about

Sarah Cargill (she/her/they/them) is an interdisciplinary artist, cultural worker, creative entrepreneur, and spiritual care practitioner who uses the mediums of sound, performance, storytelling, and divination to facilitate experiments in Deep Listening. Sarah’s work and research meet at the intersection of visionary fiction, care work, and queer(ed) intimacies. Black interiority and the aesthetics of Quiet (as articulated by scholar Kevin Quashie) and the Erotic (as articulated by Audre Lorde) are frequent reference points that ground her theoretical framework, creative approach and aesthetic language.

Inspired by the visionary fiction of Octavia Butler and in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Sarah launched her podcast Tarot for the End of Times in 2020, which remains as her longest durational experiment in community care to date. Today, it lives on as an educational guide and open resource for those seeking spiritual care during seasons of change.

Sarah is a recipient of the San Francisco Arts Commission's Individual Artist Grant for the 2020-2021 grant cycle and was the inaugural fellow for SOMArts Cultural Center’s Curatorial Residency Program. She has completed fellowships with San Francisco's nonbinary and women of color writing collective The Ruby (2019), San Francisco Bay Area Emerging Arts Professionals (2017), and The Gardarev Center (2016). They have written for publications including SFMOMA’s online publication Open Space and Montclair State University’s Peak Performances Journal.

Sarah was one of San Francisco Queer Cultural Center’s 2015-2016 grantees and has curated interdisciplinary showcases including Drawing Lineage, Building Legacy (2016), an intergenerational QTPoC (queer and trans of color) centered chamber music project featured at the 19th Annual National Queer Arts Festival, and But Tell Me What It Feels Like: The Erotic Practice of Liberation (2018), a 3-day experimental performing arts festival exhibited at SOMArts Cultural Center. She has appeared as a soloist in numerous productions including Queer Rebels (2013), Stories of Queer Diaspora (2014), and SOMArts Cultural Center's The News (2016). In her work as an educator and arts advocate, Sarah has worked with young musicians in the Bay Area and Chicago, Illinois as a teaching artist and has served as a member of the Board of Directors for Bay Area Girls Rock Camp in Oakland, CA (2015-2017). She currently resides on unceded Lisjan Ohlone land (Huchiun), also known as Oakland, CA.