Sarah Johnson
Social Media Coordinator
Enrollment Management
215-717-6059
sajohnson@uarts.edu
Sarah Johnson manages social media and email communications for the Enrollment Management Office, after having worked as a graphic designer and web developer for 11 years. Sarah received a BFA from the Tyler School of Art, where she studied printmaking and art history, and had the fortune to experience the Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Arts both as a student and as a teacher's assistant and resident advisor. She enjoys cooking, reading, sewing, attending lectures and nature.
Sarah's favorite free or inexpensive institutions and activities around Philadelphia include:
- The Wagner Free Institute of Science
- Bartram's Garden (especially for the Honey Festival and Data Garden)
- The Philadelphia Museum of Art (pay-what-you-wish admission first Sundays and every Wednesday evening – free to UArts' students)
- The Free Library of Philadelphia (inlcuding their author series, exhibitions, and rare book department)
- Science on Tap at National Mechanics
- Nerd Nite at Frankford Hall
- International House Philadelphia film screenings (occasionally free, always excellent)
- Institute of Contemporary Art
- Chemical Heritage Foundation
- The Franklin Institute Night Skies in the Observatory, second Thursdays
- The Navy Yard
- Delaware River Waterfront
- Schuylkill Banks Park
- Laurel Hill Cemetery
- The Fabric Workshop
- PhiladelphiaArtAlliance
- Delaware Art Museum Art is Social events
- The Athenaeum of Philadelphia
- American Philosophical Society
- Hiking
- First Friday gallery openings (notably: Artists House Gallery in Old City)
- The great many / many great festivals throughout the year
- The myriad of free summer outdoor movie screenings (2012 listing)
- East and West Fairmount Park
- Any exhibition, performance, or lecture at UArts or the Corzo Center
Sarah's recommendations for off-the-beaten path Philadelphia gems that are worth shelling out a few dollars for:
- Hidden City Philadelphia
- Mercer Museum / Fonthill Castle / Moravian Pottery and Tile Works
- Wharton Esherick Museum (an alumnus!)
- The Rosenbach Museum & Library
- American Swedish Historical Museum (great art and architecture – fun events!)
- Martha Graham Cracker Cabaret (comedy, music, drag…a raucous good time!)
- Morris Arboretum
- Penn Museum
- Independence Seaport Museum
- Please Touch Museum (the exquisite Memorial Hall once housed the museum portion of the Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Art, the original incarnation of UArts' College of Art, Media & Design!)