Online Artist Talk: Sarah Christianson, CPA Artist Grant Recipient
Wednesday, March 22, 3:00 – 4:00pm
Free for members, $10 for non-members
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Please join CPA Artist Grant Recipient, Sarah Christianson, for an in depth discussion of her long-term projects about her home place, North Dakota. Sarah is our inaugural landscape grant recipient and we are proud to support her and this beloved genre of photography. Don’t miss this inspiration artist talk!

Sarah Christianson, Oakland, CA
Sarah Christianson (b. 1982) grew up on a four-generation family farm in the heart of eastern North Dakota’s Red River Valley (an hour north of Fargo). Immersed in that vast expanse of the Great Plains, she developed a strong affinity for its landscape. This connection to place has had a profound effect on her work: despite moving to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2009, she continues to document the subtleties and nuances of the Midwestern landscape and experience through long-term projects.

Christianson earned an MFA in photography from the University of Minnesota in 2009. Since 2011, she has been an adjunct photography instructor at City College of San Francisco. Her work has been exhibited internationally and can be found in the collections of Duke University, the National Museum of Photography in Copenhagen, and several institutions in the Midwest. She has received grants from the San Francisco Arts Commission and the Center for Cultural Innovation. Christianson’s first book, Homeplace (Daylight Books 2013), documents the history and uncertain future of her family’s farm by interweaving her images with old snapshots and historical documents selected from her personal archive. Her ongoing project, When the Landscape is Quiet Again, examines the oil boom occurring in western North Dakota. Throughout her work, she uses her personal experiences and connection to the land to evoke a strong sense of place, history, and time. To see more of Sarah’s work, please visit her website. >

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