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© 2008 Sarah Muehlbauer, Rustle, still from video of performance wearing garment (3 minutes, 59 seconds) Sarah Muehlbauer began creating art as a child. However, art fell to the sidelines until she entered the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where it became her focus. Initially she pursued painting as a way to learn the visual arts language, but eventually gravitated toward the textile techniques she had learned from her mother as a child growing up in Westbend, Wisconsin. After Muehlbauer was diagnosed with severe Crohn's disease, she says art kept her mind occupied and gave her something to work toward. “Art filled a constant need to experience something positive and creative to contrast events in my life.” With works such as Rustle, the artist plays with the sculptural capacity of garments based on an interest in the boundaries created between the body and the environment in which it is worn: “I find myself in a dress made of wax paper and must establish my relationship to it through ritualistic movement, touch, and sound.” Muehlbauer received a BFA from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and will enter the MFA program in fiber art at Temple University's Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia. |
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