Sarah Sallee is the art teacher at Mechanicsville Elementary School in Hanover County. She graduated from VCU in May 2020 with a degree in Art Education and a minor in Art History. Her artistic focus is primarily in oil painting, however she has a wide range of media interests including ceramics, performance art, sculpture, photography, and fibers. She spends her free time working at ice cream shops and traveling when she's able to. 

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Focusing in multiple mediums, Sam’s primary forms are Linocut printmaking, Fiber Arts (sewing and quilting) and Comic Art. Sam is a native of Richmond’s East End who has worked to craft a practice around the beauty and inequities found in the East End and communities like it. Through eco-conscious printmaking that highlights the deep history of the East End community and artistic partnerships in schools and community spaces, Sam has been instrumental in cultivating light and love in the spaces they call home. Being no stranger to the obstacles facing students of the East End, both academic and social, Sam looks for any opportunity to shift the narrative and make space for young artists.