About Sara Mast

Sara Mast received her MFA in Drawing and Painting at Queens College, NY, and her Bachelors in Art and Psychology from Cornell College, Mt. Vernon, IA (magna cum laude). Other art studies include a yearlong study abroad at Centro d’Lorenzo Medici, Florence, Italy; the University of Iowa MA program; The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME; The Art Students League, NY; and the New York Studio School, NY.

Her work includes painting (encaustic, oil, and mixed media) and interdisciplinary collaboration with a focus on artscience installation. Her work is in over thirty collections worldwide, and has been featured in solo, group, and collaborative exhibitions nationally and internationally, including Zolla-Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL; Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia, PA; Brownsville Museum of Art, Brownsville, TX; MIT’s Cambridge Science Festival, Cambridge, MA; Chabot Space and Science Center, Oakland, CA (permanent installation); the 3rd edition of DI_STANZE 2013 l’Aula Daniele Paris del Conservatorio di Musica “Licinio Refice”di Frosinone, Italy; and Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China.

Mast’s paintings have been featured in several publications that include: Launching the Imagination (McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages; 6th edition, 2018); Encaustic Art in the 21st Century (Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. 2016); Art & Science Now (Thames & Hudson, NY, 2010) and Encaustic Painting: Contemporary Expression in the Ancient Medium of Pigmented Wax (Watson-Guptill, NY, 2001). Her artscience collaboration Black (W)hole was featured on the cover (with article) of Leonardo: Art, Science and Technology (MIT Press journal, February, 2016).

Sara is a Professor of Drawing and Painting at the School of Art, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT. She is a regular presenter at the International Encaustic conference in Provincetown, MA. She teaches private workshops in Bozeman, MT, in the studio she co-designed and co-built in the foothills of the Bridger Mountains, where she lives and works.