Join us for an informative and enlightening evening with Exeter-based woodcut printmaker Sarah Koff as she discusses the concept of invisibility as related to environmental activism/education, through the lens of art.

People care more about what they see in front of them. Unfortunately, most of the problems plaguing the environment (and, in turn, our health) today are invisible to the naked eye, from microscopic nematodes to air particulates. How can we as environmentalists make the invisible visible?  As a printmaker, Sarah plays with layers of graphics and ink transparency to bring visibility to such destructive elements as pfas, microplastics, pesticides, nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus, and more.

Sarah is a printmaker, gardener, and environmentalist. She creates her woodcuts in the woods of New Hampshire to tell nature’s stories.  Stories from her own backyard, like the slow creep of the hemlock woolly adelgid, to such global hotspots as the coral reefs.  But mostly she sticks to her own backyard, because that is where she first discovered her deep passion for the natural world — that passion that has driven her career and now motivates her to make.  A former environmental educator with a masters’ degree in ecological design, she has always been intrigued by the connection between humans and the natural world.  As her art practice has grown, so too has her aspiration to inspire people to become as invested in protecting the natural world as she has.  And from her woodcut studio, she strives to do just that, from telling stories with each print, to pledging a percentage of sales to hard-working conservation organizations, including SELT.

More about Sarah and her work can be found at https://sarahkoffstudio.com/

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