Sara Schneckloth

s a r a s c h n e c k l o t h

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Education

Master of Fine Arts University of Wisconsin-Madison, Painting/Drawing, 2006.

Bachelor of Arts Northwestern University, Political Science, 1992.

Exhibition History (*solo shows marked by asterisk)

2009 * Open Gestures: Figural Units, FAB Gallery, SC State University, Orangeburg, SC.

Shades - Drawing the Space, O’Kane Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, TX.

New American Paintings, Exhibition in Print, Number 82, Open Studios Press, Boston, MA.

Analog Interactivity, Southern California Institute of Architecture Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.

Faculty Biennial, McKissick Museum, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC.

Not Saying, Lee Gallery, Clemson University, Clemson, SC.

* Recall Patterns, City Art Gallery, Columbia, SC.

2008 * Open Gestures: (re)Active Drawings, McMaster Gallery, Columbia, SC.

Columbus Biennial, Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA.

InterNational Drawing Annual (INDA) Exhibtion in Print, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH.

Response to Fear, Lexington Art League, Lexington, KY.

Remedy, Gallery 180, Illinois Institute of Art, Chicago, IL.

Sara Schneckloth & Barbara Campbell Thomas, University of the South, Sewanee, TN.

64 Down - Works on Paper, Five Points Arthouse, San Francisco, CA.

The New American Art Boom, www.artistswanted.org, New York, NY (online featured artist).

Gimme Baby Robots 2008, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago, IL; Vini Gallery, Memphis, TN; Five Points Arthouse, San Francisco, CA;

Echo Curio, Los Angeles, CA; IGLOO, Portland, OR; The White Whale, Milwaukee, WI; EVO, Seattle, WA.

2007 Wisconsin Triennial, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI.

Collection, APT Space, Madison, WI.

Pool, APT Space, Madison, WI.

Contessa Says, Commonwealth Gallery, Madison, WI.

Sara Schneckloth and Teresa Getty - Tracks and Traces, Overture Center for the Arts, Madison, WI.

2006 Waterfall, Mahan Gallery, Columbus, OH.

Art for Change, Winnebago Studios, Madison, WI.

Visualizing TRANS, The Ironworks, Madison, WI.

Diasporic Art Practices, 734 Gallery, Madison, WI.

Breaking the Habit, Old Convent, Plain, WI.

* Imagined Biologies, Ray Edwards Gallery, Madison, WI.

* In Haptic Recall, MFA Thesis Exhibition, Mosse Humanities Building Gallery, UW-Madison.

* Two Sides to Every Story, UpTop Lounge & Gallery, Madison, WI.

Gimme Baby Robots II, One Ten Gallery, Madison, WI.

Art in the Park, University Research Park, MG&E Innovation Center, Madison, WI.

Best Ever, Graduate Review Show, Mosse Humanities Building Gallery, UW-Madison.

2005 * Working from the Reliquary, MA Thesis, Mosse Humanities Building Gallery, UW-Madison.

Paint II, CitiArts Gallery, Madison Municipal Building, Madison, WI.

Second Thoughts, Graduate Review Show, Mosse Humanities Building Gallery, UW-Madison.

Gimme Baby Robots, One Ten Gallery, Madison, WI.

I have an idea: Collaborative Ventures at VSC, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT.

Waterfall, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT.

2004 You Go First, Graduate Review Show, Mosse Humanities Building Gallery, UW-Madison.

Paint Related Materials, 202C Project Gallery, Madison, WI.

Madison Area Open Art Studios, Art Beat Gallery, Madison, WI.

2003 * 1/1, Full Circle Galleria, Madison, WI.

Gallery Launch, Outside the Lines Gallery, Dubuque, IA.

Madison Area Open Art Studios, Art Beat Gallery, Madison, WI.

2002 * Contained, A Woman's Touch, Madison, WI.

Arts Night Out/Night Light, UW-Madison.

2001 Bits and Pieces, Zem Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa.

Soft Serve, South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa.

Close Cropped, CAP Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa.

