Sarah Archer (curator)


Sarah Archer is an American writer and curator based in Philadelphia, United States. She is the author of Midcentury Christmas, a book about the material culture of Christmas in the post-war United States published by Countryman Press, and a frequent contributor to Hyperallergic.

Biography

Archer is a graduate of Bard Graduate Center in New York City, she has her MA, 2006, in Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture. She left her position as the director of Greenwich House Pottery to join the Philadelphia Art Alliance as senior curator in 2011. Archer previously worked at the Museum of Art and Design MAD in New York City as a curatorial assistant. Her articles and reviews have appeared in Slate, The New Yorker online, The Washington Post, The Journal of Modern Craft, American Craft, Artnet, Ceramics: Art and Perception, Hand/Eye, Modern Magazine and The Huffington Post. She guest-curated Bright Future: New Designs in Glass at the Pratt Manhattan Gallery.