About Sarah

Biography

Sarah Dunckel received a B.F.A in Art Education from UT Austin. She has taught art to children at various venues. Her work included large scale sculptural pieces and installations as well as more intimate collages and drawings. Her work has been shown at the Art Museum of South Texas, on the stage of the Majestic Theatre, and in numerous national drawing shows. Some work includes set design for the Children’s Chorus of San Antonio’s production of the opera Dido and Aeneas at St. Phillips College and a large fabric hanging for the season of Pentecost at the Church of Reconciliation. Sarah is a writer of short works and poetry including contributions to the anthology Here is My Spirit. She is a wife, mother, and student of theology and women’s spirituality.

Artist Statement 2004

I am trying to visually capture the pure pleasure that coloring, cutting, layering and pasting brings to me. Sometimes the playful work of these very concrete and repetitive acts is like choreographing a dance. I provide space, costumes, and lighting and then select and train the shapes and arrange them on the stage. They dance on their own and I never know what they are going to do. Enjoy the show!

Artist Statement (date unknown)

My images come to me from dreams, prayer and the natural world. The work evokes plant life and the elements of water, air, earth and fire. It concerns the conversation between the Divine and myself in encounters with trees, grasses, seeds, water, and stones. In this quiet conversation I sense the abundance, nurture, and guidance of God. My desire is to pass on to the viewer the profound assurance that this conversation brings me.