Sara Alonge

Sara Alonge is an interdisciplinary artist, lifelong musician and multi-instrumentalist, who lives and works in Upstate NY, and teaches Photography and Related Media in the Art & Art History Department. Sara is also the technician and building manager of the Fine Arts building, ensuring the functionality and safety of the facilities in Painting & Drawing, Photography, and Etching & Printmaking departments, and assists in Sculpture as needed, such as with the metal foundry pours in the Boor Sculpture building.

Sara holds a Master of Fine Arts and a BA in Studio Art from the University at Albany, alongside having attended Hudson Valley Community College for her undergraduate studies in Painting & Drawing. Outside of SUNY, she was also a vocal instructor and music performance director in Albany.

Sara’s work engages with her life’s ceaseless repetition of displacement, absence, and instability, having moved nineteen times by thirty years old. Her focus on impermanence has prompted an interest in the imprint of items that no longer remain: an elegiac description of our interactions and rituals of care for the places we live, and the transition between inhabitants with the marks that we leave behind.