Sarah EvensonThey/them/theirsarah-evenson.com Animation, Engaged & Public Arts/Social Practice, Illustration, Interdisciplinary, Printmaking/Paper/Books In-person, Online, Hybrid mentor BIO I am a gay, transgender (FTN) printmaker/zinemaker/illustrator/animator/artist-at-large living and working in Minneapolis, Minnesota. My bright and colorful work centers play as resistance, celebrates queer joy, and testifies to the strength and creative potential of the transgender body. My zines and artist books are included in more than 40 institutions across the English-speaking world and beyond, most notably, the libraries of the Walker Art Center, the MoMA, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Tate Britain. But above all, I make art because I believe it is the right thing to do and it makes me happy to do so. TEACHING PHILOSOPHY & MENTORSHIP I believe strongly that the purpose of mentorship should be to empower and encourage mentees to create the art they want to make and to help guide them to do it in a way that it will resonate with other people outside of the academic art world. As a teacher, I value play, curiosity, iterative problem solving, thinking-through-making, and a student’s willingness to create work which is accessible on multiple levels. I believe that there are many paths to happiness and many paths to being a successful artist and want to help mentees find the way that is best for them. My overarching goal is to support mentees in living a creative life and focus on developing a sustainable creative practice from which pieces can arise with ease. I am most equipped to work with gay/trans/nonbinary/queer/questioning mentees or mentees who identify with queerness as a political/social mode.