Salt Mound Arts Consulting

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      • Post-Secondary Courses & Practica >
        • Visual Literacy Course
        • Introduction to Exhibition Practices Course
        • Collecting Culture Course
        • Conceptual Art Course
        • Photography I Course
        • Annex Gallery
        • Inherited Traits: Nina Katchadourian & Heidi Kumao Exhibition
        • Parable of the Garden: New Media Art from Iran & Central Asia Exhibition
        • West Ward Recreation Center Mural
        • Student Interns, Gallery Assistants & Graphic Designers
        • BFA Senior Thesis Exhibition
        • Junior Art Ed Practicum: Printmaking Workshops
        • Matrilineage Symposium
      • K-12 & Community-Based Projects >
        • Gallery Education
        • Highland Park Middle School Mural
        • Matsuoka Junior High School Mosaic
        • International Charter School Mosaic
        • Photographing Our Community Exhibition
        • Woonsocket Walking Tour
        • Woonsocket at Work Exhibition
        • WNDC Community Arts Center Mosaic
        • MLK Jr. Day Parade
        • Rites of Spring Celebration
        • Parade of Memory and Thanksgiving
    • Historic Houses & History Projects >
      • Children's Museum at Rutherfurd Hall
      • Sea of Tranquility at Rutherfurd Hall
      • Alice Austen House Museum
      • Woonsocket at Work Exhibition
      • Woonsocket Walking Tour
      • St. Andrew's Society
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About Sarah Cunningham

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Sarah Cunningham is director of the Atkinson Gallery in the Art Department at Santa Barbara City College where she also teaches Visual Literacy and Exhibition Practices courses.

During her career, she has curated over 50 contemporary art exhibitions including 
Rafa Esparza: for you and the sky, Devon Tsuno: Los Angeles River Urban Reclamation, Inherited Traits: Nina Katchadourian & Heidi Kumao, and a solo exhibition by Willie Cole. She previously served as the director of the College of New Jersey Art Gallery, the curator of exhibitions and public programs at the Alice Austen House Museum (NY), the executive director of the Albany Center Galleries (NY).

To complement and extend her curatorial practice, Cunningham is an experienced gallery educator trained in the Visual Thinking Strategies. Additionally, she teaches artmaking workshops including puppet construction, bookmaking, mosaics, and photography for organizations including the International Charter School (RI), the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MN), the East Side Arts Council (MN). Committed to social change through the arts, Cunningham also served as the neighborhood artist-in-residence at the Woonsocket Neighborhood Development Corporation (RI) for three years.

Cunningham received her BA in American Studies from Tufts University and her MFA in Art Photography from Syracuse University.


Via Salt Mound Arts Consulting, she provides curating, teaching artist, and nonprofit management services.