Sarah Cargill
Sarah (she/her/they/them) is a performing artist, cultural worker, and freelance curator whose work articulates (and is a consequence of) the relationship between Black interiority, somatic memory, and queer intimacies. Exploring these relationships through the spectrum of sound and silence is central to their practice.
Sarah is one of San Francisco Queer Cultural Center’s 2015-2016 grantees and has curated multidisciplinary 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).
Sarah was the inaugural fellow for SOMArts Cultural Center’s Curatorial Residency Program and has received fellowships from the San Francisco Bay Area Emerging Arts Professionals (2017) and The Gardarev Center (2016). They have written for publications including SFMoMA’s Open Space and Montclair State University’s Peak Performances Journal. In her work as an educator and arts advocate, Sarah has worked with young musicians in the Bay Area and Chicago, IL 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 Ramaytush Ohlone land (Yelamu), in her hometown of San Francisco.
Sarah is one of San Francisco Queer Cultural Center’s 2015-2016 grantees and has curated multidisciplinary 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).
Sarah was the inaugural fellow for SOMArts Cultural Center’s Curatorial Residency Program and has received fellowships from the San Francisco Bay Area Emerging Arts Professionals (2017) and The Gardarev Center (2016). They have written for publications including SFMoMA’s Open Space and Montclair State University’s Peak Performances Journal. In her work as an educator and arts advocate, Sarah has worked with young musicians in the Bay Area and Chicago, IL 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 Ramaytush Ohlone land (Yelamu), in her hometown of San Francisco.
Photo Credit: Andrea Nieto
SFMoMA Open Space Summer Party (2019)
Aggregate Space Gallery
Oakland, CA
