Bio
Sarah “Dangerwood” Rose is an outdoorswoman and wildlife artist who uses mixed-media drawing and painting to make contact with her landscape. Sarah earned her Master’s in fine art New Mexico, where she lived for many years and painted Mexican gray wolves and other politically maligned native carnivores.
Sarah moved to the North Carolina Piedmont in 2023, where she currently works as a field collector for a company that provides living materials to science classrooms around the world. Her daily engagement with the eastern woods and watersheds, while on the hunt for specimens, has inspired Sarah to use her art practice to explore metaphysical methods of connecting respectfully with her local ecology. Her current work uses an expressive mix of ballpoint pen, inks, colored pencil, and wild-sourced pigments to record moments of the exchanges between Sarah and the land ancestors, spirits, and other non-human intelligences that share her landscape.
Sarah volunteers as a River Keeper with the Haw River Assembly, teaches nature-based art classes, and cohosts The Campfire’s Edge Podcast, a media project to collect the paranormal experiences of hunters, anglers and others encountering the more-than-human in wild places. You can see more of her work and hear her voice at TheCampfiresEdge.com
Education:
2013 MFA (Painting & Drawing), University of New Mexico
2006 BFA (Studio Arts), Mississippi University for Women
2026 Exhibitions:
September-November: “Fate & Folklore” at Zeitgeist Gallery & Bar, Durham, NC. Works Exhibited: Contact I (2025), Contact II (2025), The Doe Who Died Behind My Camera (2026), Pokeberry Opossum (2024), The Faces in the Trees (2025)
August-November: “SPOTFIN Art Exhibit” at the Cowee School Arts & Heritage Center, Franklin, NC. Work Exhibited: Enmeshment (2023), Spirit Money (2026), Otter Family Encountering an Alien (2025)
March-April: “The W’s 2026 Juried Alumni Show” at The Mississippi University for Women, Columbus, MS. Work Exhibited: Contact I (2025), Contact II (2025), Pregnant Doe (2024), Trailcam Raven, North Carolina (2025), Trailcam Coyote, North Carolina (2024), Rupture Synovium (2023)
March: Virginia DWR’s “Restore the Wild” at Main Street Station Gallery, Richmond. Work Exhibited: The Empress and the Rosy Maple Moth (2026)
January: “Explosion of Color: Eyes on Alamance” at Alamance Arts, Graham, NC. Work Exhibited: Time Traveling in Little Alamance Creek (2025)
2025 Exhibitions:
October: The 10th Annual Death Faire’s “Revival” art show at the Smelt Art Gallery, Pittsboro, NC. Works Exhibited: Death Portrait: Little Whitetail (2025), Death Portrait: Cooper’s Hawk (2022)
June: “Nature & Art Symposium” at the Cowee School Arts & Heritage Center, Franklin, NC
Speaker in the “Nature Artists in 2025” panel. Received Honorarium. Works exhibited: Pokeberry Opossum (2024), Cowee Ghost Lights (2025) and Contact I (2025)Fall 2025-Spring 2026 The Hungry Forest Gallery & Press Breviary, zine collaboration with author Matt Stansberry