Conversation with Sarah Thibault and Elisabeth Workman

Please join us for a live conversation starting promptly at 5 pm with Los Angeles-based artist Sarah Thibault and writer Elisabeth Workman. The artist will discuss her recent paintings included in her solo exhibition Things Worth Saving.

Based in Los Angeles, Sarah Thibault (b. 1980, Minneapolis) uses light and color to transform her oil painted landscapes into altered realities. Frequently working en plein air, Thibault’s paintings draw strength and resilience from the land, expressing the possibility of healing through communion with nature. Thibault is also co-host of The Side Woo, a podcast that explores the intersection of art, mental health, and spirituality. She has exhibited at The Pit (Los Angeles), Eleanor Harwood Gallery (San Francisco), Good Mother Gallery (Los Angeles), and Mark Wolf Contemporary (San Francisco), among other venues. Thibault 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.

Elisabeth Workman is a writer and poet with a background in dance. Originally from Philadelphia, she has since lived in Boston, rural Pennsylvania, the Netherlands, the Standing Rock Nation of the Dakotas, Qatar, and now Minneapolis. A recipient of a Jerome Emerging Writer Fellowship, a McKnight Artist Fellowship in Poetry, a University of Minnesota Marcella DuBourg Fellowship, and honors from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and the Minnesota State Arts Board, Workman has collaborated on numerous projects with visual artists and other poets. She is the author of twelve chapbooks—including ANY RIP A THRESHOLD (Shirt Pocket Press 2015) and with Michael Sikkema, TERRORISM IS WHAT WHALE (Grey Book Press 2014)—and the full-length collections ULTRAMEGAPRAIRIELAND (Bloof Books 2014) and ENDLESSNESS IS NO DESOLATION (Dusie Press 2016). She teaches creative writing and poetry at Minneapolis College of Art & Design.