In addition to creating powerful, metaphysical transcendent works of art, Sarah McCord is passionate about holding communal, sacred artistic space to experience connection and shared humanity. She is a natural teacher, a gifted writer, and a born artist who incorporates art history, creativity, and art techniques to break down barriers. Sarah facilitates accessible art creation as a tool of meaning-making, enlightenment, and healing. She creates unique commissioned art that is infused with personalized energy imprints, specific symbols and meaning, and timeless resonant beauty.
Sarah McCord is someone who brings beauty into heightened awareness in everyday life. From early childhood, she was noted to have natural talents in the visual arts. This was encouraged by gifts she received of art supplies she often considered too precious to open because of their high value of being the ones “real” artists would use. When not pouring over coffee table books of Georgia O’Keeffe and Degas in the back of the library, she made gifts from pinecones, homemade clay, bits of string, and colored paper. Not a holiday went by when everyone on her list wasn’t given usable objects to treasure. This inherent creative ability flows through everything Sarah paints.
Sarah comes from a long line of survivors. Her grandmother was a three-time breast cancer survivor and as a child, Sarah spent time caring for an aunt disabled by multiple sclerosis. Her mother and father who were children of alcoholics, passed on their abusive behavior and Sarah survived that, too. The oldest of three siblings, she survived a “twin” cousin’s death of cancer at sixteen. The key to this survival was her ability to focus on the beauty of this world to cultivate and maintain a sense of hope and endurance.
Though she won Best of Show in her high school art show and was encouraged to pursue art school by her art instructors, by necessity she had to pursue a more practical path. She graduated with a nursing degree, got married, had three children, and adopted two more with special needs. Her gift lay dormant for ten years. When she came out as a lesbian, she found that if anything, the gift had not faded but only heightened. Her talent was right where she had left it – and it was a new sort of survival tool for herself and others. From then on, the brush has not left her hand and she is usually painting or giving workshops on painting!
Sarah takes her lived experiences, neurodivergence, wisdom,
and insights and translates them, brush stroke by brush stroke into forms that
communicate a spiritual resonance to the beholder. Her works combine such elements as plants,
birds, sacred geometry, and symbolic color.
She provokes consideration, observation, and attunement to the
environment and inspiring moments of reflection and connection with elements
larger than oneself. She endeavors to
transmit the same awareness of beauty to inspire and enlighten others.
October 2020 Creative Catalyst University of North Carolina School of the Arts- Thomas Kenan Institute October 2020
The Atonement Project University of Michigan, Ashley Lucas January 2020
Self Portrait Workshop Shauna Levenson and Dorielle Caimi Developing a Visual Language Rachel Popowcer November 2017
A La Prima Portraiture Kerry Dunn
May 2017 Alternative Teaching Licensure in Special Education, K-12 Eastern New Mexico University, 4.0 GPA December 2003 Bachelors of Science, Nursing University of New Mexico, Summa Cum Laud
March 2022 “Water is Life”, Tortuga Gallery, group show
March 2022 “Light Out of Dark”, Ricochet Gallery, group show
March 2022 “A Rough Patch”, Rebel Galley and Prints, group show
March 2022 “Put a Bird on It”, Tortuga Gallery, group show
February 2022 “The Low Rez Art Show”, Mothership Alumni Gallery, group show October 2021 “Creepshow”, Mothership Alumni Gallery, group show
June 2019 OT Circus, group opening
August 2018 OFF Center, group gallery
May 2017 “All Members Show” First Unitarian Church
September 2017 New Mexico State Fair
“Knock on Wood” Series 1, 8 Pieces, birds and sacred geometry on wood panel sold in entirety opening night at Ricochet gallery- purchased by Sammi 3/2022
“The Ravens” 12 pieces mixed media, shown at Mothership Alumni Gallery, three sold to private collections, the remainder currently for sale as part of a group show at Ricochet Gallery, purchased respectively 10/2021, 1/2022, 3/2022
“Grandmother's Chair” 2/2022
“Moon Over the Sandias”-Barbara Jordan 3/2022
“Triangulation”- Ruth Harrigan 2/2022
“The Hummer”-Marissa Nordstrom- 5/2021
“Something Growing Inside Me”-Carlos Contreras 2/2022
“Sweet silver Angel/Jesus was a Crossmaker”-at auction 1/2022
2021-Marissa Nordstrom-personal narrative landscape for gift
2021-Alison Grady-two-part bird commission for gift
2021-Ben Sears- hummingbird commission for gift
2021-Carol Roullard- roadrunner commission
2022-Trinette Nordstrom Langner-personal narrative landscape for gift
2022-Mathew Parameter-Villarreal-personal figurative and landscape narrative
Community involvement: Coffee and Creatives
Volunteer: Prison Creative Arts Project, Family Promise, New Day
Donations: Keshet Dance Company, AA LGBTQ+, First Unitarian Social Justice, OFF Centr Arts
Production: The Wet Stuff Podcast
Interviewed on KOB Morning Show about offering Van Gogh-inspired workshop April 2022
January 2022 “Desert visions: Paint a Landscape as Seen Through Georgia O’Keeffe’s Eyes”-Mirhaven Community Center
February 2022 “Paint the One you Kiss-Paint a Painting in the Famous Style of Klimt” – ABQ Collective
March 2020 “Metaphors in March: Exploring the work of Irish artist Gerard Dillon”- Mirhaven Community Center, Palmilla Senior Living
April 2020 “Van Gogh to Go: Paint Your Own Van Gogh Workshop”-Mirhaven Community Center, ABQ Collective, Palmilla Senior Living, Bear Canyon Estates
You can learn more about me and see more of my work at my website or on Instagram at sarahemccordart or find me on Facebook at Sarah McCord
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