Email

sara.inacio318@gmail.com

printmaker and teaching artist

Sai (Sara) Inácio is a Brazilian artist and educator based in Providence, RI. They hold an MFA in Printmaking from Rhode Island School of Design (‘24) and a BFA in Printmaking and Public Engagement from Maine College of Art (‘17). They have participated in exhibitions, collaborations, and curatorial projects across New England, and attended artist residencies at Queer Archive Work (Providence, RI), Art Farm (Marquette, NE), and Green Olive Arts (Tetouan, Morocco). Their work has been supported by the RISD Graduate Commons Grant, The Ocean Memory Grant, and the Interlace Fund. Sai worked as Education Manager at AS220 in 2021, and is now a professor teaching printmaking, foundations, and book arts across UMass Amherst, Community College of Rhode Island, and Brown University. In addition to this work, Sai founded a printmaking studio at Outsider Collective in Pawtucket, RI, where they teach workshops and collaborate with other artists. As a queer person who immigrated to the U.S. at a young age, Sai is drawn to make and think with ecosystems and communities that flourish in spite of human-built environments and societal structures that push against their existence. Through many forms of printmaking, book arts and installations, their interdisciplinary practice explores complex coexistences, seeks a rejection of the here and now, and hopes to imagine another world.

Artist CV

  • 2024 - Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Providence, RI Master of Fine Arts in Printmaking

    Graduate Assistantship: Microscopy Technician at The Edna W. Lawrence Nature Lab
    Research Focus: queer ecology, multi-species relationships, making with discard and natural materials, socially engaged art.

    2017 - Maine College of Art (MECA), Portland, ME Bachelor of Fine Arts in Printmaking

    Minor: Public Engagement

  • ACADEMIC TEACHING EXPERIENCE


    2026 Brown University, Providence, RI

    Adjunct Lecturer

    • VISA 1250: Art of the Book

    2025 University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA

    Contracted Faculty

    • ART241: Intaglio Printmaking

    2025 Community College of Rhode Island, Warwick, RI

    Contracted Faculty

    • ARTS 1010: Drawing 1

    • ARTS-1020-301: Color

    2025 Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI

    Contracted Faculty

    • VARTS 101: Foundations of Drawing

    2022 – 24 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

    Instructor of Record

    • PRINT 2710: Printing Discard and the Natural – A self-designed course for graduate and undergraduate students focused on making prints out of found matrices using various techniques including collagraph, monotype, frottage and etching, as well as research and theory relating to relationships between nature and culture, discard and the natural.

    Teaching Assistant

    • Introduction to Lithography

    • Introduction to Letterpress

    • Print as Installation

    1. Maine College of Art, Portland, ME 

    Teaching Assistant

    • Intro to Intaglio Printmaking


    OTHER TEACHING EXPERIENCE


    2025 Haystack Mountain School, Deer Isle, ME   

    Teaching Artist

    • Printing Discard and the Natural 

    2019 – 21 AS220 Community Studio (formerly Industries), Providence, RI   

    Teaching Artist

    • Introduction to Intaglio

    • Introduction to Relief Printing 

    2019 Shoe Town Art Center, Haverhill, MA 

    Teaching Artist

  • 2024-present Outsider Collective, Pawtucket, RI - Instructor and Printmaking Lead

    2024-present Anyhow Studio, Providence, RI - Ceramic Studio Monitor

    2024 Edna Lawrence Nature Lab at  Rhode Island School of Design - Imaging Lab Assistant

    2022-23 - Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI - Graduate Studio Technician

    2020-21 - AS220 Industries, Providence, RI - Education Manager

    2020 - Resources for Human Development, Cranston, RI - Direct Support Professional

    2019 - Union Press, Somerville, MA - Assistant Printer

    2017-18 - Erin Flett Studio, Westbrook, ME - Silkscreen Production Printer

    2017-18 - PhoPa Gallery, Portland, ME - Gallery Assistant

    2015-17 - Maine College of Art, Portland, ME - Printmaking Technician

    2016 - Maine College of Art, Portland, ME - Public Engagement Fellow

    2016 - Braddock Tiles, Braddock, PA - Print and Ceramics Studio and Public Engagement Intern

