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Roles
Biography
Sara Silkwood is an illustrator, designer, and educator with a BFA in Illustration from Syracuse University. She has taught in a variety of settings, including classical schools across Texas, where she has developed a classical curriculum grounded in the conviction that drawing is a skill anyone can learn.
To Sara, drawing is form of visual literacy - helping students organize information, gain empathy, and develop cognitive flexibility. She believes the act of drawing builds both artistic and emotional insight, regardless of age or experience level.
In her own illustration work, Sara draws on traditional media - especially pencil and watercolor - for their balance of structure and spontaneity. Her current project is a series of illustrations from George MacDonald’s The Princess and the Goblin, a story whose themes of courage, trust, and unseen goodness deeply resonate with her.
Sara's goal is to offer hope through her illustrations, using design, composition, and light to evoke beauty in suffering and remind viewers that all things ultimately work together for good.