SARAH DARRO (she/her) is a curator, writer, and visual anthropologist working at the nexus of contemporary art, craft, and design. Based in Houston, TX, she serves as the Chief Curator and Exhibitions Director at Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, where she has advanced an intersectional vision of the craft kunsthalle as a living laboratory for fostering material intelligence, cultural dialogue, and social transformation. Her exhibition-making praxis centers on developing counter-models that redistribute authorship and reinvigorate museums as forums for discourse, innovation, and learning by doing.
Darro’s research positions the built environment as an active social agent and frames craft as a field deeply entwined with systems of labor, care, and movement. Recent exhibitions include THIS SIDE UP, which cast art handling as a craft practice, foregrounding the invisible labor and specialized skill that sustains the art world’s infrastructure; and an expanded iteration of Designing Motherhood, which examined the parallels between motherhood and craft—each rooted in care, labor, and intergenerational skill sharing. She has also curated recent solo exhibitions featuring Sonya Clark, Georgina Treviño, Max Adrian, and Cannupa Hanska Luger, artists whose practices engage materiality as sites of historical redress and speculative futures.
She has contributed as a guest curator and juror for institutions including the Pew Charitable Trusts, the American Craft Council, the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, the Corning Museum of Glass, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Penland School of Craft, Wheaton Arts, the Smithsonian, and Hawai‘i Craftsmen and she has been awarded residencies from the Jentel Foundation, the Archie Bray Foundation, and the IASPIS Swedish Arts Grants Committee. Darro holds an M.A. from the University of Oxford and B.A. from Barnard College of Columbia University.