Artist

Liz Sargent is an artist working in Savannah, GA. She earned an MFA in Fiber at Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2002. Recent exhibitions include Entanglements at Laney Contemporary Fine Art in Savannah, GA curated by Melissa Messina and Lisa Jaye Young, Slipstream at the Gallery at Sasaki, an award-winning international design firm in Boston, and The Fugitive Strand at Youkobo Art Space in Tokyo, Japan where she completed an artist residency. Collaborative projects include DesCours, an invitational contemporary architecture and art event showcasing installations throughout the city of New Orleans, presented by the American Institute of Architects. Other exhibits of note include Hothouse: Expanding the Field of Fiber at Cranbrook, 1970-2007 at the Cranbrook Art Museum, Fray at the Textile Museum of Canada, and FiberArt International, a biennial exhibition of contemporary fiber art shown at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York. Her work was exhibited as part of Metropolis Magazine’s editor’s picks, traveling to the International Furniture Fair in New York and Neocon World’s Trade Fair in Chicago, and has been featured in FiberArts, Azure, and Selvedge. She currently teaches at Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia.