Sarah Serio is a nationally exhibiting printmaker residing the Southwest Missouri. She received degrees in fine art and graphic communication from Missouri Southern State University. She is active in her area arts community serving as President of the Neosho Arts Council and previously serving as President of Joplin Regional Artists Coalition. She is also a member of the MidAmerica Print Council, Spiva Center for the Arts, artCentral Carthage, and Neosho Arts Council Circle of Patrons.
Her work has been exhibited in galleries in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami, as well as regionally in Southwest Missouri. Recently her work was part of the 2017 Boston Printmakers 70th Print Biennial, Stand Out Prints hosted by Highpoint Center for Printmaking, MidAmerica Print Council’s Juried Members Exhibition, and Art by America: A National Review of Two-Dimensional Contemporary Art.
Serio is the current Director of the Thomas Hart Benton Art Competition and Exhibition held annually in Neosho, MO, hometown to both Serio and Benton. The event now heading into its 23rd year is a regional fine art competition. She also takes time to teach printmaking classes at Spiva Center for the Arts as well as a young artist studio course during the school year. In the summers she enjoys teaching at art camp at both Spiva Center for the Arts and artCentral Carthage.