sarina shane (Artist Profile)
sarinaa@salteatr.studio
Instagram - @_an3t
Sarina is a Chicago-based teaching artist, visual designer, and budding curator who sometimes writes and makes mixes. Her curatorial practice explores family and home through process-based art(e.g. new media, performance, and installation), printmaking, and cinema.
She uses art as a tool for community world-building and reflection, prioritizing a queer black femme perspective. Long-term interests include cooperative housing, visual communication, black cinema, and skincare.
Jams? This season, reading and resting.
Sarina enjoys meadows and has a deep yearning to adopt a Chow Chow. She is currently available for freelance digital design projects.
Education
General Assembly (Remote)
User Experience Design Immersive Bootcamp
2024
Golin NightSchool (Chicago, IL)
Public Relations(PR) Pivoter Apprenticeship
2023
2022 Digital Marketing Apprenticeship, COOP, remote (Chicago, IL)
Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art,
Spelman College (Atlanta, GA)
Area(s) of Specialization:
Mixed Media
Photography
Drawing
Installation Art
Sculpture
Awards
Wealth Our Way (W.O.W.) Grant for Chicago Quilombo
Community Desk Chicago
2025
Pre-Development Fund for Chicago Quilombo
Chicago Community Trust
2025
Individual Artist Grant
DCASE
2025
Spring Floral Workshop
Natuzzi Italia x ISDA WID
Florist/Instructor
2026
Garfield Park Farmer’s Market,
The Farmer at the Green,
Hyde Park Farmer’s Market
Florist
2025
She Safe We Safe DNC Artist Exhibition
BYP100 Chicago Chapter
Curator
2024
Circulate Free Store,
in partnership with Plant Chicago
co-organizer
2022
Maxwell Evans, "Shared-Ownership Business Projects Get $2 Million In ‘Wealth Our Way’ Grants,"
Block Club Chicago, November 25, 2025.
Tia Carol Jones, "Wealth Our Way Initiative Chooses Grantees,"
Citizen Newspaper Group, December 5, 2025.
Maxwell Evans, "Chicago Quilombo, A Live/Work Building In South Shore, Aims To Give Young Black South Siders ‘Autonomy’,"
Block Club Chicago, September 12, 2025.
Sixty Inches From Center, "Meet the 2022 Muña Cohort!"
Sixty Inches From Center, August 29, 2022.
Darryl Holliday, "Chicago Murder Victims Remembered with Student-Built Sculpture,"
DNA Info, June 21, 2013.