woven Photographs
27" x 19"
$ 1,800.00
Sarah Sense is one of the phenomenal innovators in American Indian art. This piece is entitled, “Weaving Water 25″ and it combines archival woven photographs and bamboo paper. The photography of the setting sun combined with water is beautiful. However, it is the open part of the basketry weaving which makes it so visually dynamic! Somehow the movement of the water, the sky and the basketry all seems harmonious. Sara uses her own photography as the basis for her “woven” paintings. The designs in the weaving are all inspired by the basketry of her Chitimacha Tribal background. In her desire to use the basketry imagery in her work she contacted tribal leaders, concerned about them being used in a flat “painting” as opposed to a three-dimensional basket. With their permission she has created a dynamic art career.
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Sarah Sense is one of the phenomenal innovators in American Indian art. This piece is entitled, “Weaving Water 25″ and it combines archival woven photographs and bamboo paper. The photography of the setting sun combined with water is beautiful. However, it is the open part of the basketry weaving which makes it so visually dynamic! Somehow the movement of the water, the sky and the basketry all seems harmonious. Sara uses her own photography as the basis for her “woven” paintings. The designs in the weaving are all inspired by the basketry of her Chitimacha Tribal background. In her desire to use the basketry imagery in her work she contacted tribal leaders, concerned about them being used in a flat “painting” as opposed to a three-dimensional basket. With their permission she has created a dynamic art career.
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Sarah Sense (b.1980) received a BFA from California State University, Chico (2003), and an MFA from Parsons The New School for Design, New York (2005). Sense’s visual art practice is weaving photographs with traditional Chitimacha basketry techniques. Since 2010, Sense has been traveling and researching contemporary Indigenous arts 
throughout North, Central, and South America and Southeast Asia. She recently published her first book, Weaving the Americas, A Search for Native Art in the Western Hemisphere, a project based on a seven-month journey from Canada to Chile. The project garnered her first traveling solo exhibition, Weaving the Americas, Tejiendo las Amerícas, premiering at Museo de Arte Contempráneo, Universidad Austral, Valdivia, Chile (2011). Another project, Weaving Water premiered in Bristol, the UK at Rainmaker Gallery, with curatorial support from Max Carocci of British Museum (2013). Other exhibitions include First Continental Biennale of Contemporary Native Arts, Museo de Nacional Culturas Populares, Mexico City (2012), HIDE: Skin As Material and Metaphor, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of the American Indian, New York (2010); Pieces of Home, Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington (2010); Reimagining the West, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ (2010); In/SIGHT, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, (2010). Collections include the Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of the American Indian, the Chitimacha Tribal Museum, Eaton Corporation, Tweed Museum of Art at the University of Minnesota; and private collections in Australia, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Germany, England, and the United States.
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Sense, Sarah (b. 1980)
Sarah Sense
Sarah Sense (b.1980) received a BFA from California State University, Chico (2003), and an MFA from Parsons The New School for Design, New York (2005). Sense’s visual art practice is weaving photographs with traditional Chitimacha basketry techniques. Since 2010, Sense has been traveling and researching contemporary Indigenous arts throughout North, Central, and South America and Southeast Asia. She recently published her first book, Weaving the Americas, A Search for Native Art in the Western Hemisphere, a project based on a seven-month journey from Canada to Chile. The project garnered her first traveling solo exhibition, Weaving the Americas, Tejiendo las Amerícas, premiering at Museo de Arte Contempráneo, Universidad Austral, Valdivia, Chile (2011). Another project, Weaving Water premiered in Bristol, the UK at Rainmaker Gallery, with curatorial support from Max Carocci of British Museum (2013). Other exhibitions include First Continental Biennale of Contemporary Native Arts, Museo de Nacional Culturas Populares, Mexico City (2012), HIDE: Skin As Material and Metaphor, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of the American Indian, New York (2010); Pieces of Home, Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington (2010); Reimagining the West, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ (2010); In/SIGHT, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, (2010). Collections include the Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of the American Indian, the Chitimacha Tribal Museum, Eaton Corporation, Tweed Museum of Art at the University of Minnesota; and private collections in Australia, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Germany, England, and the United States.