Mara Sprafkin
Artist Exchange, Artist Interview, Exhibiting Artist, Artist-in-Residence
Mara Sprafkin is a Brooklyn native. She holds a BA from Bowdoin College and an MFA from Columbia University. She has exhibited throughout the United States and locally at both Second Street Gallery and with New City Arts. Sprafkin was a 2013-2014 Artist-in-Residence with New City Arts at the Haven and has been a Community Fellow with The University of Virginia’s International Residential College. Mara is the founder of the New City Artist Exchange, an annual artist-led program that brings together Charlottesville artists to create and exchange a unique set of artwork with one another.
Sprafkin is a trained printmaker having studied printmaking at both Bowdoin and Columbia. She has assisted master printers at Columbia and at Pace Prints Ink. She has also worked curatorially in Prints & Illustrated Books at The Museum of Modern Art. Sprafkin made a giant shift when she started exclusively working digitally on her iPad after the birth of her son in 2015.
Instagram: @marasprafkindraws
Bio courtesy of the artist.
From September 2-23, 2022, 2022, New City Arts presents Feed Them, an exhibition of drawings by Warren Craghead III and paintings by Mara Sprafkin, made in collaboration with her children.
New City Arts presents the New City Artist Exchange at Welcome Gallery, featuring original works by Charlottesville artists Tori Cherry, Ashon Crawley, Jen Deibert, John Grant, Mary Lamb, Calista Lyon, Frank Phillips, Lisa Ryan, Andrea Ruedy Trimble, Joe Vena, and Derrick J. Waller.
New City Arts presents Quarantine Drawings, a special installation of drawings in the Welcome Gallery window.
From September 2-23, 2022, 2022, New City Arts presents Feed Them, an exhibition of drawings by Warren Craghead III and paintings by Mara Sprafkin, made in collaboration with her children.
New City Arts presents the New City Artist Exchange at Welcome Gallery, featuring original works by Charlottesville artists Tori Cherry, Ashon Crawley, Jen Deibert, John Grant, Mary Lamb, Calista Lyon, Frank Phillips, Lisa Ryan, Andrea Ruedy Trimble, Joe Vena, and Derrick J. Waller.
New City Arts presents Quarantine Drawings, a special installation of drawings in the Welcome Gallery window.
New City Arts presents the New City Artist Exchange at Welcome Gallery, featuring original works by Charlottesville artists Angela Gleeson, Amdane Sanda, Julia Loman, Ken Horne, Kori Price, Lauren Goans, Rebekah Wostrel, Sam Dabney, Sean Rubin, Somé Louis, and Steve Haske. All proceeds from the sales of the Exchange work will benefit Housing2Home.
From January 9 - 25, 2019, New City Arts presents the New City Artist Exchange at Welcome Gallery, featuring original works by Charlottesville artists Annie Temmink, Frank Walker, Golara Haghtalab, Grace Ho, Kaki Dimock, Karina A. Monroy, Matt Eich, Nick Watson, Phuong Duyen Nguyen, and Rayne MacPhee. All proceeds from the sales of the Exchange work will benefit Housing2Home.
From January 12 - 26, 2018, New City Arts presents the New City Artist Exchange at Welcome Gallery, featuring original works by Charlottesville artists Brittany Fan, Carol Barber, Eze Amos, Greg Antrim Kelly, James Johnson, Juliana Daugherty, Kirsten Hemrich, Lara Call Gastinger, Maggie Stein, Matt Smithson, Sarah Miller, Valencia Robin, and VM Fisk. All proceeds from the sales of the Exchange work will benefit Housing2Home.
New City Arts presents the New City Artist Exchange at Welcome Gallery, featuring original works by Charlottesville artists Amanda Wagstaff, April Sanders, Hank Ehrenfried, Laura Wooten, Lisa Ryan, Lou Haney, Nina Thomas, Sandy Williams, Steve Taylor, and Warren Craghead.
New City Arts presents New City Artist Exchange at Welcome Gallery, featuring 10 original works by Charlottesville artists Alyssa Pheobus Mumtaz, Cate West Zahl, Kristen Finn, Ken Horne, Laura Dillon Rogers, Lily Erb, Roger Williams, Ryan Trott, Sarah Boyts Yoder, and Tobiah Mundt.
New City Arts presents New City Artist Exchange at Welcome Gallery, featuring 16 original works by Charlottesville artists Ashley Walton, Amanda Finn, Dean Dass, Hannah Barefoot, Jessica Lee, Joy Meyer, Katie Pennock, Kendall Cox, Laura Snyder, Malena Magnolia, Mara Sprafkin, Matt Leech, Matt Pamer, Pamela Pecchio, Stephanie Fishwick, and Victoria Long.
New City Arts presents You Are Here, Charlottesville community map drawings facilitated by Laura Snyder and Mara Sprafkin.
A native of Brooklyn, NY, Mara Sprafkin relocated to Charlottesville, VA in in 2011. In the Working from Home series, Charlottesville artists are sharing about their work and life in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.