Sarah Wolf Newlands
newlands@pdx.edu
MFA Painting, Portland State University
BFA Painting, Rhode Island School of Design
Selected Exhibitions
2019
FATE National Juried Member Exhibition (April)
Angela Meleca Gallery, Columbus, OH
2018
Keeping House (solo) September 14, 2018 – January 12, 2019
Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Altoona, PA
2016
Everyday Futility: Adapting Form to New Uses (solo)
composition gallery, Portland, OR
To Teach How Perfect
In collaboration with Lauren Moran and Project Grow Artists
Project Grow, Portland, OR
2015
Open Call: An Art Reality Game Show
Surplus Space, Portland, OR
2014
Glean Artists Exhibit
ReClaimit! Portland, OR
2013
Open Studio Artists-in-Residence: (F)Utility
Gallery Store Artists-in-Residence Installation
Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, OR
Divergent Strategies
Bush Art Barn, Salem, OR
2012
Glean
Disjecta, Portland, OR
2011
Sarah Wolf Newlands: Repetition Variations (solo)
Zeitgeist Art, Kalkhoff Bikes, Portland, OR
2007
Oregon Craft Biennial
Oregon College of Art & Craft, Portland, OR
2006
Between Texture & Light
Autzen Gallery, Portland State University, Portland, OR
2005
Emergent: New Directions in Sustainable Art and Design
RISD Woods-Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI
Northern Fibre V
Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
Portland Building Lobby Installation (solo)
Portland, OR
Selected Bibliography
Bartels, Eric. “Polychrome Accumulation.” Portland Tribune, 4 March 2005, B6.
Bjarnadottir, Hildur, ed. Textillist 2004. Reykjavik: The Society of Textile Artists of Iceland & The Reykjavik Art Museum, 2004.
Colburn, Emma. “Are we alive? Soundbites from last week’s Learn for Lunch” PSU Vanguard, 5 October 2020. https://psuvanguard.com/are-we-alive/.
Drury, Fritz and Joanne Stryker. Drawing: Structure and Vision. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2008, 104.
Harris, Beth et al., Educators, Curators and Docents: Creating Interpretive Resources Based on Conversation. In J. Trant and D. Bearman (eds). Museums and the Web 2010: Proceedings. Toronto: Archives & Museum Informatics. 31 March 2010. http://www.archimuse.com/mw2010/papers/harris/harris.html.
Marx-Wolf, Heidi. “Poetic Dwelling and Artistic Transformation: Letting Things Speak for Themselves,” Shopped Remarks. Portland State University, Portland, OR. 5 June 2003.
Murawski, Mike. “Teaching for Independence: Empowering Learning in the Art Museum,” Art Museum Teaching: A Forum for Reflecting on Practice, 10 May 2013, http://artmuseumteaching.com/category/spotlight-on-practice/.
“PSU Kinetic Circus Clicks with Kids.” The Oregonian, 18 May 2005, Metro/Portland 1.
RecologyAIR. “Glean” Online video clip YouTube, 28 August 2012, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibqwj7T7ll0&feature=plcp.
Rennison, Aislinn. “Professor Hosts Talk on Sublime Exhibit ‘The Enclave’ Exhibit Sheds Light on Harsh Realities of Life in Congo.” PSU Vanguard, 30 March 2015, http://psuvanguard.com/arts/professor-hosts-talk-on-sublime-exhibit-the-enclave/.
Schomburg, Zachary, Michelle Swinehart and Sarah Wolf Newlands. “Foreward” and “Welcome to the Portland Art Museum.” Belonging Ed. Zachary Schomburg. Portland: Portland State University School of Art + Design and Urban Honors College. 4-9. Print.
Stuart, Greg. “‘De/reskilling’ Artistic Practice and Museum Education: College Students as Museum Interpreters,” in ‘In Theory, Spotlight on Practice’ “Art Museum Teaching: A Forum for Reflecting on Practice,” 29 May 2012. http://artmuseumteaching.com/.
