Sarita Zaleha featured on Minnesota Public Radio
Sarita Zaleha graduated from the University of Minnesota in 2012 with a Master of Arts in Art History with a minor in studio art, concentrating on printmaking and American art. Her creative practice includes printmaking, textiles, installation, book arts, and social practice, and her work responds to global warming and environmental loss through the mourning practices of quilting and embroidering. This work appeals to viewer-participants’ sensory capacities in order for them to feel global warming in their bodies and at their fingertips. With a landscape quilt and hand-held embroideries and flags, the globe and global issues are scaled to the sensory capacities of the human body, bringing big problems into viewer-participants’ laps and into bed with them.
Time Out, 2014
Temperature vs. Time: 105 Years of Global Warming
