In this artist talk, Sarah Perkins will share insights into her distinguished career. Sarah is best known for her hand formed and enameled metal vessels and containers. She has shown her work in the USA, India, Canada, Europe, Korea and Taiwan, ROC, participating in over 300 competitive and invitational exhibitions. Her work has been featured in the periodicals: Metalsmith, Ornament, Glass on Metal, and Craft Arts International and is published in a number of books including The Art of Enameling, The Penland Book of Jewelry, and Contemporary Enameling, Art and Techniques. She was the juror for the Lark Publications book 500 Enameled Objects. Her work is in the permanent collections of a number of institutions including the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Long Beach Art Museum, the Philadelphia Art Museum, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, England.

Sarah Perkins received her BA in Art and German at San Diego State University and her MFA in metals at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. She is Professor Emerita at Missouri State University where she taught from 1994 to 2017. She is a past member of the Board of Trustees of The Enamelist Society and currently serves on the Board of Directors at the Metal Museum.

Sarah was the recipient of a Mid-America Arts Alliance/National Endowment for the Arts regional award. She has been a Senior Artist in Residence at the Oregon College of Art and Craft and an Artist in Residence at the Tainan National University of the Arts in Taiwan, ROC, and at Sanskriti Foundation in New Delhi, India. She was the 2019 Master Metalsmith at the Metal Museum in Memphis, TN. She has taught numerous workshops on her enameling techniques at universities, craft centers and guilds both in the USA and abroad.