Sara Peters, Artist + Art Therapist
I am a multimedia artist and art therapist in San Antonio, Texas. A life-as-art philosophy crucially integrates my work as an artist and clinician within the form of social practice and visual art.
My work embodies a purposeful experience with the making and viewing of art as agent of transformation in the personal and transpersonal realm. This approach occupies a reflective and confessional intersection of art, storytelling, and healing while its process becomes a vehicle for the exchange of information and experience. Works thematically and materially explore objects and images that speak to land, the body, ecofeminism, identity, and spirituality.
As a seventh generation South Texan, my family's vocational legacy of farming and ranching inform an experiential knowledge of ingenuity and adaptability with materials and humanity's interdependence with the natural world.
Using both mixed media approaches and integrative sculpture processes I tell stories of, about, and from the land, creating works to transform the ordinary to the sacred; illuminating messages of hope and restoration found written throughout nature.
When I'm not in creating art, you can find me gardening the yard, looking for the perfect wallpaper for my home's desk nook, out and about with my beloved husband, Brian and our two dogs, Hank & Lacy.
License, Credentials, Education
BFA, Studio Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
Present
Licensed Professional Counselor, TX State Board of Examiners of Professional Counselors. Licensed since 2018
Present
Board-Certified Art Therapist #17-100, The Art Therapy Credentials Board. Certified since 2019
2013
MA, Art Therapy, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
2008
Awards, Grants, Fellowships
2012
2011
2010
Hannah Kwiatkowska Award for Excellence in Art Therapy Practice & Research
Alexandria Partnership Full Tuition Fellowship, George Washington University, Alexandria, VA
GWU Graduate Half Tuition Fellowship, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
2007
OxBow School of Art, Summer Glassblowing Fellowship, Saugatuck, MI
Exhibitions (Group)
2022
Faith and The Maker, Old School Makerspace Gallery, San Antonio, TX
2018
South Texas Art Therapy Association, Z'Tejas Restaurant, Austin, TX
2013
Velvet Dust Illusions, The Parish, Austin, TX
2010
Art + Health, Goodwin House Alexandria, Alexandria, VA