A woman with long wavy hair and bright lipstick taking a selfie outdoors against a background of a brick wall and shelves with decorative items.

Sarah R Glaser is a comic artist, illustrator, and printmaker from Norfolk, Virginia with a passion for storytelling. Drawing from the elastic, in-between spaces of glitch feminism and gothic folklore, her cross-genre narrative works invite contemplation, laughter, and awe. She employs both digital and traditional techniques unique to each project, experimenting with a variety of mediums to create art zines, mini-comics, and prints. She is the illustrator of the Bosley the Beach Cat series as well as another children's picture book based on Norfolk’s beloved Scotch and Soda, the Lions.

Sarah currently serves as Program Manager for the Arts at Old Dominion University and is the Founder of studioSHIFT, a community print shop and art studio in Coastal Virginia.

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Experience

Lionbyrd Art, 2021—

Exhibition Record

2026

  • Nourish Food Drive Art Show, Zeke’s, Chesapeake, VA

2025

  • TENFOLD: An Exhibition Honoring a Decade of the CAN, City Center at Oyster Point, Newport News, VA

  • 48th Annual ODU Literary Festival: Suspend Your Disbelief, Gordon Art Galleries, Norfolk, VA

  • The Womxn’s Connective Art Show, The Plot, Norfolk, VA

2024—2025

  • To the Max! Juried Exhibition, Suffolk Art Gallery, Suffolk, VA

  • Perry Glass Studio Overlook Gallery, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA

2024

  • Collaborations, The Virginia Beach Art Center, Virginia Beach, VA

  • The Stories We Told Ourselves: Myths & Legends, For All Handkind, Norfolk, VA

2023

  • Traces | Residuals | Ghosts, For All Handkind, Norfolk, VA

  • Focus Artist Gallery, Hermitage Museum and Gardens, Norfolk, VA

2022

  • 2nd Place, Summer Camp Juried Art Show, For All Handkind, Norfolk, VA

Publications

Children’s Books — Illustration

  • Short, Bennett. Scotch & Soda the Lions: 2023

  • Shipp, T.H., Bosley the Pilot Cat: CoastWriter Publishing, 2022

  • Shipp, T.H., Bosley the Pirate Cat: CoastWriter Publishing, 2022

  • Shipp, T.H., Bosley the Beach Cat: CoastWriter Publishing, 2021

Old Dominion University, 2016—

Program Manager for the Arts, 2019—

  • Market on Monarch Concert Series, VEER Nomination: Best Live Music, 2021

  • Staff Member of the Year Award 2022—2023, College of Arts and Letters

Office Manager, Philosophy and Religious Studies Department, 2018—2019

  • CEPE 2019: Symposium Co-Organizer

Graduate Assistant, College of Arts and Letters, 2016—2017

  • Arts Box Office Manager, Arts@ODU

  • Research Assistant, Baron and Ellin Gordon Art Galleries

  • Research Assistant, Institute for the Humanities

Education

Old Dominion University

CT, Arts and Entrepreneurship, May 2023

  • Relevant Coursework: Arts Administration, Fundraising for the Arts, Museum Studies, Public Art, Social Entrepreneurship

MA, Humanities, May 2022

  • Concentration: Visual Studies

  • Thesis Project, “Speculative Worldbuilding as Critical Practice”

  • Relevant Coursework: Superheroes and Society, Spanish Graphic Novels, Intermediate Printmaking, Politics of Social Media

BA, English, May 2015

  • Concentration: Language and Linguistics