• Kid Stuff
    Halt Gallery
    Pheonix, AZ
    408 E Roosevelt St.
    February 20 - March 14, 2015

    Receptions: February 2, 6-10pm and March 6, 6-10pm

    www.haltgallery.com/exhibitions/#/new-p…

  • Class Opportunity - Printed Books: Exploring Spirituality in Art

    Frist Center for the Visual Arts
    Oct 4 - Nov 8
    Saturdays, 1:00–4:00 p.m.
    $100 members/$120 non-members
    Registration required; call 615.744.3355 before Friday, September 26

    I will give a six-day workshop exploring the theme of spirituality in art while exploring the works in Frist Center exhibitions Kandinsky: A Retrospective and Sanctity Pictured: The Art of the Dominican and Franciscan Orders in Renaissance Italy. Participants will draw inspiration from art in each exhibition to create their own original linoleum relief prints and bind them all in a hand-bound book. Participants age 18 and over and all levels of artistry welcome.

  • Class Opportunity: Ten Books in Two Days
    I'll be teaching this bookmaking workshop in June. Sign up here!

    Watkins College of Art & Design, Community Education Program
    June 28 & 29 (Saturday & Sunday)
    10:00am to 4:00pm

    This crash-course in bookmaking will teach necessary skills to make ten handmade books. A few of the book forms covered will be single-sheet, accordion, pamphlet-stitch, and interactive books called flexagons. Students will leave the course with their own personal mini library of handmade books and the skills needed to continue making more at home. No previous knowledge is necessary to excel in this course. All materials are provided.

  • Structure
    Printmaking Center of New Jersey
    Branchburg, NJ
    April 26 - June 14, 2014

    Opening Reception: Saturday, April 26th, 1-4pm

    Printmaking Center of New Jersey

  • Sarazen Haile: Featured Objects
    Bellevue Arts Museum
    Bellevue, WA
    October 2013 - May 2014

    Museum Hours
    Tuesday - Sunday: 11am - 6pm
    Free First Friday: 11am - 8pm

    Bellevue Arts Museum: Featured Objects

  • 26th Annual McNeese National Works on Paper Exhibition
    McNeese State University
    Abercrombie Gallery at the Sherman Fine Arts Center
    Lake Charles, LA
    March 21 - May 9, 2013

    Opening Reception: Thursday, March 21 6-8pm.

    McNeese State University Abercrombie Gallery

  • Paperwork: In, On and Of Paper
    Foundry Art Centre
    St. Charles, MO
    February 8 - March 22, 2013

    Opening Reception: February 8, 6-8pm.

    Foundry Art Centre, Paperwork: In, On and Of Paper

  • Class Opportunity: Clamshell Box Workshop
    I'll be teaching this clamshell box workshop in March. It is a bit challenging, but also a lot of fun! Sign up here!

    Watkins College of Art & Design, Community Education Program
    March 9 & 10 (Saturday & Sunday)
    10:00am to 4:00pm

    During this two-day workshop students will learn to create a clamshell box, also known as a drop spine box. These boxes are often used as portfolios for photographs or prints, homes for keepsakes and additions to book projects. Some experience with book arts or three-dimensional art-making methods is recommended. All tools and supplies included in materials fee.

  • 46th Annual Drawing & Small Sculpture Show
    Juried Show at Del Mar College.

    Del Mar College
    101 Baldwin Blvd.
    Corpus Christi, TX

    This year’s 46th show runs February 17, 2012 opening reception 6-8 p.m.,
    and closes May 4, 2012. Accepted artwork is displayed in the distinctive
    Joseph A. Cain Memorial Gallery.

    46th Annual Drawing & Small Sculpture Show

  • Juror's Choice Award: Maryland Federation of Art
    Juror: Georgia Deal, Professor and Printmaking Department Chair, at Corcoran College of Art + Design.

