Photographer and writer Sabine Schmidt was born and raised in Germany and lives in the Ozarks. She holds an MFA in literary translation from the University of Arkansas. Her work has appeared in exhibitions and publications both in the United States and in Germany, including National Geographic and Rolling Stone. Commissioned by the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute as part of its 2018 Art in Its Natural State program, she created the walk-in sculpture (In)Visible House, which explored themes of home and memory. Schmidt won an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Arkansas Arts Council and received the 2021 Artist Award from the Arkansas Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts. A three-year photography and writing project about libraries serving under-resourced areas was published as Remote Access: Small Public Libraries in Arkansas (co-authored with Don House) by the University of Arkansas Press in December 2021.
Her writing and photography have appeared in American and German publications, including Whitefish Review, L.A. Times Online, Audi Magazine, and Rolling Stone Germany. Schmidt received Artist Registry Awards from the Arkansas State Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts for 2015-16 and 2017-18. Her installation (In)Visible House is part of the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute’s 2018-19 Art in Its Natural State program. She is the recipient of a 2018 Arkansas Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship.
