SARAH RENÉE OŹLAŃSKI
sarah.ozlanski@maine.edu |
EDUCATION
2021-5 University of Maine, Orono, ME
Expected Graduation: May, 2025
B.F.A Studio Art - Painting & English - Creative Writing
Minor - Art History
G.P.A 4.0
RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE
2024-5 University of Maine Writing Center, Orono, ME; Intern and Peer Tutor
2024-5 University of Maine Wyeth Center, Orono ME; Work-study Print Studio
2023-4 Zillman Art Museum, Bangor, ME; Curatorial Intern
MEMBERSHIPS AND AFFILIATIONS
Phi Beta Kappa
Sigma Tau Delta Honors Society for English
Philadelphia Ship Preservation Guild, Philadelphia, PA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 CLAS Dean’s Office, University of Maine, Orono, woodcut entitled Homeport
2025 Student Art Exhibition 2024 University Maine, Lord Hall Gallery, Orono (Juror: Tingle, Waterfall Arts Center, Adult Program Director)
2024 Mutual Threads University Maine, Lord Hall Gallery, Orono
2024 Fogler Library, University of Maine, Orono, painting entitled Levi and Robert
2024 Student Art Exhibition 2024 University Maine, Lord Hall Gallery, Orono (Juror: Amy
Rahn, University of Maine Augusta, Assistant Professor of Art History and Charles Danforth Gallery Director)
2023 President’s Office, University of Maine, Orono, drawing entitled Burial at Sea: In Memory of Oswald (and who we once were)
2023 Student Art Exhibition 2023 University Maine, Lord Hall Gallery, Orono (Juror: Timothy Peterson, Executive
Director and Chief Curator, Center for Maine Contemporary Art)
2022 CLAS Dean’s Office, University of Maine, Orono, drawing entitled Swallowing the Anchor
2022 Student Art Exhibition 2022 University Maine, Lord Hall Gallery, Orono (Jurors: Susan Smith, University of
Maine, Gallery Director and Intermedia Program Director; Laurie Hicks, University of Maine, Former Director
and Emerita Professor of Art)
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2024 Frost and Bloom, Zillman Art Museum, Bangor, ME
Curated a show on the theme of winter’s transition into spring with artworks in various media from the Zillman’s permanent collection
WORKSHOPS
2024 Traditional Pisanki, Fiddleheads Artisan Supply, Belfast, ME
Taught a workshop on the traditional Polish/Ukrainian art form of pisanki
HONORS AND AWARDS
2025 Outstanding Graduating Senior of the Art Department
2025 Outstanding Graduating Senior of the English Department
2024 Presidential Scholar Award for 2023-2024 academic year
2024 Center for Undergraduate Research at the University of Maine, Summer Fellowship Award 2024 for project entitled:
“Painting the Feminine Future of Schooners and Square Rigs: How Portraiture and Genre Envisions Gender Equality in the Maritime Industry”
2024 Bangor Arts Society Scholar Award
2024 University of Maine, Lord Hall Gallery, Orono, ME Honorable Mention, Student Art Exhibition Award for sculpture entitled:
The Shipwright’s Apprentice
2024 Steve Grady First Place Prize for Creative Writing - for short fiction, Lagune Seeking
2024 Claire Coffin Grenfell ‘32 First Place Prize for Traditional Poetry - Eight Tolls on the Bell
2024 James S. Stevens Outstanding Junior Award
2023 Presidential Scholar Award for 2022-2023 academic year
2023 Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center and Echoes of Maine Humanities Foundation Fellowship Award for 2023-2024 academic year for project titled:
“The Language of my Grandmother is a Language of Resistance: How the Matrilineal Transmission of Pisanki Expresses Cultural Identity”
2023 Zillman Art Museum Curatorial Internship, University of Maine, Bangor, ME
2023 Monson Arts Summer Workshop Scholarships.
2023 Ruth Stebbins and Edmund G. Schildlknecht Art Fund Award for 2023-2024 academic year
2023 J. Meade Studio Art Award
2022 Next Generation Foundation Non-Traditional Student Scholarship for 2022-2023 and 2023-2024 academic years
2022 Senior Student Alumni Non-Traditional Student Scholarship for 2022-2023 and 2023-2024 academic years
2022 Presidential Scholar Award for 2021-2022 academic year
2022 Bangor Arts Society Scholarship for Promising First Year Art Student
2022 University of Maine, Steven’s Hall, Orono, ME, Dean’s Exhibition Award for the 2022-2023 academic year, Student Art Exhibition for work entitled:
Swallowing the Anchor
2022 University of Maine, Lord Hall Gallery, Orono, ME, Juror’s Award, Student Art Exhibition Award for work entitled:
The Creation by Berehynia during Maine’s Autumnal Equinox
2021 Outstanding Portfolio for ENG 101
2021 Helen Rodgerson Haddad Scholarship in the Arts for 2021-2022 and 2022-2023 academic years
SELECTED SERVICE
2024-5 The Cultural Affair and Distinguished Lecture Series Committee; Undergraduate Student
PRESS
2021 StoryCorps, “People Share How Climate Change is Harming Their Health” by Eleanor Vassili
SELECTED WORKSHOPS
2023 Monsons Arts, Monson, ME: Making and painting with egg tempura, casein, and watercolor taught by Ed Nadeau
SHORT COURSES TAKEN
2018 Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, FL: Oil painting class: Amber Tutwiler
2018 Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, FL: Intermediate drawing class: Michael Las Casas
2017 Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, FL: Colored pencils drawing class: Michael Las Casas
2017 Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, FL: Beginning drawing class: Michael Las Casas
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
2024 University of Maine, Orono, ME: Summer Fellow for the Center for Undergraduate Research at University of Maine:
Creative research into the representation of women and queer folks in the maritime industry depicted in American maritime art through portraiture and genre painting.
2023-4 University of Maine, Orono, ME: Fellow for the Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center:
studying the tradition of pisanki passed down matrilineally to Slavic immigrants in North America and the importance of this cultural practice for identity as well as its
symbolism of resistance against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
