Conversation / Sarah Thibault + Kathryn Savage

Join us for a conversation with artist Sarah Thibault and writer Kathryn Savage, moderated by Rebecca Heidenberg. Their work and recent life experiences overlap in ways that become clearer the more we speak. Our conversation will delve into parallel excursions to Iceland, grief and making work in dialogue with land. Sarah Thibault’s exhibition Iceland Diaries will be on view in the galleries and we look forward to hosting the launch of Kathryn Savage’s forthcoming book Groundglass (Coffee House Press), on August 6th.

Sarah Thibault (b. 1980, Minneapolis) has exhibited her work at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Interface Gallery, HILDE Gallery, Steve Turner Contemporary, Mark Wolf Contemporary and ART in Embassies. Her work has been featured in The San Francisco Chronicle Datebook, Artsy, CARLA, San Francisco Magazine, SFAQ, The Examiner, The Huffington Post, and 7×7. She is the co-host of The Side Woo, a podcast that investigates what makes a creative life possible and has been a Charter Resident of the Minnesota Street Project studios in San Francisco since 2016. She holds an MFA from the California College of the Arts, a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and a BA from the University of Wisconsin- Madison. She currently resides in San Francisco.

Kathryn Savage’s writing has appeared in American Short Fiction, Ecotone Magazine, the Virginia Quarterly Review, BOMB, and the anthology Rewilding: Poems for the Environment. “Groundglass takes shape atop a polluted aquifer in Minnesota, beside trains that haul fracked crude oil, as Kathryn Savage confronts the transgressions of U.S. Superfund sites and brownfields against land, groundwater, neighborhoods, and people. Drawing on her own experiences growing up on the fence lines of industry and the parallel realities of raising a young son while grieving a father dying of a cancer with known environmental risk factors, Savage traces concentric rings of connection—between our bodies, one another, our communities, and our ecosystem.”