Personal Watersheds features artist Sarah Nassif’s solo work in fiber and video, her Weaving Water community collaborations and a working indigo dye and fiber art studio. Throughout the gallery space, community-made fiber art works become chair backs, tuffets, wall hangings and decoration.
The gallery is filled with various fiber art materials like yarn, wool and cloth, and tools you can use to make things to add to the exhibit. Everything in the exhibit is designed to help us connect with how water supports us through the manufacturing and coloring of cloth. Add some stitches to the big blue quilt. Try your hand at weaving on the SAORI loom. Grab a book and lounge chair and get inspired indoors or outside by the river.
Podcast
Check out our interview with Sarah on the MWMO’s River of Ideas podcast!
Gallery
Artist Bio
Sarah Nassif is a self-taught social-practice artist living in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She received her B.S. in Botany from the University of Washington in 1997 and worked in environmental education, urban forestry, and data analysis before becoming an artist. In her community-engaged art projects, Sarah Nassif connects people, plants, and place through sensory exploration of natural and human-built environments, hands-on skills practice, and person-to-person sharing.
Sarah serves as Artist in Residence at MWMO. Since October 2021, Sarah’s workshops and art projects have drawn community back into conversations about how each of us can support clean water, care for the river, and share our knowledge in our own communities creatively.