At the age of 19, Sasha Petrenko was saved by a tree…
Sasha Petrenko is an interdisciplinary artist and Artistic Director of The New Urban Naturalists. Her work combines sculpture, new media, music, experimental writing, and theatrical performance to draw parallels between ecology and human relationships. Petrenko’s projects have been featured widely at national and international venues including the Kebbel Villa in Schwandorf, Germany, Kulturfolger in Zurich Switzerland, On the Boards in Seattle, the Tahoe National Forest, in CA, the Los Angeles County Arboretum, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, Sonoma State University, Southern Exposure, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and the de Young Museum in San Francisco. Her interviews and projects have been featured on college and public radio stations including KALX of the University of California Berkeley and KALW in San Francisco and her writing has been published in Leonardo/ISAST (The International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology) from MIT Press. She has been awarded residencies, grants and fellowships from the Zellerbach Family Foundation, the Headlands Center for the Arts, University of California’s Sagehen Field Station, The Djerassi Foundation, the LAB in San Francisco, KALA Art Institute in Berkeley, CA, Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus in Germany and Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center in New York.
When she is not in the forest, performing or conducting research, Petrenko serves her human community as the Assistant Professor of Sculpture and Expanded Media at Western Washington University in Bellingham.
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photo Mitch Maher, Truckee CA, 2019