Sarah Slavick received her BA in Studio Art from Wesleyan University and an MFA from Pratt Institute. Currently a professor at Lesley Univeristy’s College of Art and Design, Slavick received a Massachusetts Cultural Council grant in Painting in 2006 , as well as grants from the Artist Resource Trust Fund, the Blanche Colman Foundation, and residency fellowships at the Millay Colony, the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, the Kunstnarhuset Messen in Norway, the Baer Art Center in Iceland, CAMAC in France. Her work has been exhibited locally, nationnally and internationally in among others-Sarah Slavick/Stephen Lloyd at Reynolds Fine Arts in New Haven, Natural Acts at the Massachusetts Convention Center, in Big Bang! Abstract Painting for the 21st Century at the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, at Miller Block Gallery in Boston and Giola Gallery in Chicago. Slavick has lectured about her work at Bowdoin College, the University of the Arts, the San Francisco Art Institute, the Studio Arts Center International in Florence, and the Maryland Institute of Art, among others. A member of a large family, she has five siblings, three of whom are also professional artists. Family Tree, an exhibition of her and her three artist-sisters' work will open at the Wairarapa Museum of Art and History in New Zealand December 2020.