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faculty
Sarah Malakoff
Professor
Media Arts
Contact
508-999-8559
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College of Visual & Performing Arts 311
Education
| 1997 | School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Tufts University | MFA |
| 1994 | Smith College, Northampton, MA | BA |
Teaching
- Photography
Teaching
Courses
Fundamental digital media concepts and techniques in studio art and design practice. Emphasis is placed on the use of digital tools in all creative areas. Hands-on projects demonstrate and reinforce integration of computers in the creation of two, three, and four-dimensional work. Students will develop a visual and verbal language for developing, analyzing, and presenting work. Course is designed for first-year art students. Laptop required.
The development of a personal approach to photography and video. Aesthetic and technical competence is developed in a series of projects that explore narratives in still and moving images culminating in a final project. This course is open to any student of the university.
Creation of self-published Photo Book. Students gain skill sets within the fields of Photography and Design using industry standard software.
Sarah Malakoff creates large-scale color photographs that are examinations of the home as both a refuge from and a re-creation of the outside world. She has had solo exhibitions at Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon, Anderson Yezerski Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, Camerawork Gallery, Portland, Oregon, The Vermont Center for Photography, Brattleboro, Vermont, the Sol Mednick Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, Massachusetts, and Plane Space, New York, NY. Her photographs have also been shown at The Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover, MA, The NRW Forum in Dusseldorf, Germany, The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., The DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA, The Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME, and The Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA. She received a 2001 and 2011 Artist’s Fellowship in Photography from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and a 2011 Traveling Fellowship from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Sarah Malakoff: Second Nature was published by Charta Art Books in 2013 and Personal History was published by Kehrer Verlag in 2022.
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