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Swamp Songs

2023

Artist Statement: For this piece, I wanted to honor our land and the natural music of the swamp, the birds, frogs, and the winds. This also acts as a reminder to care for and respect our disappearing landscape.

Public Location

City Park

About the Artist

  • Sara Hardin

    Sara Hardin

    New Orleans-based visual artist and art educator, Sara Hardin creates paintings that explore the connection between place and memory. ara graduated from the University of Louisiana in 2016 with her degree in Arts Education. From here, she began teaching visual arts at the secondary level. From 2019 to 2020, Sara took part in several group exhibitions and was a member of the Basin Arts Artist Collective in Lafayette, Louisiana. In 2020, she presented at the National Art Educators Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and in 2021 was awarded a fully-funded artist residency in VanCleave, Mississippi. She is currently pursuing her Master’s in Fine Arts, with a concentration in painting, at the University of New Orleans, where she was conferred numerous Graduate Assistantship Awards. Simultaneously, Sara continues to work as an Art Educator in the Greater New Orleans Area, where her students remain a tremendous source of inspiration and motivation in her personal studio practice.

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