Sara Thacher makes work dealing with the concept of exchange. As of this writing, she has walked a mile in 18 other people’s shoes and gone on a surrogate vacation for 12 different people. She studied glass at the Rhode Island School of Design and worked in the art-glass industry for several years. Sara lives in San Francisco where she is currently completing her Masters of Fine Arts in Social Practices at the California College of the Arts.

"My work investigates the nature of art as an exchange between the artist and audience. This often takes the form of performative, deliberate activities or gestures. Many recent projects explore how this connection can become more individual and more personal. Several pieces make that interaction the basis of the work itself. In Walking a mile in other people's shoes, what begins as a literal enactment of a clichéd phrase becomes a serious tool for a social intervention. The people who lent me their shoes in which to walk a mile became the audience for, and co-creators of a very personal action-artwork. The gesture, walking a mile, is such a small, mundane activity; these qualities make it the perfect vehicle for considering service, exchange and gift giving as modes of creative exploration.

For Nuit Blanche, I will be exchanging the color of the sky over my head for the color of the sky over the heads of visitors to the Infinite Exchange Gallery. Although I share a continent with Toronto, when I look up at the sky in San Francisco, I do not generally think about the sky in Toronto. What color is your sky? arises from a desire to bridge that distance for one night through the act of conversation."