2000 Day of the Dead, Michaelis School of Fine Arts, University of Cape Town.

Memorialization and Reparation, the Unfinished Business of the TRC, Institute for Justice and Reconciliation national conference, Cape Town, South Africa.

1999 Annual Group Exhibition, 23^rd Street Studio, San Francisco, CA.

Student Exhibition, University of California, Berkeley Extension, San Francisco, CA.

Model and Draw, Installation at Burning Man Arts Festival, Black Rock City, NV.

1998 * Suggestive Elements, 848 Community Space, San Francisco, CA.

Annual Group Exhibition, 23rd Street Studio, San Francisco, CA.

1997 Annual Juried Exhibition of Student Work, College of Marin, Kentfield, CA.

Exhibition of Student Work, Laney College, Oakland, CA.

Annual Group Exhibition, 23rd Street Studio, San Francisco, CA.

Exhibitions Curated

2006 Visualizing TRANS, Visual Culture Conference, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.

2005 I have an idea: Collaborative Ventures at VSC, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT.

2001 African Metamorphosis, Community Arts Project Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa.

CAP Graduate Exhibition, Baxter Theatre Complex, University of Cape Town.

Beating the Odds, benefit for Community Arts Project, Cape Town, South Africa.

2000 Memorialization and Reparation, the Unfinished Business of the TRC, Institute for Justice and Reconciliation conference, Cape Town, South Africa.

Questions of Identity, South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa.

Permanent Collections and Artist Registries

The Drawing Center, New York, NY.

Irving Sandler Artist File, New York, NY.

Contemporary Women Artists Files, Margery Foster Center, Rutgers University Libraries, New Brunswick, NJ.

University Research Park, MG&E Innovation Center, Madison, WI.

Wisconsin State Crime Laboratory, Madison, WI.

Select Publications

“Open Gestures,” Visual Communication Quarterly, Vol. 16, No. 3, Taylor and Francis Group (Philadelphia, PA: 2009).

“Open Gestures: Materiality, Touch, and Embodiment in Drawing,” invited paper, 2009 College Art Association Conference (Los Angeles, CA: 2009).

“Marking Time, Figuring Space: Gesture and the Embodied Moment,” Journal of Visual Culture, Vol. 7, No. 3, Sage Publications (London: 2008).

“Speculating on a Nervous Line,” Manifest International Drawing Annual (Cincinnati, OH: 2008).

Discovering Others: A Creative Arts Resource Guide, Juta Press (Cape Town, South Africa: 2004).

“Art and Expression: Balancing Technique and Exploration,” Child and Youth Care, Vol 18, No 8 (Cape Town, South Africa: 2000).

Professional Positions

2007 – present Assistant Professor - Drawing, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC.

2006 – 2007 Lecturer - Drawing I and II, Intermediate and Advanced Drawing, Watercolor I and II, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

2006 – 2007 Senior Instructional Specialist - Painting, PEOPLE Pre-College Enrichment Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

2004 – 2006 Teaching Assistant - Drawing I and II, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

2002 – 2004 Arts Initiatives Project Manager - Institute for Justice and Reconciliation, Cape Town, South Africa.

2000 – 2002 Senior Instructor and Program Coordinator - Arts and Media Access Centre (formerly Community Arts Project), Cape Town, South Africa.

2001 Senior Instructor - Youth Art Camp, Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA

1996 Teacher’s Assistant - San Francisco Day School, San Francisco, CA.

Awards, Honors and Fellowships

Hambidge Center for the Arts Fellowship, 2009.

University of South Carolina Research Opportunity Grant, 2008-2009.

Overture Center for the Arts Exhibition Grant, 2007.

Wisconsin Arts Board Public Art Commission, WI State Crime Laboratory, 2007.

Wisconsin Arts Board Percent for Art Mentorship Program, 2006.

Vilas Graduate Travel Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2005.

Kenneth D. Brown and Robert G. Kaentje Painting Award, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2005.

Pleasant T. Rowland Foundation Full Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center Residency, 2005.

Edith L. Gilbertson Scholarship, Art Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2004.