Sarah Isusi Sarah Isusi grew up in Baltimore where she began her early art training at the Baltimore High School for the Arts. Inspired by the strong art education she experienced and the influence of her dedicated teachers, she decided to pursue a dual degree in art and art education. Sarah completed a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Painting and Master’s of Art in Teaching from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 1996. She began her first teaching position at Baltimore City College High School in 1996 and dedicated eight consecutive years to building the International Baccalaureate Art and Design and AP art curriculums. Taking a strong interest in Museum education, she designed numerous partnerships and coordinated outreach programs for her students with local museums and universities. Throughout her career as an art educator, she continued to paint and develop as an artist. Sarah has had numerous exhibitions throughout the Baltimore Metropolitan area, and she has participated in summer residencies such as a five week fellowship at Skidmore College in the summer of 2000. Always interested in learning and a strong advocate of art school and the art community, Sarah went back to graduate school to work on an MFA and over the course of three and a half years, received a Master’s of Art in Painting from The University of the Arts in Philadelphia in December 2004. She has since been teaching and creating art simultaneously for the past two years at The Pennsylvania Leadership Charter School Center for Performing and Fine Arts where she heads the Fine Arts department and teaches 2D studio art at both the middle and high school levels. Sarah Isusi is a painter who’s artwork is a combination of oil painting, printmaking and collage techniques. She creates paintings that balance between abstraction and representation, displaying bright busy surfaces at play with some obscured and some recognizable images. Isusi builds up a rich and complex repertoire of images, forms and color in her work. The works are narrative, making connections from historical and cultural sources juxtaposed within a contemporary context.
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