AFVS alumnus Sara Stern chosen for the 2023 Fire Island Artist Residency

Congratulations to alumnus Sara Stern (VES 2012), who was chosen for the 2023 Fire Island Artist Residency!

Sara Stern (she/they) is an interdisciplinary artist from New York City. Stern has exhibited and screened her work at venues including SculptureCenter (Long Island City, NY), Anthology Film Archives (New York, NY), the Museum of the Moving Image (New York, NY), The Jewish Museum (New York, NY), and the Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore. Stern is the recipient of a Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist Grant, the Fountainhead Fellowship in the Department of Sculpture + Extended Media at Virginia Commonwealth University, and several residencies at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA: the Visual Arts Fellowship, an LGBTQ+ Returning Fellows Residency, and the Stephen & Palmina Pace Residency. Stern received a BA in Visual and Environmental Studies from Harvard College and an MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University. In recent years, Stern has participated in the Oberhausen Seminar, the Art & Law Program, the Artist Residency at the Carving Studio and Sculpture Center in West Rutland, VT, and the Object Movement Residency at The Center at West Park, NY. Stern’s website is: https://www.sarastern.net.

The Fire Island Artist Residency (FIAR) is a non-profit organization which brings lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, non-binary, intersex and queer identifying emerging visual artists and scholars to Fire Island, a place long-steeped in LGBTQ+ history, to create, collaborate, commune, rest, reflect and contribute to the location's rich artistic history.