Sarah Jane Lapp is an American artist. She also likes to make people laugh.
Over the last 25 years she has made images for stage, page, screen, and bean, producing essay-films, hand-drawn animations, short plays, jigsaw puzzles, music videos, telematic productions, anti-fascist greeting cards, and photovoltaic solar installations.
Born in Minnesota, Lapp earned her B.A. in playwriting at Brown University before she moved even farther east as Fulbright Scholar at Filmova a Televizni Fakulta Academie Muzickych Umeni (FAMU) in Prague. She apprenticed at Studio Bratri v Triku and completed her M.F.A. from the Department of Filmmaking at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. After a brief stint in New York typing for R.O. Blechman and Wall Street tycoons alike, Lapp spent the next eight years in Seattle, vending her drawings at Pike Place Market, contributing editorial cartoons to the Hearst Daily, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and producing animations, primarily for social justice and arts-dedicated entities. These animations, including her collaborations “Chronicles of an Asthmatic Stripper” and “Chronicles of a Professional Eulogist” with contrabassist/composer Mark Dresser, earned Lapp internationally peculiar museum and festival exhibitions, an almost-Genius Award, and numerous stalkers. Lured back east for teaching appointments at Wellesley and Harvard, Lapp dropped anchor in Seekonk, MA with her partner, the musician Skyjelly. Living among turkeys, deer, and other people’s dogs Lapp uses comedy and compassion to generate free and off-grid renewable energy.
Portrait by Mike Curato, SJL with 'Mercy43' at Art Prov Gallery
