Statement

In my recent sculptures and installations, real birds combine with mythic stories to speak to our present condition. My ongoing “Becoming a Bird” project encourages awareness of birds around us and their importance in our lives and imaginations. Acknowledging our human impulse to project onto nature, I encourage identification and empathy. My goal is to share my human-avian visions to promote contemplation of our crucial connection to birds, especially in our era of endangered species, migrations, and global climate threats.

Bio

Sarah Haviland is a Fulbright Scholar, sculptor, and installation artist whose recent work focuses on cross-cultural human-bird imagery and the environment. In her 2023 solo show “Winged Energy,” four outdoor sculptures were sited along a wetland walk at View Arts in the Adirondacks in Old Forge, New York. In 2021, her exhibition of small wire and mixed-media sculptures, “Becoming a Bird,” was presented along with accompanying stories at the Hammond Museum & Japanese Stroll Garden in North Salem, NY. In 2018-2019, she was awarded a U.S. Fulbright Fellowship for creative research in Taiwan. Sarah Haviland’s abstract-figurative sculptures and public art installations have been exhibited widely in galleries, parks, museums, healthcare, and educational settings, including commissions at the Flatiron Prow Art Space in NYC; Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton, NJ; Pratt Sculpture Park in Brooklyn; NYU Langone Medical Center; and the National Marine Museum in Taiwan.