Sarah J Farahat

Sarah Farahat is a transdisciplinary Egyptian American* cultural worker, abolitionist, educator and Aunti dreaming of a more collective future for all beings. She holds a B.A. in Psychology from Occidental College, a B.F.A. in Intermedia Arts from PNCA and an M.F.A. from California College of the Arts.  She trained in auricular acupuncture at the historic Lincoln Recovery Center in the Bronx and and on the coattails of the Arab "spring" she participated in Beirut's Homeworkspace program. She is a cofounder of the SWANA Rose Culture and Community Center and a member of the Justseeds Artists' Cooperative.

For the past eighteen years Farahat has explored the embodied relationships to the socio-political landscape in the US and abroad-intervening with works exploring grief, connection, assimilation, storytelling and engagement. Supporting grassroots movements for justice and liberation informs her work. She finds joy in reading speculative fiction, talking with plants, cooking, and dj-ing. Her work lives in protests, archives, public and digital spaces and is in the permanent collections of the Arab American National Museum, the JustSeeds Collective, the Charles Voorhies Library, The Palestine Poster Project and The Center for the Study of Political Graphics.  She is featured in publications including Art Forum, The Oregonian, L'Orient Le Jour, & The Daily Star. As a nomadic child of diaspora, Farahat plants portals through taste, smell, and sound while continually attempting to live in reciprocity with the land wherever she creates home.

*she grapples with an appropriate way to name her location amidst the ongoing legacies of harm to land and people by colonialist projects