Sarah Workneh is an arts administrator and currently serves as the co-director of Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture in Madison, Maine. She has lectured on her work as a residency director, including at Hauser & Wirth in partnership with BFAMFAPhD, [1] [ non-primary source needed ] the 2009 Alliance of Artist Communities conference, [2] [ non-primary source needed ] the International Studio & Curatorial Program, [3] [ non-primary source needed ] Wassaic Projects, [4] [ non-primary source needed ] and others. [5] [ non-primary source needed ] [6] [ non-primary source needed ]
Workneh is involved in the Maine art community beyond her work at Skowhegan. She served as the co-curator of the 2018 Portland Museum of Art Biennial in Portland, Maine. [7] The exhibition was co-curated with Nat May, Theresa Secord, and Mark Bessire. [8] [9] She also juried the Maine Farmland Trust 2019 artists residencies. [10]
Workneh is active in promoting and supporting Black artists through her work with Theaster Gates, Carrie Mae Weems, and Eliza Myrie on the organizing committee for Black Artist Retreat [11] and through her work as a guest editor of Art Papers with an issue focusing on Art in the African Diaspora. [12]
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