Sarah Spletzer & movementum
Born in Germany, Sarah Spletzer spent her 20s as an art and dance therapy student and a museum tour guide in the Netherlands.
She moved to Vermont in 2014 and is the mother of two very active and creative children.
With her business, movementum, she develops creative retreats for companies, non-profits, and individuals, and teaches art classes in schools as well as for homeschooled students.
Sarah likes to facilitate spaces in which creating meets healing. She strives to not only teach new skills, but to create a space in which participants can learn something new about themselves.
She deeply enjoyed being the wordsmith and creator of make a list, her very first book.
When she’s not teaching or writing lists, Sarah can be found playing with her two sons, dancing, making collages, taking walks, gardening, eating cake, or hanging out with her housemates and various dogs and cats in a refurbished farmhouse in Northern Vermont.
Artist Resume
Work Experience
July 2024 Co-Organizer of “The Community Fence” – a participatory public art project for the community of Cabot, Vermont in commemoration of the 2023 flood
May 2024 Artist in Residence at Vermont Studio Week, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont
January 2024 – December 2024 Development Associate for non-profit organization Mosaic Vermont, Barre, Vermont
December 2023 Completion of self-published book “make a list – a book of prompts”
May 2023 – present Facilitator of Creative Retreats for women for Catamount Arts, St. Johnsbury, Vermont
March 2023 – June 2024 Teaching Artist for the after-school program at Cabot School, Cabot, Vermont
May 2022 – December 2023 Manager of the Cabot Harvest Hub and Program Director at Neighbors in Action, Cabot, Vermont
2018 – 2022 Co-owner and administrator at hemp producer Quintessential LLC, Cabot, Vermont
2018 – 2020 Member of the Cabot Artisans Gallery, Vermont
2019 Birth of son Leopold Pippin
2017 – 2018 Member of the BNI (Business Network International) chapter “Heart of Vermont”, Montpelier, Vermont
2016 – 2018 Freelance writer for the Cabot Chronicle, Vermont
2016 Co-creator of the Weaving Well Being Festival 2016.
2015 Birth of son Milan Alexander
2015 – Present Sole proprietor and owner of movementum, developing creative workshops and trainings in the fields of dance, creativity, art and self-care to schools, companies and individuals.
July 2014 Move to Cabot, Vermont, USA
February 2014 Organizer of the One Billion Rising dance protest in Enschede, The Netherlands
2013 – 2014 Tour guide at the National Museum Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, The Netherlands
2012 – 2013 Project leader for public art project movement patterns, Enschede, the Netherland
2012 Volunteer project leader for art space Tetem kunstruimte, Enschede, the Netherlands
1/ 2010 Winner of the art competition “Die Präsenz der Abwesenheit” (The presence of absence), developed by artist Stephan Us, Münster, Germany
3/ 2009 Nominated for the ISC Award for “Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture”, New Jersey, USA
2007 5 months Erasmus Exchange at Falmouth School of Art, England, UK
2007 Guide for international art event Skulpturprojekte 2007, Muenster, Germany
2006 – 2007 Member of the organizational committee for the AKI Art and Music Festival 2007, Enschede, the Netherlands
2005 Intern at the Art Therapy Department of the Psychiatry for Children and the Youth, Muenster, Germany
Education
2012 – 2014 Post-HBO degree in Dance Therapy (Querido technique) from ARTEZ, Academy for Fine Arts and Design, Enschede, the Netherlands
2010 – 2011 Post-HBO degree as a Professional Artists in the classroom from Minerva, Groningen, the Netherlands
2005 – 2009 BA of Fine Arts from AKI, ARTEZ, Academy for Fine Arts and Design, Enschede, the Netherlands
2005 – present Advanced training in Body Mind Centering, Shiatsu, Contemporary Dance, Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS) and other body work techniques
Exhibitions and Performances
3 – 4/ 2017 “Following the Rules, Breaking the Rules”, group exhibition at the T.W. Wood Gallery, Montpelier, Vermont
4/ 2015 “1001 Nights”, group exhibition at gallery six (now: The Front), Montpelier, Vermont
5/ 2014 “hin und weg” (there and gone), group exhibition at Dynamo, Enschede, The Netherlands
5/ 2013 “In between there are doors”, mini solo exhibition at Twenthe Biennale, Enschede, The Netherlands
4/ 2013 “Show me yours, I´ll show you mine”, an interactive performance experiment for the opening of “Verstand van Smaak” – a group exhibition at Factor 44, Antwerp, Belgium
1/ 2012 “One hand clapping”, contribution for the international project steal the pixel, founded by artist Stephan Us, Germany
3/ 2011 “Slow Motion/ Carpe Diem”, performance for a public space, market place, Groningen, The Netherlands – in collaboration with dance school and research center random collision in Groningen
5/ 2010 “Filling forms with colors”, Kunstroute Lonneker, Lonneker, The Netherlands
4/ 2010 “People in movement – drawings from a danceschool”, solo exhibition at Rhapsody Natural Foods, Montpelier, Vermont
9/ 2009 Performance “atemberaubend” (breathtaking), for the opening of exhibition “Debuut 09”, at Perron 1, Delden, The Netherlands
7/ 2009 Group exhibition of graduates, AKI, ARTEZ, Enschede, The Netherlands
6/ 2009 Performance "Zwartwitje", Blikopener Festival, Delft, The Netherlands
11/ 2008 Performance “The king of the picture”, Off Mess, Enschede, The Netherlands
10/ 2008 Opening Performance "Characteristics of Glass" for Glasrijk Tubbergen, Tubbergen, The Netherlands
1/ 2008 Group exhibition at Falmouth Arts Center, Falmouth, England
4/ 2007 "Woordwerken en Boekbeelden 2007", Coda Museum, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands
6/ 2006 “Traumsammlung” (dream collection), Kongsi, Enschede, The Netherlands
“Every human being is at least one third soul.”
— Sarah Spletzer
