Sarah Quanci: Rural Reverence

Fine Arts 2025 Thesis Exhibition

Artist Bio
Sarah Quanci is an artist and student at Columbus College of Art & Design. They are graduating in spring 2025 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, minoring in Art History with concentrations in printmaking and ceramics. Quanci plans to continue her personal artmaking practice while pursuing a career within museums and other creative fields. In her free time, Sarah likes to explore nail art and creating nail sets, running her photography business, watercolor painting, embroidery, and exploring printmaking.

Artist Statement
Sarah Quanci explores Queerness, self-identity, and girlhood paired with hyper-Christian imagery and an overly feminine palette to create humorous and blasphemous mixed media work. The subject matter encompasses religious imagery, femininity, rural life, humorous irony, and storytelling through quotes and lyrics. Her art pokes at religion and her upbringing within the church, while also serving as a way for herself and the viewer to process personal identity. The objects within her art convey personal childhood circumstances, obsessions, life after religion, and growing up in Appalachia and the rural Midwest. Quanci uses easily manipulated materials within fiber, painting, printmaking, and sculpture.