Teaching
2020 – Present
Associate Professor and Associate Executive Director
University Studies, Portland State University
2006 – Present
Assistant Professor, University Studies, Portland State University
Freshman Inquiry courses: Work of Art, Sophomore Inquiry courses: Popular Culture, and Capstone courses: Museum of the City; Object Talks: Creating Meaningful Museum Experiences
2013 – Present
Portland State University Urban Honors College
Junior Seminars: Rethinking Community Engagement at the Portland Art Museum (co-taught with Michelle Swinehart, 2014-17) and Interpretation and Public Engagement at the Portland Art Museum (co-taught with Grace Hwang, Fall 2013)
2006 – 2017
Instructor, Creative Arts Community, Arts at Menucha
Summer Week-long Intensive Studio Workshops
Open Painting Studio; Costumed Figure; Figure Drawing Intensive; Experimental Drawing; Encaustic Painting; Plein Air Painting; Painting: Watermedia
2009 & 2011
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Willamette University, Department of Art History
Undergraduate Courses: Contemporary Art Theory & Practice and Contemporary Art History
2004 – 06
Instructor, Portland State University, University Studies
Freshman Inquiry: Forbidden Knowledge, Academic Years 2005-06 & 2004-05
Freshman Inquiry: Power of Place, Winter & Spring Terms 2004
2005
Instructor, Portland State University Extended Studies
Haystack Summer Program in the Arts – Painting: Landscape Now; Painting: Portrait as Metaphor
2002 – 03
Instructor of Record, Portland State University, Department of Art
Introduction to Drawing II, Winter 2003; Introduction to Drawing III, Spring 2003
Teaching Assistant, Portland State University, Department of Art
Introduction to Drawing I, Andrea Borsuk, Fall 2002
1995
Gallery Educator and Teen Art Coach
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Curating
Jan – April 2019 Juvenile Justice in collaboration with Deb Arthur and Richard Ross, Office Gallery, Portland State University, Portland, OR
September 2018 Potluck Print Party, Recipe Studio, Hollidaysburg, PA
Sep-Dec 2017 Roz Crews: Imagine There’s a Snake in Every Painting -Office Gallery, Portland State University
Jan-Aug 2017 Larry Supnet: Seven Paintings and a Lightbox -Office Gallery, Portland State University
Feb-Dec 2016 matter(s): Group Exhibition co-curated with Chandra Glaeseman
Supported in part by Project Grow Office Gallery, Portland State University
April-May 2006 The Calder Project, Fine and Performing Arts Dean’s Office, Portland State University
Conference Presentations
2019
Session Facilitator
Foundations in Art: Theory and Education Conference, Columbus, OH
2017
Session Facilitator
Foundations in Art: Theory and Education Conference, Kansas City
2015
Assembly: A Co-authored Social Practice Conference
Roundtable Discussion: Social Practice, Craft, and Aesthetics at Museum of Contemporary Craft
2014
International Committee for the Collections and Activities of Museums of Cities (CAMOC): Presenting and Interpreting the Industrial Heritage and Planning of Cities Using the Platform of a Virtual Museum, the Museum of the City, Chet Orloff and Sarah Newlands Gothenburg, Sweden
2012
Open Engagement: Economies of Eating: Food, Art, and Education Panel and Brunch
Jeff Fletcher, Carl Grimm, MK Guth, Keith Nevison, Greg Stuart, and Sarah Wolf Newlands
Open Engagement: FRINQ Community Lunch
Portland State University, Portland, OR
Invited Lectures & Visiting Artist Lectures
April 2016
Guest Lecturer: Philosophy, Art, and Film
Penn State University, State College, PA
March 2015
In Conversation with The Enclave: Photojournalistic, Psychedelic, and Sublime
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
February 2015
Slow Looking
Organizational and Leadership Theory in Research
Portland State University, Portland, OR
August 2014
Museums, Objects, and Cities: Berlin, Dresden, and London
Arts at Menucha, Corbett, OR
June 2012 & 2013
Art and Garbage
Teresa Taylor’s Freshman Inquiry Course
Portland State University, Portland, OR
Grants, Fellowships, Awards & Residencies
2018
Freshman Inquiry Excellence in Teaching Award, University Studies/Portland State University
Publication Grant, Wolf-Kuhn Foundation
Artist in Residence, Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania
2017
Oregon Arts Commission and Ford Family Foundation Career Opportunity Grant
Faculty Enhancement Grant, Portland State University
2016-2017
College Guide Program, Peer-to-Peer Mentorship Program
Portland Art Museum/Portland State University/Molalla High School
Key Bank Thriving Students Grant
2013
Open Studio Residency: (F)Utility, a collaboration of Chandra Glaeseman, Jennifer LaMastra, and Sarah Wolf Newlands
Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, OR
2012
Glean Artist Residency
Metro, Recology, and Cracked Pots, Portland, OR
Professional & Community Service
2018-2021
Portland State University Faculty Senator
2018
Freshman Inquiry Teaching Award
2017
Mural Committee Representative
University Studies, Portland State University
Judge, Open Show
Lake Oswego Festival of the Arts
2014 – Present
Co-facilitator, In Dialogue Series
Portland Art Museum
2001 – Present
Education Affiliate, Portland Art Museum
2011 – Present
Education Committee, Portland Art Museum
2016 – Present
Fun Committee
Portland State University, University Studies
2014 – 2017
ReClaimit Volunteer, Portland, OR
2016 & 2017
Promotion and Tenure Review Committee
Portland State University, University Studies
2014 – 2016
Peer Review Committee
Portland State University, University Studies
2015 – 16
Faculty Grievance Panel and Committee
Portland State University