Sarah May, M.A.

Sarah May (she/hers) is a biracial Salvadoreña artist, weaver, storyteller, and community organizer based out of Salt Lake City, Utah. She graduated from the University of Utah with her BFA in Photography & Digital Imaging and her MA in Community Leadership with an Emphasis in Art & Culture from Westminster College. Sarah has led designated spaces of healing, connection, and empowerment for BIPOC communities in Salt Lake City utilizing art, knowledge, and wisdom from BIPOC and Indigenous communities. 

Sarah has completed 4 national and international artist residencies with her most recent artist-in-residency at the Center for Photography in Woodstock, New York. Sarah is also a part of the Latinx writers and artist group Plumas Colectiva leading community events centering the QTBIPOC community in Utah. She is more recently a part of Making Waves for Great Salt Lake Artist Collaborative, a team of three artists, poets, educators, organizers, and Lake-facing humans passionate about creating intimacy and relationship with Great Salt Lake, the creatures that call the Lake their home, and our connected waterbodies.