Sarah Workneh is an arts administrator and currently serves as the co-director of Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture in Madison, Maine.
She has lectured on her work as a residency director, including at Hauser & Wirth in partnership with BFAMFAPhD,[1][non-primary source needed] the 2009 Alliance of Artist Communities conference,[2][non-primary source needed] the International Studio & Curatorial Program,[3][non-primary source needed] Wassaic Projects,[4][non-primary source needed] and others.
[7] The exhibition was co-curated with Nat May, Theresa Secord, and Mark Bessire.
[8][9] She also juried the Maine Farmland Trust 2019 artists residencies.
[10] Workneh is active in promoting and supporting Black artists through her work with Theaster Gates, Carrie Mae Weems, and Eliza Myrie on the organizing committee for Black Artist Retreat[11] and through her work as a guest editor of Art Papers with an issue focusing on Art in the African Diaspora.