Andrea Sauer
ANDREA SAUER
Andrea Sauer is a professional artist. Sauer has taken her twenty years of teaching and her understanding of trauma to create a class that focuses on using painting as a meditative practice. She explores ways that indigenous cultures use intentional creativity to gain insight and heal wounds. She offers retreats, workshops, school art residencies and classes.
ANDREA SAUER
Artist Facilitator Art Educator Specializing in Trauma Collaborative Community Artist
www.andreasauer.net 410-627-2322 sauerandrea122@gmail.com
Summary-
I am an artist who inspires, teaches, and facilitates individuals, organizations, schools, and communities to create art as a valuable way to express their thoughts, ideas, and visions. My specialty has been combining my understanding of how trauma affects the brain and teaching people mindfulness tools to calm the nervous system and feel regulated. Then working with these individuals to incorporate these into a creative practice. I have developed a curriculum that I have been using at mental health facilities based on “medicine painting.” Utilizing a practice used by indigenous cultures all over the world, this way of painting leads to personal insights on the meaning we make about things that have happened into our lives (the stories we tell ourselves) and to create healing of old wounds.
Education-
Master of Art Education
Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD 1994
Bachelor of Fine Arts
Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD 1993
State of California English Credential K-12
State of Maryland Teaching Credential Art K-12
Teaching-
Currently works with Social Services in Talbot County to facilitate intentional art experiences for sexually abused teens to help metabolize their experiences.
Currently teach medicine painting classes both teens and adults at The Center For Trauma, Stress, and Anxiety in Bel Air, MD. (insurance billable with a co-facilitator)
Run medicine painting retreats with grants through HCCAB for mid-twenties women with trauma on Eastern Shore (next one 11/11/2022)
Currently working at Frederick Douglass High School, Baltimore City to teach “active listening” and how to self -regulate as well as hold space for others. These concepts are being shown visually in a 240 foot mural and mosaic that I am working with two other artists and large groups of students to create.
Fallston High School, Harford County Public Schools 2012-2020
Reservoir High School, Howard County Public Schools 2002-2004
Rancho Santa Margarita Intermediate School R.S.M, California 1999-2002
Thunder Hill Elementary School, Howard County Public Schools 1994-1999
Art Exhibits
Perseverance Exhibit, June 2020, HorseSpirit Art Gallery Savage, MD.
Resurgence Exhibit, April 2020 HorseSpirit Art Gallery Savage, MD.
Grand Opening Show, November 2018 HorseSpirit Art Gallery Savage, MD.
Realism and Abstraction: Two Generations of Art, October 2019, HorseSpirit Art Gallery
Educators in Harford County Show, June 2019
LED Baltimore Featured Artist, June 2018
Andrea Sauer and Stephanie Boyer, HorseSpirit Art Gallery, Ellicott City, MD. May 2016
Andrea Sauer and Stephanie Boyer, HorseSpirit Art Gallery, Ellicott City, MD. April 2014
FairHaven Gallery Show, Sykesville, MD. September, 2008
Hoffberger Art Gallery, Baltimore, MD. December, 2006
ArtMaryland, November 2006
Pictures At An Exhibition, November, 2006 (Honorable Mention) (Juror’s Choice)
Slayton House Gallery, One Person Show, Columbia, MD. April 2006-May 2006
Philadelphia International Open, Ursinus College, PA. November 2005
Patuxent Art League, Laurel, MD. November, 2005
Torpedo Factory, Alexandria, VA September, 2005 (First Place Watercolor)
Rehoboth Art League, Rehoboth, DE. August 2005
Georgetown International Show, Georgetown, D.C. July 2005
Quiet Waters Gallery, Annapolis, MD June 2005 (First Place Watercolor)
Gaithersburg Arts Barn, Gaithersburg, MD. April 2005 (Second Place Watercolor)
River Road Gallery, Potomac, MD. February 2005
Three Arts Club, Towson, MD. February 2005
Laurel Arts Guild Show, Laurel, MD. February 2005
Hoffberger Art Gallery, Baltimore, MD. December 2004
Montpelier Art Gallery, Laurel, MD. December 2004
Quiet Waters Gallery, Annapolis, MD. September 2004
Art Maryland, Ellicott City, MD. August 2004
Awards
Art in Embassies Show (one of eight artists featured with Andy Warhol and Wolf Kahn)
Top 12 Emerging Artist in U.S. – Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Maryland Institute, College of Art Graduate Award 1994
Liquitex Excellence in Art University Award 1994
Maryland State Scholarship Award 1992
Maryland Federation of Women’s Clubs Arts Award 1989 (Three First Place Awards)
Baltimore Area Cooperating Teachers Association, 2003
Galleries
HorseSpirit Art Gallery, Savage,MD and Ellicott City, MD
Artists Emporium, Havre De Grace, MD
Gallery 1683, Annapolis, MD
Gallery RoCa, Havre De Grace, MD
Iland Art Gallery, Fenwick Island, MD
William Ris Gallery, Stone Harbor, NJ
Art and Artisan Gallery, Ellicott City, MD
Public Collection
U.S. State Department- Tajikistan Embassy 2007-2010
References and Photos Available Upon Request
Interests
Running retreats, facilitating art experiences that help people process life events, educating people on how to use movement, art, and nature to transmute pain and trauma
