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Fundamentally a living being, experimenting as a human, Sarah Witt occasionally identifies herself as a cross-disciplinary visual artist. Primarily focusing in performative video works, Sarah fabricates and portrays characters that become influenced and controlled by their environments. After receiving her BFA in Film from Syracuse University in 2004, Sarah relocated to New York City where she was involved in commercial sculpture production and minor sauerkraut production. In 2007, a nomadic appetite led Sarah to Greensboro, North Carolina where she participated as an artist-in-residence at Elsewhere Artist Collaborative and has since been involved as a member of the Elsewhere Tenured Collective. While at HUB-BUB, Sarah expanded her performance practices to include significant installation work. Most notably, was the creation of 12 Sioux-style tipis that she and collaborative partner Ian Gamble constructed and installed in an empty lot in downtown Spartanburg. The tipis became a site for potlucks, picnics, and occasional overnight guests. Sarah collaborated with Ellie on “Spark ‘N Boil” and on a Dan Synergy, a performance piece with the Spartanburg Ballet. She organized regular soup nights and baking club in the fall and winter to bring people together at HUB-BUB; built a large “Blizzard!” to give our town in the winter months; and worked with Woffor’s Surrealistic Space-Time” class. Sarah will spend the summer on “Tipi tour” with Ian and a crew of up to 8 in a veggie-oil-driven bus. Her fall will be begin in graduate school at MIT.  

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