    2015 - Pickwick Independent Press, Portland, ME - Printmaking Studio Intern

  • 2026 Monson Art, Monson, ME - Artist in Residence

    2020 - Queer Archive Work, Providence, RI - Local Artist in Residence

    2020 - AS220 Industries, Providence, RI - Drink & Ink Artist in Residence

    2018 - Art Farm, Marquette, NE - Artist in Residence

    2018 - Green Olive Arts, Tetouan, Morocco - International Artist in Residence

  • 2025 - Something Wicked - East Manning Projects, Providence, RI

    2025 - Faculty Exhibition - Community College of Rhode Island, Warwick, RI

    2025 - Between Material and Being: What Persists, What Emerges - Twelve Gates Arts, Philadelphia, PA

    2024 - Buy Art Show - Rhode Island Convention Center, Providence, RI

    2024 - RISD Graduate Thesis Exhibition - RI Convention Center, Providence, RI

    2023 - RISD Graduate Printmaking Biennial -Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, RI

    2023 - Demystifying Process - Waterfire Arts Center, Providence, RI

    2022 - Providence Prints - Providence College Galleries, Providence, RI

    2021 - Corner where the Dunkin’ Donuts used to be - Sprout Coworking Gallery, Providence, RI

    2021 - A Seat at the Table - AS220 Resident Gallery, Providence, RI

    2020 - State of Urgency - Cohen Gallery at Brown University, Providence, RI

    2020 - Print Like You Give a Damn -AS220 Project Space, Providence, RI

    2020 - Art of Protest - Jamestown Art Center, Jamestown, RI

    2020 - Animal Kingdom - Outsider Collective, Pawtucket, RI

    2020 - January Show - Public Gallery and Shop, Providence, RI

    2019 - Scary Door - House Show, Providence, RI

    2018 - Home: Reflections on Place - Portland Public library, Portland, ME

    2018 - Give a Sh*t Show - Hope and Feathers, Amherst, MA

    2017 - Chill Print Trade Exhibition - Zea Mays Printmaking, Florence, MA

    2017 - MECA Printmaking Community Exhibition - Abilene, Portland, ME

    2017 - BFA Thesis Exhibition - Maine College of Art, Portland, ME

    2017 - Gathering Connections - Artists at Work Gallery at Maine College of Art, Portland, ME

    2017 - Collective Actions II - Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, ME

    2016 - Journeys: Translations of Travel & Transience - Artist at Work, Portland, ME

    2016 - Maine Emerging Artists - Frank Brockman Gallery, Brunswick, ME

    2016 - Collective Actions - Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, ME

    2016 - Half & Half - Portland, ME and Xi’an, China

    2015/16 - Merit Exhibition - Maine College of Art, Portland, ME

    2015/16 - BFA Show - Maine College of Art, Portland, ME

    2015 - New York International Miniature Print Exhibit - Manhattan Graphics Center, New York, NY

  • 2024 - Interlace Grant Fund

    2024 - RISD Employee of the Year, Technology and Innovation category

    2023 - Somerson Sustainability Innovation Fund

    2023 - Ocean Memory Project: Pollution, Forgetting & Loss Grant

    2023 - RISD Graduate Commons Grant

    2022 - RISD Graduate Fellowship

    2017 - MECA Printmaking Department Award

    2016 - MECA Professional Development Grant

    2013-17 MECA Presidential Scholarship

    2013-17 Hildreth Family Endowed Scholarship

  • 2025 “On the Cover” - The Environment and the Future, Motif Magazine

    2024 “Unruly and Unresolved: a shared, precarious survival” - RISD Grad Show 2024

    2024 “Queerness and Multi Species Kinship” - the ee: number five

    2020 - “Print Like You Give a Damn Press Proves Protest Posters’ Power” The People’s Pen, Motif RI

    2020 - “Urgency Reader 2: Mutual Aid Publishing During Crisis” -Queer Archive Work

    2020 - “10 Emerging New England Artists” Art New England Magazine March/April 2020 Issue

    2017 - "Public Engagement: Gathering Connections" - MECA Magazine Summer 2017, Pages 8-9

    2017 - "MECAmorphosis" - Maine Home and Design, May 2017

    2016 - "Public Engagement Fellows" - MECA Public Engagement, meca.edu

    2015 - "Sara Inacio '17 Exhibiting in Miniature Print" - MECA News, November 18, 2015