Chimera by Sara Zhara Fitzpatrick
April 14 – April 17
Sara Zhara Fitzpatrick is an interdisciplinary artist and educator whose work includes narrative fiction and personal documentaries. Chimera is a mixed media installation which recovers found family footage to explore personal identity narratives and complex family histories.
Chimera is a multimedia installation that explores the responsibility of archiving family history, preserving legacy, and evolving self identity narratives. It combines archival materials including recovered family photos, super 8 and VHS footage with digital media and written text, revealing multigenerational family narratives and experiences of matrescence and adolescence. Themes include self-expression, memory, family legacy, the digital age, and honoring one’s inner child.
Sara is an interdisciplinary artist and educator whose work includes personal storytelling, documentary filmmaking, and narrative fiction. Her current project, Chimera, is a mixed media installation which recovers found family footage to explore personal identity narratives and complex family histories.
She has presented her work in the Undergraduate Research Conference in New England, and she was the recipient of the First Place Award for the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences of the New England Chapter National Student Television Awards.
Sara holds a B.S. in Communication and a Certificate in Film Studies from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She has been the instructor for Movie Making Madness at the Hopkinton Center for the Arts since 2019 where she teaches filmmaking foundations to children and adolescents. She also has served as a college instructor for Visual Media Foundations of Image and Sound Practice at Emerson College where she will be completing her MFA in Film and Media Art this Spring.
