Welcome.
I’m Sarah Greenman — creative alchemist, artist, writer, and facilitator. My work is steeped in the Celtic imagination and informed by socially engaged movements for change. I believe that your creativity is a gift, meant to be wielded with great love and joy. It is a bone-deep tool for healing, justice, and revelatory collective liberation.
Stay awhile.
I’m a multi-disciplinary artist, which means that there is a lot to explore below. If you’re new here and unfamiliar with my artwork, here are some places to start:
Sarah’s book: The Creative Alchemy Cycle
Visit the Art Gallery & Browse the Shop
Listen to the Collaborative Alchemy Podcast
Creative Alchemy Cards
A gorgeous 63-card oracle deck designed for daily intuitive, heart-based guidance and inspiration.
Creative Alchemy Cycle
Sarah’s book will show you how to activate Your creativity to wake up and get free.
Love Letters from Sarah
Subscribe to Sarah’s soul-nourishing newsletter. It’s filled with stories, inspiration, art, and so much more.
What is a Creative Alchemist?
I use art, writing, and music to alchemize ideas into action, despair into joy, isolation into community. Alchemy refers to the process of liberating something from its fixed physical properties and transforming it into another substance. Ancient alchemists used chemicals and base materials to turn lead into gold. The gold I seek is a creative and purpose-driven life lived in right-relationship with the world around me.
Come closer.
Let’s build community.
This is your invitation to join the community circle. I am a community supported artist and this circle is the most exciting and meaningful part of my work. I believe that making art should be fun, indulge all of our deepest curiosities, and infuse our world with collective purpose and deep sense of belonging. The community circle is where we find that connection and practice right-relationship.
Patreon is the platform I use for orgnaizing our community. To be clear, It is not a paywall. There are lots of ways to engage with my work: free workshops, occasional virtual open studios (also free), equity price structures for all retreats and workshops, and more. Patreon simply opens a door for right-livelihood and remuneration for my work.
If you are moved by my work and want to participate directly in its creation, then click the button below. Let’s take our connection to the next level and become collaborators!
Let’s collaborate.
Facilitator & Officiant
A gifted speaker and facilitator, Sarah delivers experiences and keynotes that exude vulnerability, authenicity, and humor.
Playwright & Storyteller
Sarah is on a mission to unearth buried stories and share them in a way that shifts the dominant cultural narrative.
Commission Artwork
Have a special project in mind? Sarah loves collaborating with clients and you’ll find her process to be easy and fun.
Creative Alchemy.
Transformation.
Collective Liberation.
“It is the job of the artist to make the revolution irresistible.” — Toni Cade Bambara
Hi, I’m Sarah and I’m a creative alchemist. I am an artist, a cultural worker, a community organizer, a story-teller, and an archeologist of the soul. I am an intuitive contractor, tapping on the walls of our lived experience to find weight-bearing beams of truth on which we may build our own work. I am a process junkie, a practical optimist, an eco-spiritualist, and a creative midwife. Situated in the vast and rural, unincorporated wilderness of Eastern Oregon, I am an ear to the ground, listening for the low rumbling of Earth’s call. My tools are simple yet potent: stories, art, and nature.
My work is created through a justice lens. The goal is always right-relationship. Collaboration is my medicine and collective liberation is my purpose. My process is ongoing and always in a state of deep inquiry. To that end, please read the Land Recognition below. For a deeper understanding of my practices and accountability tools, please visit my About Page.
Land Recognition: I live and work in Eastern Oregon on the traditional and stolen lands of the Nimiipuu (Nez Perce), Cayuse, Umatilla, and Walla Walla people. Below are some resources so that we can continue to learn more about this history and take current action in solidarity. This is only a place to start.
Nez Perce Cultural Resource Program - Promotes the understanding and use of traditional Nez Perce life-ways as integral components of Tribal culture.
Nimiipuu Protecting the Environment - Grassroots Nimiipuu-led coalition organizing around time-honored sustainable environmental practices and protecting tribal lands and tribal treaty rights within their original ceded area and beyond.
Nez Perce Tribe - Homepage for the Nez Perce Nation
Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Reservation - historical account of the native land and tribes of Eastern Oregon
Land Reparations and Indigenous Solidarity Tool Kit - compiled resources on how to take action, especially if you own Native land
Elk above Halfway, OR. (Photo by Sarah Greenman)