About Sarah
Keynotes:
Maybe you’ve seen me talk about being an artist or my artist’s books? Or you need a speaker or a visiting artist? Get in touch!
Northampton Book Fair in Massachusetts Opening Speaker; December 2022
American Printing History Association annual conference Keynote Speaker, in Austin, TX; October 2023
Sarah Horowitz lives at the base of the eastern Cascade Mountains in Leavenworth, Washington where she has her printmaking studio. She previously lived in Portland, Oregon where she was a member of Atelier Mars printmaking studio for fifteen years, and worked as a printmaking and drawing instructor at Portland State University for seven years. Horowitz creates prints, drawings, and produces hand printed and bound artist's books under her imprint Wiesedruck. Her work focuses on formal aesthetics and the natural world, with an emphasis on the ephemeral and memory.
Horowitz recently attended residencies at the Oak Spring Garden Foundation in Upperville, Virginia, at ArtBellwald in Bellwald, Switzerland, and participated in the Icicle Fund Conservation/History/Art residency in Washington State. Her work can be found in collections nationally and internationally including The Library of Congress, Stanford University, New York Public Library, Boston Athenaeum, and Yale University Bienecke Library. She produces the annual prize for the Yale University Windham-Campbell Prize for Literature.
Podcasts and videos:
Artist Talk series interview with Pat Murphy for Icicle Creek Center for the Arts.
Check out my interview with Helen Hiebert on her podcast Paper Talk.
A conversation with Joseph Gallivan for KBOO Art Focus- listen to the recording. (Scroll to the bottom to play- my segment starts about 2 minutes in.
This Oregon Art Beat video features Chris Botti, myself (at minute 10:00), and the Pete Krebs Trio. Originally aired on 10/12/12
Selected Collections list (pdf)
About Wiesedruck
Wiesedruck is the imprint of artist and printmaker Sarah Horowitz. Her books and broadsides revolve around prints by Horowitz and text, poems or other writing by select artists including Paul Celan, Kadya Molodowsky, Paul Auster, Virginia Woolf, and Edgar Allan Poe. She works with letterpress printers and binders to realize her projects.
A note on the press name:
My uncle, grandfather (Albert Schudel), and his father before him, ran a printing press in Riehen, Switzerland called 'Schudeldruck' that printed various publications including a newspaper. Wiesedruck is the name I gave my press. 'Druck' literally means press in German. The 'Wiese' is the stream that runs by the gardens and wildlife lands near my grandparent's home in Riehen on the outskirts of Basel. It rises in the Black Forest, on the Feldberg, then flows through Germany and along the border into Switzerland, where it joins the Rhine opposite the French town Saint-Louis.
Leonard Baskin's Charles Brand Press
The press, built in 1968 or 69, was purchased new from the Brand brothers. Over the years, it printed many of the etchings for Gehenna Press' books. In addition to Baskin, apprentices and artists including Peter Bogardus and Michael Kuch spent time on the press. In spite of hopes that the press would continue to be used after Baskin's passing, that did not happen, and it was preserved in the barn studio at the Baskin home in Leeds, Massachusetts. After much refurbishing by Joe Reidel, the press is back in working order. It lives in my studio in Leavenworth, Washington where I am pulling prints almost daily.
Below are photos of the press moving from the Baskin’s barn to my previous studio in nearby Peshastin, Washington.
Moving the press:
