About the Artist

lo the Alien is the alias of award-winning textile artist, Sarah Spencer (b. 1982, Canada). Sarah is an artist, CHIRP Radio DJ, and educator based in Chicago. After spending almost 20 years in the corporate world, she switched her focus to the arts in 2018, when she moved to the US and began a textile-based art practice. Sarah’s work has been featured in print, and exhibited in museums and galleries across the USA.

I continually find myself drawn to the archetype of The Rebel. Whether in the form of artists, writers or other thought leaders, I admire those who dare to push back against unhealthy social norms. My art is made from cloth and thread: tactile materials for a digital age. I’m emboldened by the generations of women who have worked in this medium before me, and whose work has been dismissed as craft. I consider my art to be rooted in feminist, anti-patriarchal, and anti-capitalist values.