Bio

​Sarah Stobbe is a visual artist living and working in Memphis, Tennessee. She received her BFA from the University of Memphis in 2023. Since graduating, she has signed on with Arrow Creative as their ceramic studio facilitator and continues to make and teach.

Statement

I make because I’m making it make sense. That ‘it’ takes many forms in my work including identity, mortality, and productivity, but it can ultimately be understood as existence. My work serves as a form of auto-ethnography: systematically analyzing personal experience in order to understand cultural experience. Making, for me, serves as the way of literally attempting to create understandings that are missing from myself. One could say, I currently make about making. In choosing to be an artist as an occupation, I must literally and metaphorically make a living, make a life, further complicating my relationship between work and myself.