Sarah Walko is an artist, director, curator and writer. She has her Master of Fine Arts degree from Savannah College of Art and Design and Bachelor of Arts from the University of Maryland. She is currently the Director of Visual and Performing Arts at Lenox Hill Neighborhood House and she has directed non-profit arts organizations for seventeen years. Her visual art exhibitions have included: Creative Climate Awards Exhibition, Between the Feast and the Ground is Where We Live Now, a solo exhibition on Governors Island, Urban Reverence at Valerie Goodman Gallery and the Voelker Orth Museum in New York, Raising the Temperature at the Queens Museum of Art, Preternatural at The Museum of Nature in Canada, Codex Dynamic Film Exhibition on the Manhattan Bridge Anchorage, Case Studies at Index Art Center in New Jersey, Baker’s Dozen: 13 Artists on Found Objects at One Black Whisker Gallery in Pennsylvania, Fair Play, group video exhibition in Miami, Florida, So That I Might Speak to You of Your Magnificence, a solo exhibition at The Teaching Gallery in New York, Rewoven, Innovation Fiber Arts Exhibition at the Queens Community College, CUNY in New York, I Embody at 310 Gallery, Marrietta College in Marrietta, Ohio and Earth Revisited, a video exhibition on the Manhattan Bridge Anchorage in New York. She was an invited artist in the inaugural The First Ten, New Hope Artist Residency Program in 2021 and selected as an inaugural participant in Art For Good: HATCHING A Better World program in 2020. She has been an artist in residence at many residency programs including Chateau Orquevaux, IPark and the Elizabeth Foundation. She has been a visiting artist at Endicott College, Hudson Valley Community College, Kansas City Art Institute, University of Missouri, Roger Williams University and Savannah College of Art and Design. She is a NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentor and a published author of fiction and nonfiction essays. She is a contributing writer in four anthologies that were published in 2022 and 2024: Sacred Promise (Women Changing the World Press), Neon Guides Me: A Monograph of Artist Anne Katrine Senstad (Praun & Guermouche), Royal Beauty (Arts by the People) and Transpecies Design (Routledge).