About Sara Dotterer

I am a multi-faceted creative person– a visual brand strategist, rigorous researcher, masterful writer, arts educator and multimedia eco-artist. My cross-disciplinary thinking allows me to make connections across vast conceptual distances. I excel at researching, building systems and then bringing them to life with strategy, education and art.

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An ecotone is an ecological term for the overlapping area where two ecosystems meet and integrate (for example, a lake and mountain region). These "blurry" areas are extremely biodiverse and thus resilient– holding up and balancing our ecosystems. The ecotone is a lens I use in all of my work to deconstruct either-or thinking and pull from the resilience of in-between thinking. I live in my own ecotone as an extremely research-oriented strategist and visualizer of ideas who benefits from the many worlds I exist within from research to eco-arts. I am as inspired by my brand strategy work as my artistic work educating students and designing intricate installations, only because they compliment and improve one another. 

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I am from Richmond, VA, but currently based in Austin, Texas. I received a MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Southern Methodist University and a BA in Art and Anthropology from Washington and Lee University. 

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Check out my art studio website here or read my MFA thesis here.