Teaching Artist Work Samples

I See Things Change

Artists: Sarah Conarro (collaborator: Julian Bozeman)
Date: 2024-2025 (ongoing)
Medium: Sound recording, video, cyanotype, environmental art
Location: PS110 + McGolrick Park, Brooklyn, NY

Students captured park sounds and transformed them into musical compositions. Students created cyanotypes and visual processes documenting seasonal changes, integrated into the final collaborative video.

—Demonstrates place-based learning connecting students to their neighborhood through accessible audio and alternative photography—

Process-Based Watercolor Experiments

Artist: Sarah Conarro
Date: 2025
Medium: Watercolor & colored pencil
Location: PS319 Brooklyn, NY

K-5 students explored watercolor with brushes and hands, noticing sensory differences. Students experimented with line through ruler-guided and free drawing, then practiced dialogue through critique.

—Demonstrates teaching elements of art through process-based methods and facilitating peer critique—

Boys' Dleigu: Haandéi ax choonéitk'i

Artists: Sarah Conarro (collaborator: Ed Littlefield)
Date: 2012
Medium: Painting, music, performance
Location: Thunder Mountain High School, Juneau, Alaska

Students created window painting relating to three musical interpretations (Tlingit, jazz, contemporary) of traditional Tlingit lullaby. Students visually interpreted using Northwest Coast formline design, Art Nouveau, and street art styles.

—Demonstrates integrating Indigenous cultural knowledge with contemporary art forms whileteaching technical skills—

 

Artist Work Samples

Exchange Rate with Laura Rivera-Ayala

Artist: Sarah Conarro
Date: 2024
Medium: Four-channel interactive sculpture (paint, wood, sound)
Location: The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural Center

I transformed text messages with curator Laura Rivera-Ayala into an interactive audio installation. Questions and answers overlap and loop, imitating how it feels to learn something unfamiliar while creating accessible entry points into Puerto Rican artists' work.


Come Say Hey

Artist: Sarah Conarro
Date: 2015
Medium: Social engagement, performance, installation
Location: Brooklyn Bridge Park

I collected advice from strangers using a stand and notecards. The collected advice became a digital database and multimedia collaborations, exploring how strangers connect through shared wisdom.

Link-Link Club Lecture Series

Artist: Sarah Conarro (collaborators: Julian Bozeman, Farah Barqawi, Mari Lopez)
Date: 2015-present (178 lectures to date)
Medium: Social engagement
Location: Dreamers Welcome, Brooklyn, NY

I launched Link-Link to create space for people to share interests outside their professional identities. We invite people to lecture for 20 minutes about obsessions or hobbies. This nine-year project subverts expert culture through low-stakes participation. Each session ends with pizza, building community based on who people actually are.

Adult Work Samples

Tsu Heide Shugaxtutaan (We Will Again Open This Container of Wisdom)

Artist: Sarah Conarro with Alaska educators and community elders
Date: 2018-2022
Medium: Collaborative Mural, Wood Cutting, Painting
Context: Community collaboration with elders in rural Alaska. Elders cut wood and painted shapes for community spaces, including Tribal Youth Center mural.

—Demonstrates positioning older adults as cultural knowledge holders—