Sarah Tortora is a visual artist based in New Haven County, CT, whose work explores archetypal objects and forms of display through large-scale sculpture and digital photography. She received an M.F.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in 2013, and while in attendance, served as a lecturer of contemporary art at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia. Currently, Sarah is serving as an adjunct professor of sculpture at Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven.
Discipline:
Visual Art – sculpture
Sarah Tortora
Discipline:
Visual Art – sculpture
Region: CONNECTICUT
MacDowell Fellowships: 2014
More:
www.sarahtortora.com
The Transplantable
Studios
Heinz
Sarah Tortora worked in the Heinz studio.
The icehouse, built of fieldstone in 1914–1915, was a practical part of Marian MacDowell’s plan for a self-sufficient farm. Winter ice cut from a nearby pond was stored here for summer use on the property. Idle since 1940, it was a handsome but outdated farm building. In 1995, Mrs. Drue Heinz, a vice chairman…