Sara Cardona is a Dallas-based artist who creates abstract collages and reliefs. These pieces, which often evoke organic shapes and forms, draw inspiration from colors and textures found in a diverse variety of media. Originally from Mexico City, Sara has spent the majority of her life in and around Dallas. After graduating from Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Dallas, she spent a year at the Kansas City Art Institute before receiving her Bachelors from the University of Texas in Austin. Sara later received her MFA from Temple University’s Tyler School of Art and completed a residency at the renowned Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She is currently completing a PhD in Aesthetic Studies from the University of Texas at Dallas. After fifteen years of teaching arts related courses at Richland College, Sara recently took on an arts administration role at Teatro Dallas. Her work is consistently included in solo and group exhibitions throughout Texas and she is represented in Dallas by Kirk Hopper Fine Art.

I recently sat down with Sara at her home-studio in Oak Cliff where we discussed growing up in a family of creatives, returning to one’s roots, carving out time for one’s craft, the evolving art scene in Dallas, Bangladeshi movie posters, and her grandfather’s relationship with Diego Rivera.