Sara Emerson

Sara Emerson is a printmaker living and working in Chicago and the current Printmaking & Book Arts Artist-in-Residence at Lillstreet Art Center. Born in Brooklyn, New York, she holds a BA in Printmaking and Social Practice of the Arts from Bennington College. Sara’s experience with printmaking has driven her towards collaborative creative endeavors with others—master printers, print publishing houses, nonprofits, educational institutions, and artists from around the world. She studied as an apprentice printer at Overpass Projects, joined the printmaking department as a technician at Williams College, and completed Tamarind Institute’s Lithography Intensive in 2021. Sara Emerson’s work speaks to the borderlands of the seen and the unseen, inhabiting a world where the tangible and the imagined converge. Her prints explore the delicate interplay between the ephemeral and the eternal. She embraces minimalism and abstraction, creating moments of stillness and introspection. A defining aspect of her work is the use of gradients, which embody the ambiguity and depth of the human experience, allowing for an exploration of the Indefinite and the Sublime.