The mission of Capitol Region Watershed District (CRWD) is to protect, manage and improve the water resources of the District. Through the Watershed Artist in Residence Program, CRWD integrates art and artists into our projects and programs to help us achieve our mission by creating connections between water resource managers, engineers, community partners and residents, resulting in more clean water projects and actions. This interdisciplinary and socially engaged art approach impacts how we think about problems and create solutions.
The Watershed Artist in Residence (AiR) helps shape CRWD’s projects and programs by providing artistic and creative perspectives as part of an interdisciplinary team, facilitating Art + Water community workshops at CRWD’s Watershed Learning Center in collaboration with other local artists and mentoring an Early Career Artist.
Watershed Artist in Residence: Sarah Peters
Sarah Peters is CRWD’s Watershed Artist in Residence (AiR). Sarah helps shape our projects and programs by providing artistic and creative perspectives as part of an interdisciplinary team, facilitating Art + Water community workshops at CRWD’s Watershed Learning Center in collaboration with other local artists, and mentoring an Early Career Artist.
Sarah is a visual artist, bookmaker, writer, event organizer, curator, former non-profit executive director, and novice kayaker. She created The Floating Library, a public art project with a collection of artist books displayed on a custom-built raft with bookshelves for paddlers in city lakes to access via canoe or kayak. Sarah also built and led Northern Lights.mn, a now closed local arts non-profit that produced the all-night, multidisciplinary arts festival Northern Spark. You can learn more about Sarah in the link below.