2019 Emerging Voices scholar Sarah Darro is a curator of contemporary craft, material culture, and design. She holds an MA in visual, material, and museum anthropology from the University of Oxford and a BA in art history and anthropology from Barnard College of Columbia University. She has worked in arts institutions across the United States, in Italy, and in the United Kingdom. Her curated exhibitions have been featured in publications including Architectural Digest, American Craft, Condé Nast Traveler, Urbanglass Quarterly, and Arts + Culture Texas.

In 2018 she completed a Windgate Curatorial Fellowship at Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, where she curated projects including “Tiff Massey: A Different World” (2019), “After Memphis: Crafted Postmodern” (2018), “Treachery of Material: The Surrealist Impulse In Craft” (2018), “The Sound of Things” (2017), and “BEST IF USED BY” (2016). A recipient of the 2018 Houston Arts Alliance Creativity Express Grant, Darro curated “Radical Objects Now” (2018), a mobile exhibition hosted within three significant Houston architectural sites. Darro contributes to publications on contemporary craft and decorative arts and has been selected to jury international exhibitions. Her intersectional curatorial vision is directed toward reinvigorating museum spaces as forums for discourse, innovation, and action.

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