SARITA WESTRUP IS AN ARTIST AND CONTEMPORARY BASKET WEAVER ORIGINALLY FROM THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY OF SOUTH TEXAS. THROUGH THE USE OF MIXED MEDIA AND WOVEN SCULPTURAL FORMS, HER WORK EXPLORES THEMES OF TENSION, MOVEMENT AND CONTAINMENT, JOINED AND PERMEABLE SPACE, AND THE BI-CULTURAL AESTHETICS OF HER HOME. HER ARTWORK IS EXHIBITED NATIONALLY AND IS PUBLISHED IN AMERICAN CRAFT AND SURFACE DESIGN JOURNAL MAGAZINE.
Sarita Westrup is a craft-based artist who lives and works between TX and western North Carolina. Westrup was raised in the Rio Grande Valley of the south Texas borderlands and earned an MFA in Fiber Arts from the University of North Texas in 2016.
Most recently her work has been shown in “Flow States- La Trienal” at El Museo del Barrio, in "The Weight of Wonder" at the Penland Gallery in Penland, NC, and in “Holding Space: Woven Works” at Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, NY. She was awarded a Nasher Artist Grant in 2023, a semi-finalist for the Nest Heritage Craft Prize in 2023, and a $10,000 grant through the Teaching Artist Cohort from the Center of Craft in 2024. Westrup is currently an artist-in-residence at the Penland School of Craft in Western North Carolina and is represented by Erin Cluley Gallery in Dallas, TX.
contact: sgwestrup@gmail.com