Sarah Chapman

Sarah Chapman is a ceramic artist and educator based in West Concord, Massachusetts. She teaches ceramics at Concord-Carlisle High School and maintains an active studio practice, having spent more than a decade as a studio artist at Mudflat Studio before joining the studios at The Umbrella Arts Center in fall 2023. For over twenty years, she has been an engaged member of the greater Boston arts community, and her work is represented by Tanuki Gallery in Brewster, Massachusetts.

Sarah's connection to making began in childhood and spans a range of disciplines, from pottery to printmaking. She earned her BFA in Fine Art from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston in 2002. She has also completed more than twenty years at Mudflat Studio, including a year-long technical education program focused on clay bodies, glazes, kilns, and firing processes. Her technical expertise extends across atmospheric firing methods, including soda firing, and in summer 2026 she will attend a wood-firing workshop at Penland School of Craft.

In 2009, Sarah returned to coil building, integrating it with additional hand-building techniques to develop her current body of work. Her practice unites ancient coil-building traditions with a contemporary sensibility. Her surfaces reflect a printmaker's vocabulary, drawing on monoprint, etching, screenprinting, sgraffito, and painting to build layered, textural compositions.