{{Short description|American artist}} '''Sara Black''' (born 1978) is an American artist. She currently teaches at Antioch College and previously taught at Northwestern University and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.<ref>[http://antiochcollege.org/news/archive/artist_sara_black_joins_faculty.html Chicago Artist Sara A. Black Joins the Antioch College Faculty - Antioch College<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref name=autogenerated1>[http://www.chicagohumanities.org/Profile/Bio.aspx?userid=c1f79a89-30f8-4973-b6d3-466e2b936ef6 Chicago Humanities Festival | Profile | Bio<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> Her "performances, sculpture, installation, and collaborative works evolve around an interest in how materials move through the world and the shifting designation of values in American culture."<ref>[http://www.art.northwestern.edu/calendar/visiting/black.html Art Theory and Practice<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>[http://www.sarablack.org www.sarablack.org<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> She holds a BFA in sculpture and installation from the University of Chicago, a Bachelor of Arts in environmental studies and art from The Evergreen State College, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in sculpture and painting from the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire. She was a co-founder of the art collective ''Material Exchange'' which was active in Chicago until 2010<ref>[http://www.material-exchange.org www.material-exchange.org<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> and currently works collaboratively with artists Jillian Soto, Charlie Vinz and others. Her work has been widely exhibited in several galleries including the Smart Museum of Art, the ''Experimental Station'', the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, the ''Betty Rymer Gallery'', Gallery 400, the Hyde Park Art Center, Portland State University, ''The Park Avenue Armory, New York'', ''The Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland'', ''Eyebeam, New York'' and the ''DeVos Art Museum''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ox-bow.org/experience/faculty-directory |title=Ox-Bow |accessdate=2012-01-27 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120517144421/http://www.ox-bow.org/experience/faculty-directory |archivedate=2012-05-17 }}</ref>
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