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BFA Pratt Institute, 1968
Peace Corps Brazil, SA 1965-1967
Voter Antoinette Perry Awards, 1998-2003
Scenic sculptor, United Scenic Artists Local 829, 1985-2003
Carving for the Metropolitan Opera House, new productions, 12 years
Pension and Welfare Trustee, United Scenic Artist Local 829, 1994-2001
NMPCA Board, 2015-2024, eNews Editor 2020-24

SELECT EXHIBITIONS and EVENTS
2024 Taos Ceramics Center, outdoor work at the entry of gallery, Taos, NM
2024 Abiquiu Inn Sculpture Garden, 5/24 – 5/25 five installations, Abiquiu, NM
2024 25th San Angelo Ceramic Competition, 4/23/24 – 6/23/24, San Angelo, TX
2023 “Inhabited Earth” annual COC exhibition, juror, Ho’zho’ Gallery, ABQ, NM
2023 “From the Mind’s Eye over Time”, solo show, North Fouth Art Center, ABQ, NM
2022 “Up Lifted” NMPCA annual COC member show, Best in Show, TCC
2022 “emergence” Taos Ceramics Center, large outdoor sculpture in the interior.
2021 “Coming Together” NMPCA merit award, Abiquiu Inn, Abiquiu, NM
2020 Sculpture Evergreen 21, Evergreen, CO; Sternberg prize for Excellence
2020 Abiquiu Inn Sculpture Walk, on the grounds, Abiquiu, NM
2019 Mudwasp Sculpture Site, a viewed from your vehicle, large clay
outdoor sculpture, exhibits changed intermittently, Cuba, NM
2019 From the Ground Up, “Supine Olla”, Las Cruces Museum of Art, NM
2019 Abiquiu Inn Sculpture Walk, four sculptures on the grounds, Abiquiu, NM
2019 Art Around Town, “Duo” two columns downtown Carbondale, CO
2018 Abiquiu Inn Sculpture Garden, three sculptures on the grounds, Abiquiu, NM
2018 “Compeers” Two column installation courtyard Total Arts Gallery, Taos, NM
2017 “Ascension”, Sculpture on the Square, Ft. Collins, CO
2017 “Earth Tongues” Open Space Visitor’s Center, Albuquerque, NM
2017 NMPCA in the Sunport Tunnel, invitational, Albuquerque, NM
2008 Mudwasp Sculpture Site, viewed from your vehicle, large clay sculpture, Cuba, NM
2015 “From the Mind’s Eye” terra cotta figural works, Seedboat Gallery, Silver City, NM
2015 “Azul” fired clay unique, grounds, Murray Ryan Visitors Center, Silver City, NM, 2015 “Romancing the Monomorphic Form” lecture given at CNM, Albuquerque, NM, Oct.
2014 “Monomorphic Form” solo exhibition, Ryan Visitors Center, Silver City, NM
2014 “Dauphin”, fired clay unique, grounds, Murray Ryan Visitors Center, Silver City, NM
2012 “Surprising Similitude” two person exhibition, Las Cruces Museum of Art, June- July
2011 Sculpture in the Sculpture Garden, Preston Contemporary Art Center, Mesilla, NM
2011 Sculpture on the Grounds, Bear Mountain Lodge, Silver City, NM 2011-2014
2010 Clay Sculpture “Into the Void” Matrix Fine Art, Nov., Albuquerque, NM
2009 “Emanations of a Fettered Mind” Robert Nichol’s Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2009 “From the Ground Up XXIV”, first place award, Las Cruces Museum of Art, Sept,
Las Cruces, NM
2009 “Terra Cotta Sculpture by Sara D’Alessandro, March, Matrix Fine Art, Abq., NM
2007 “Organic Forms in Terra Cotta” Matrix Fine Art, April, Albuquerque, NM
2003 Skokie Northshore Sculpture Park, cont. installation of six element “Swamp Cabbage
Colonnade”, 1998 - 2004, Skokie, IL
2002 “Tableaux Vivant”, solo exhibition, West Chester University, West Chester, PA
2000 “Sculpture by Sara Lee D’Alessandro and Drawings by Joyce Kubat”, Jamie Welker
Curator, Heckscher Museum of Art, Rosyln, NY
1999 “Mud Like a Blessing: Elemental Clay Sculpture” five artist invitational, Hunterdon
Museum of Art, 11/14 - 1/15/00, Clinton, NJ
1998 ”Long Island Artists: Focus on Materials”, invitational, University Art Gallery, Staller
Center for the Arts, SUNY at Stony Brook, June - July, Stony Brook, NY
1997 “Surface and Shadow: Abstraction Revisited”, Catherine Valenza curator,
Islip Art Museum, 9/28 - 11/16, East Islip, NY
1997 “Sculpture on Second”, Cedar Rapids Metropolitan Arts Council, 6/97 - 5/98, IA
1996 “Earth Tongues, Spires, Yearnings in Clay”, solo, Pleiades Gallery, New York, NY
1996 “International Jury Show ‘96", Thelma Golden curator, March -April, NJ Center for
the Visual Arts, Summit, NJ
1995 “In Three Dimensions: Women Sculptors of the ‘90s”, Charlotte Streifer-Rubinstein
juror Snug Harbor Cultural Center, catalogue, all year, SI, NY
1995 “Three Rivers Art Festival”, US Steel building, Richard Flood juror, Pittsburgh, PA
1994 “34th Annual Jury Exhibition”, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
1992 “Terra Cotta for the Mind’s Eye”, solo exhibition, Pleiades Gallery, New York, NY
1989 “Art ‘Round Town: Public Art in Private Places”, Sag Harbor, NY
1987 “Works by Women”, National Jury Sculpture Exhibition, catalogue, Carnegie Arts
Center, Covington, KY
1984 “Artist Choice Museum: The First Eight Years”, invitational, catalogue, New York, NY
1984 “Portraits: Form and Concept”, Ruth Bass curator, First Women’s Bank, NYC, NY
1983 “Bodies and Souls”, Artist Choice Museum invitational, Midtown Gallery, NYC, NY
1982 “28th Annual Jury Exhibition”, Dore Ashton curator, Parrish Art Museum, NY 1980 “The Figure: Sculpture in the Seventies”, traveling exhibition, Pratt Manhattan Center,
AK Art Center, AZ St. University, Dartmouth Art Museum, catalogue, with
De Kooning, & Baskin
1980 “Younger Artists”, Artist’s Choice Museum, A.M. Sachs Gallery, New York, NY
1978 “Sculpture in the Drawing Room”, solo exhibition, Landmark Gallery, New York, NY
1978 “Brooklyn ‘78", invitational, Brooklyn Museum, NY
1973 “1973 New Mexico Fine Arts Biennial”, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM