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Sarita Westrup is a craft-based artist who lives in 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 NYC, 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, was a semi-finalist for the Nest Heritage Craft Prize in 2023, and received a $10,000 grant through the Teaching Artist Cohort from the Center of Craft in 2024. Westrup completed a one-year artist-in-residence at the Penland School of Craft in February of 2025 and is represented by Erin Cluley Gallery in Dallas, TX.
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Bakersville, NC
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$15,000
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