Sarah Drake
“Sarah Drake, MS, is an award-winning collagist, author-illustrator, and teaching artist in Sauk Rapids, Minnesota. She has exhibited her artwork internationally in New York, Moscow, London, Tokyo, Ouagadougou, and Ulaanbaatar. Her artworks have earned her multiple awards, including the VSA Minnesota/Jerome Foundation 2017 Emerging Artist with Disability award and CMAB/McKnight Foundation 2015 Emerging Artist award, and has a piece in the permanent collection at the Marina Tsvetaeva Museum and Cultural Center in Moscow. Sarah has a Master of Science degree in Social Responsibility from St Cloud State University and is the founder/CEO of herARTS in Action. She has worked on human rights and social justice topics for two decades, which guides her artistic creations.”
I love maps. Maps provide us with a better understanding of the space around us, as well as the relationship between specific places and the unique people in them. I had an idea for a 3D map lesson for a while, but I had not found an artist to help me convey the idea to students, so I am excited to find Sarah Drake. For the lesson, the base of this map can be any sturdy flat material. The students can paper mâché forms and features onto the base. They can paint and embellish the map with found objects. The ideas in this lesson are about scale and perspective while also addressing our sense of place within a community.