Sarah Van Keuren majored in art history at Swarthmore College, studied printmaking at the Philadelphia College of Art, and has an MFA in Photography from the University of Delaware. From 1980 - 2014 she taught non-silver printmaking processes at the University of the Arts. She is author of A Non-Silver Manual available for free online now at . Before retirement she taught workshops across the U.S. and in Finland. Schmidt-Dean Gallery in Philadelphia represents her work.