Sarah Kavage
Lead Artist, Water Spirit
Born and raised back-to-the-land style in rural Ohio in the 70s, Sarah Kavage is a Seattle-based visual artist and cultural organizer interested in location, ephemerality, and ecology. She interprets sites through a lens of social and environmental justice, using large-scale creative gestures to raise awareness and heal places and people in the process. Kavage has spent over 15 years using culture to raise the visibility of the Duwamish River, which runs through the Seattle area and has been damaged and disfigured by a century of engineering and pollution. In 2006, she, Nicole Kistler, and the Environmental Coalition of South Seattle (ECOSS) created the Living Barge Project to build a dialogue around the river’s history and future. In 2015, they produced Duwamish Revealed, a site-specific exhibition and performance series that commissioned over 40 artworks and 3 large community events along and about the Duwamish. She is currently serving as Duwamish River Artist in Residence for the City of Tukwila, creating a series of ephemeral ecological artworks as part of a stream daylighting project, bringing buried waterways back to life by physically uncovering and restoring them. Kavage has a Masters’ Degree in Urban Planning from the University of Washington and was selected in 2015 by Seattle Magazine as one of Seattle’s Most Influential People.
Instagram: @kavasar
