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Sara Rabinowitz

Fibers professor

Education

  • B.F.A., sculpture, Rhode Island School of Design
  • M.F.A., studio, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Credentials

Teaching experience

  • Professor, 2015–present, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
    Works with students to meet their educational and professional goals. Contributes to departmental committees to bring current research and opportunities to the SCAD community.
  • Fibers coordinator and visiting professor, 2010–11, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
    Taught undergraduate and graduate level courses in fibers including Woven Structures Workshop using digital jacquard, multi-harness looms, and off-loom techniques; Issues and Practices, a graduate-level research method development course on critical issues; and Textile Printing, a study on themes of repetition using silk screen, digital and analogue repeat network construction. Developed Methods: Collaboration, an interdisciplinary graduate course exploring contemporary collaborative art practices. Contributed to art department committees, advised students on academic resources and course study, and scheduled a visiting artist.
  • Visiting instructor, 2008–10, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
    Taught six courses per year in fiber and material studies and VAT including Intro to Fiber, Repeat Pattern Design, Pattern Making & Fabrication, Weaving, Advanced Fiber Seminar: Topics in Contemporary Art Culture, Image and Form II Reproducibility, and Freshman Environmental Elective: Collaboration. Co-developer Custom Micro-Computing: Smart Objects, Electric Handicrafts, and Responsive Environments. Aided restructuring core VAT curriculum, coordinated fiber visiting artists, developed interdepartmental and community projects.
  • Academic adviser and instructor, 2007–08, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
    Worked with students and faculty to individualize SAIC education to best suit students' needs. Maintained dialogue with students about course concerns and selection. Fostered connections between students and resources at SAIC and in the city of Chicago. Taught Woven Structures Workshop and Intro to Fibers.

Design experience

  • Owner and designer, 2011–14, Sara Beth Print & Pattern
    Independent art and design professional working with clients in the home goods, accessory, and fashion sectors. Experience working with domestic and overseas manufacturing in the production of jacquard, dobby, block-printed, hand-painted, and screen-printed designs. Created factory-ready drawings including specs for repeat-pattern engineering, color separations, technical print, and woven structures. Expert knowledge of computer software for the design of textiles and graphics including Photoshop, Illustrator, Point Carré, and JaqCAD.

Publications and presentations

Grants and special projects

  • Lecturer for Picture Run: Being Human, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Ga., 2018
  • Exhibition committee, TSA Cross Currents Conference, Savannah, Ga., 2016
  • Artist in residence, Airie, Everglades National Park, Homestead, Fla., 2015
  • Teaching artist, Artway of Thinking, SAIC Chicago, 2012
  • Collaborative contributor, Wolfgang Laib: Unlimited Ocean, SAIC Chicago, 2011
  • Planning committee, Open Engagement, PSU, Portland, Ore., 2011
  • Coordinator, ART, ACTIVISM and AIDS, a collaboration between MetroHealth Hospital and Cleveland Institute of Art, 2009
  • Panelist, Walking Through Walls, ThreeWalls Gallery, Chicago, 2009
  • Project coordinator, Rirkrit Tiravanija Collaborative Workshop, SAIC and the University of Chicago, 2008
  • International Roundtable for Advanced Art Students, Documenta Kassel, Germany, 2007
  • Collaborative organizer, A New Institutionalism? Where Artists and Curators Meet, 2006

Selected exhibitions and projects

  • Cross – Pollination, Gutstein Gallery Savannah, Ga., 2016
  • Lucky Draw, Sculpture Center Long Island City, N.Y., 2015
  • Refuge(e), Ditch Projects Eugene, Ore., 2011
  • Farmed, Spaces, Cleveland, 2011
  • Material Studies, Proximity Gallery, Cleveland, 2010
  • Building Peers, Reinberger Gallery, Cleveland, 2010
  • Undomesticated, Wall Eye Gallery, Cleveland, 2010
  • Collections as Evidence of Now, Zygote Press, Cleveland, 2010
  • Lucky Draw, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, N.Y., 2010
  • Colton School 321, Satellite of the NOLA Biennial, New Orleans, 2009
  • CIA, faculty exhibition, Cleveland, 2008–09
  • MarketPLACE, collaborative project with Jung A. Woo, Chicago, 2008
  • Gestures of Resistance, collaborative project with Anne Wilson, Dallas, 2008
  • Wind-Up, collaborative project with Anne Wilson and Rhona Hoffman, Chicago, 2008
  • Department of Flux, curatorial project, Betty Rymer Gallery, Chicago, 2007
  • Take a Break Come Play Checkers, sponsored by Art 44.46, Lakeview, Ill., 2007
  • Pathogeographies, sponsored by UIC, Chicago, 2007
  • Concourse, 2007 SAIC, M.F.A. thesis exhibition, Chicago, 2007
  • Lucky Draw, invited by Carey Ascenzo Sculpture Center, Long Island City, N.Y., 2007
  • Group Show, juried exhibition, G2 and Project Space, Chicago, 2007
  • Eyechat, cabinet display, 9th Floor Sharp Building, Chicago, 2007
  • Digital Beginnings, curated by Christy Matson, G2 and Project Space, Chicago, 2006
  • Intervention in Storefront, Thank You, Vassar, Mich., 2006
  • Curiosity Killed the Cabinet and Turned It Into a Classroom, SAIC, Chicago, 2006
  • Gift Exchange, Country Day School Cafeteria, New Orleans, 2006
  • No Place Like Home, curated by Dan Tague, Giola Gallery, Chicago, 2005
  • Play Ball, curated by Morgan Puett, 2005