    Small works, no larger than 11 inches on any side, will be on display at Maryland Federation of Art's 9th Annual Small Wonders exhibition. Practically every medium, from painting to ceramic sculpture to digital photography, encompassing both two and three dimensional forms, as well as experimental and mixed media works are represented in the exhibition. Artwork will be on view at MFA’s Circle Gallery, 18 State Circle, Annapolis, Maryland from December 1 through December 28, 2011.

    The juror, Georgia Deal, Professor and Printmaking Department Chair, at Corcoran College of Art + Design, selected the all media exhibition from entries submitted throughout the United States and Canada. In her juror statement, she writes, "When viewing entries for the Small Wonders exhibition this year, I was impressed with the wide range of media submitted as well as the overall high quality of the artworks." She added, "Often I found myself checking the dimensions, as some works seemed to defy their stated size."

    Maryland Federation of Art

  • Best In Show: 30 Small Works at Gallery Up
    It’s official! Winner of the 4th Annual 30 Small Works $1,000 Best of Show is Chairs 1, by Sarazen Haile, from Illinois . We agree with Barbara, these mini paper cut chairs are to die for and gives new meaning to the concept of size. Congrats, Sarazen! As well as winning big money, Sarazen is also a recipient of a Harriet M. Goode Purchase Award.

    Best in Show: Gallery Up

  • 2011 SAIC MFA Fellowship Recipient
    Jurors:
    Naomi Beckwith, Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
    Malik Gaines, Curator, LACMA, Los Angeles
    Bartholomew Ryan, Assistant Curator, Walker Art Center

    SAIC Fellowship Profile

  • PRINTERESTING blog post
    "Academia is ablaze with graduation frenzy, and MFA openings abound in Chicago this time of year. I enjoyed seeing works-in-print at the School of the Art Institute’s MFA opening a few weeks ago, and I thought I’d share photographs from this year’s talented crop of Printmedia MFA graduates, who include Matthew Cummings, Sarazen Elyse Haile, Alexa Karabin, Jae Young Kim, Sterling Lawrence, Christina McClelland, Jason Schroeder, and Alexander Valentine."

    Chicago: SAIC’s Printmedia MFA graduates

  • 30 Small Works, Rock Hill, SC
    June 15 - July 29, 2011
    Reception - June 23, 6 - 8pm

    201 East Main Street, 2nd Floor, Gettys Art Center
    Rock Hill, SC 29730

    GalleryUp

  • PERFORATE: Solo show at Athens Area Arts Center
    320 N. White St, Athens, TN

    Opening Reception: June 3rd, 5:00-7:00 pm

    Athens Area Arts Center

  • 2011 SAIC SPRING GRADUATE EXHIBITION
    Sullivan Galleries, April 30–May 20
    Reception: Friday, April 29, 8:00–10:00 p.m.

    A must-see presentation of the next generation of artists and designers, this exhibition features work by more than 130 students—SAIC’s largest graduating class to date. New this year, guest curators Juan William Chávez, Jessica Cochran, Bryce Dwyer, and Gregory Harris transform the galleries into a series of shows-within-a-show. These thematic sections unfold throughout the space in a sequence of visual encounters and unconventional experiences.

    SAIC Calendar

  • National juried exhibit ‘Ephemera’ opens Monday at Northwest
    MARYVILLE, Mo. - Artworks of varied media make up the national juried exhibit, "Ephemera," opening Monday, Feb. 21, 2011 in Northwest Missouri State University's Olive DeLuce Fine Arts Building.

    Olive DeLuce Gallery

  • The Sprawl of Printmaking: The Third Dimension, Chicago Art Magazine
    Sarazen Haile explores an idea inherent to relief printing, that a sculpture must be made to produce a flat image. Haile uses woodcut to make printed patterns, which can be cut out and assembled into miniature architectural objects...

    See Article Here

  • Emory & Henry student uses art to explore advertising, image
    Steven Woodward. “Consumed,” The Bristol Herald Courier, April 14, 2008,
    B3 & B6.

    See Article Here