Bio
Sarah Peoples is a sculptor from Philadelphia. She is currently the Artist in Residence at Glen Foerd (6/22-9/23). Throughout her time at Glen Foerd she has installed three large-scale public-works addressing issues of environmental justice, the influence that an exclusive collective consciousness has when forming a national identity and our “shared” human connection to the environment. The culmination of this residency will be a public event on the grounds of Glen Foerd featuring Peoples’ work, site-specific performative mindfulness practices and her planned interactive community engagement on September 24th from 1-4pm.
She has a public solo art exhibition at The Havre de Grace Maritime Museum in Maryland throughout the summer and fall of 2023 entitled Between Wind and Water. Peoples’ writing will be included in the Artist, Mother, Proud & Serious publication | VOLUME I in November 2023 as she critiques the divisive and problematic “Art Mama" movement. Her 18’ site specific Plastic Waterfall sculpture made from post-consumer recycled material was installed in the lobby of the Cira Centre in Philadelphia as part of the the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University and HotBed’s Plastic Free Philly campaign in the Spring and Summer of 2022.
She was lead artist in the DaVinci Art Alliance’s Everyday Future Fest at Palumbo Park in April 2022 wherein she presented Deconstructed Landscapes; a public art exhibition featuring 6 large temporary site-specific sculptures made entirely from post-consumer recycled materials. Peoples has installed several commissioned and non-commissioned public works including her street sculpture series entitled Oil Soaked Neckties, Baptismal Font, Props for Peaceful Protest, and Props for Nature. Peoples displayed a large-scale Plastic Rainbow sculpture in Fairmount Park as a way to connect with her community in the earliest months of the pandemic. Conrad Benner, from the celebrated Streets Dept., described the piece in his article roundup of Top 10 Philly Public Art + Street Art Moments of 2020: “…the arched rainbow (that) became a citywide symbol…”. As an outcome of that project Peoples was awarded a first round Art is Essential grant from the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority’s Fund for Art and Civic Engagement for Monument Stage and Lemon Hill project proposal.
Peoples has exhibited her work in galleries and museums, both at home and abroad. Galleries include AUTOMAT Collective in Philadelphia, PEEP Space in Tarrytown, NY and MWoods, a private museum in Beijing, China where she is part of the museum’s permanent collection. She was proudly a 2018 Fleisher Art Memorial Wind Challenge recipient.
Education
May 2012, MFA, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA,
May 2005: BSA, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
May 2000: Certificate, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Art, Philadelphia, PA
Sarah Peoples is a sculptor from Philadelphia. She is currently the Artist in Residence at Glen Foerd (6/22-9/23). Throughout her time at Glen Foerd she has installed three large-scale public-works addressing issues of environmental justice, the influence that an exclusive collective consciousness has when forming a national identity and our “shared” human connection to the environment. The culmination of this residency will be a public event on the grounds of Glen Foerd featuring Peoples’ work, site-specific performative mindfulness practices and her planned interactive community engagement on September 24th from 1-4pm.
She has a public solo art exhibition at The Havre de Grace Maritime Museum in Maryland throughout the summer and fall of 2023 entitled Between Wind and Water. Peoples’ writing will be included in the Artist, Mother, Proud & Serious publication | VOLUME I in November 2023 as she critiques the divisive and problematic “Art Mama" movement. Her 18’ site specific Plastic Waterfall sculpture made from post-consumer recycled material was installed in the lobby of the Cira Centre in Philadelphia as part of the the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University and HotBed’s Plastic Free Philly campaign in the Spring and Summer of 2022.
She was lead artist in the DaVinci Art Alliance’s Everyday Future Fest at Palumbo Park in April 2022 wherein she presented Deconstructed Landscapes; a public art exhibition featuring 6 large temporary site-specific sculptures made entirely from post-consumer recycled materials. Peoples has installed several commissioned and non-commissioned public works including her street sculpture series entitled Oil Soaked Neckties, Baptismal Font, Props for Peaceful Protest, and Props for Nature. Peoples displayed a large-scale Plastic Rainbow sculpture in Fairmount Park as a way to connect with her community in the earliest months of the pandemic. Conrad Benner, from the celebrated Streets Dept., described the piece in his article roundup of Top 10 Philly Public Art + Street Art Moments of 2020: “…the arched rainbow (that) became a citywide symbol…”. As an outcome of that project Peoples was awarded a first round Art is Essential grant from the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority’s Fund for Art and Civic Engagement for Monument Stage and Lemon Hill project proposal.
Peoples has exhibited her work in galleries and museums, both at home and abroad. Galleries include AUTOMAT Collective in Philadelphia, PEEP Space in Tarrytown, NY and MWoods, a private museum in Beijing, China where she is part of the museum’s permanent collection. She was proudly a 2018 Fleisher Art Memorial Wind Challenge recipient.
Education
May 2012, MFA, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA,
May 2005: BSA, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
May 2000: Certificate, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Art, Philadelphia, PA
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