Sarah Slavick Sarah Slavick is a Visiting Faculty member of the Studio Art Department and Director of the Jewett Gallery at Wellesley College. A member of the faculty since 1999, Professor Slavick teaches courses such as design, drawing, and painting. Before joining the Wellesley faculty, Professor Slavick taught at the College of the Holy Cross, Oberlin College, Tyler School of Art, Carnegie Mellon University, and the Columbus College of Art and Design. She also serves on the faculty at the Art Institute of Boston where she teaches advanced painting, drawing, and senior studio courses. Slavick works primarily as an oil painter on wood and canvass, but she also works in printmaking and sculpture. Professor Slavick received a B.A. with distinction from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut in 1980. Following a period of travel in the United States and Africa, she earned her M.F.A. degree from Pratt Institute in New York City in 1986. Since then, Slavick has lectured on her work at many universities and colleges including Stanford University, the San Francisco Art Institute, and Oberlin College. Currently, she is included in a traveling exhibition of “The Fables of Jean Fontaine,” which was first exhibited in Aix-en-Provence in France followed by Temple University in Rome, the University of Washington-Seattle, and the Maryland Institute College of Art. The University of Washington Press will soon publish a book of 65 pieces from the Fables exhibition, and Sarah Slavick’s “The Milkmaid and Her Pot of Milk” will be included.Slavick's work is also included in the exhibit Geometry, opening on November 3, 2005 at the Cushin Martin Gallery at Stonehill college. In 1998, she was included in the Portland Museum of Art Biennial. “Flesh and Blood,” an exhibition of her and her three artist-sisters' work that explores notions of family-genealogy and the body, premiered at Carnegie Mellon University and traveled to Richmond, Virginia and Hong Kong. Slavick was included in the exhibit “Nine Artists/Nine Visions” at the DeCordova Museum in 1996. Slavick has been awarded residency fellowships at the Millay Colony in New York and the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art in Nebraska. She received an individual grant from the Artists Resource Trust Fund. Slavick continues to participate in the larger regional community through both commercial and non-profit exhibitions, as well as open studio events, charity auctions and benefits, and acting as visiting critic, juror and teacher. Described by The Boston Globe as “a kind of abstract portrait of the psyche in all its dense, unknowable layers,” Slavick’s recent work are abstract paintings that reference interiors of the body made of cells, neurons, blood, milk, veins, wounds, and sutures. Many of her paintings are made up of grids of separately painted small wood panels. As the panels are painted separately and then placed together, and often worked further, there are both connections and disconnections between the panels. *** Profile last updated: 10/05