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Sarah Kabot

Sarah Kabot

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BFA, Ceramics and Fibers, University of Michigan
MFA, Fibers, Cranbrook Academy of Art

Kabot’s work has been shown nationally and abroad at institutions including The Suburban (IL), SPACES Gallery (OH), Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MI), the Akron Museum of Art (OH), the Museum of Contemporary Art (OH), the Drawing Center (NY), the Peabody Essex Museum (MA), and Tegnerforbundet in Norway.

Honors include residencies at the Hambidge Center (GA), Dieu Donne Papermill (NY), the Vermont Studio Center (VT), the Headlands Center for the Arts (CA), and UCross (WY). 

Kabot’s installations, sculptures, animations and collages respond to systems commonly believed to provide social and political stability but are inherently fallible: print journalism, memorials, architectural infrastructure.

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Areas of Specialization & Technical Knowledge: Drawing, Public Art, Collage, Installation

Exhibitions: Her work is held in public and private collections, including Progressive Insurance, The Cleveland Clinic, and the West Collection. Public Art projects include sculptural installations in the Cuyahoga County Library system, the Avenue District in downtown Cleveland, and collaborative projects with her design partner, Marianne Desmarais, at the Westin in downtown Cleveland and the Cleveland Clinic Main Campus.

Awards and Recognition: Sarah has been the recipient of several grants and prizes including a Knight Foundation Technology Grant, Cleveland Arts Prize for Mid-Career artist, a Creative Workforce Fellowship, and Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Awards.

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