PUBLICATIONS, INTERVIEWS & REVIEWS

edited books

Our Girl Tuesday: An Unfurling for Dr. Margaret T.G. Burroughs ed. Skylah Hearn, Tempestt Hazel and Sarah Ross. Sojourners for Justice Press. 2021

Carving Out Rights from Inside the Prison Industrial Complex ed. Aaron Hughes, Sarah Ross and Tara Betts. Hat & Beard Press. 2021

The Long Term: Resisting Life Sentences, Working Toward Freedom ed. Alice Kim, Erica Meiners, Audrey Petty, Jill Petty, Beth Richie and Sarah Ross. Haymarket Press. 2018

Deep Routes: The Midwest in All Directions ed. Rozalinda Borcilla, Bonnie Fortune and Sarah Ross. White Wire Studio. 2012

edited magazine

Poetry ed. Tara Betts, Joshua Bennett and Sarah Ross. I also wrote an introduction to the visual work in the magazine titled” Imagining the Radical Beauty of Freedom“. 2021

book chapters

The Pedagogy of Dr. Burroughs” in Our Girl Tuesday: An Unfurling for Dr. Margaret T.G. Burroughs ed. Skylah Hearn, Tempestt Hazel and Sarah Ross. Sojourners for Justice Press. 2021

Afterword” in Carving Out Rights from Inside the Prison Industrial Complex ed. Aaron Hughes, Sarah Ross and Tara Betts. Hat & Beard Press. 2021

Between the Bottomlands to the World: An Abbreviated Glossary of Experiences in and Around Beardstown, IL”  with Ryan Griffis in Deep Routes: The Midwest in All Directions ed. Rozalinda Borcilla, Bonnie Fortune and Sarah Ross. White Wire Studio. 2012

Due Time” wtih Fereshteh Toosi and Damon Locks in Art as Social Action: An Introduction to the Principles and Practices of Teaching Social Practice Art ed. Gregory Sholette, Chloe Bass and Social Practice Queens, Allworth Press. 2018

And what happens to you concerns us here: Imaginings for a (new) Prison Arts Movement” with Erica Meiners in Art Against the Law ed. Rebecca Zorach, University of Chicago Press. 2015. and in Walls Turned Sideways ed. Risa Puleo, Name Publications. 2018

Arts of Resistance” with Ryan Griffis in Cities and Inequalities in a Transnational World. ed. Faranak Miraftab, David Wilson and Ken Salo. Routledge Press. 2015

“The Audacity of Desperation: Notes on an Evolving Stage” with Jessica Lawless in A Call to Farms. Heavy-Duty Press. 2008

selected articles

Due Time” with Erica Meiners, Fereshteh Toosi, et al. Republished for the Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts, 2019

Supercuts: Educators Share sequences from classes they’ve taught and found to be impacting” Critical Practice #4, 2017

“Siting Expositions: Vancouver” Stories in Reserve, Vol. 1, 2010

“in a most dangerous manner…” ed. with Steven Lam. 9th Letter, Vol. 7 Number 3.  Summer, 2010

Living in Almost-Places“. Shifter Magazine. Issue 11, 2008

selected interviews

“Survey of White Artists” with Latham Zearfoss and Ruby T. Monday Journal.  Vol. 4, ed Danny Giles. March 2020

Reflecting on the Let Our People Go: Week of Action” with Aaron Hughes for the Just Seeds blog. 2020

 “Works of Justice: Sarah Ross on Art Making and Incarceration.” With Giselle Robledo for PEN America Prison and Justice and Writing Program, 2019

Interview with Sarah Ross.” with Gozie Ojini for Graphite Journal, 2019

Interview with Sarah Ross of Prison + Neighborhood Arts Project.” with Heath Schultz for Journal of Aesthetics and Protest and reprinted for Transactions Publications, 2015

Jessica Lawless and Sarah Ross of the Audacity of Desperation” with Anjali Taneja, LAist, 2008

selected bibliography

Designed Space in Between Bodies” by Elisa Tangheroni. STUDIO magazine n°14. 2018

A Critical Phenomenology of Dwelling in Carceral Space” by Lisa Guenther. Log Journal Issue 42. 2018

Callous Objects: Designs Against the Homeless by Robert Rosenberger. University of Minnesota Press, 2017

The Arsenal of Exclusion & Inclusion by Interboro (Tobias Armborst, Daniel D’Oca, and Georgeen Theodore) published by Actar. 2017

Unpleasant Design. Gordan Savicic and Selena Savic  eds. Book. Belgrade, 2013

Actions: What You Can Do With the City by Giovanna Borasi and Mirko Zardini, eds. published by Canadian Center for Architecture. SUN. 2008

Heartland by Charles Esche, Kerstin Niemann and Stephanie Smith, eds. published by Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago. 2009

selected reviews

What are Human Rights to the Incarcerated” by Kerry Cardoza. Chicago Reader. April 7, 2021.

Learning in Lockdown: Education in IL Prisons Under COVID” by Lucia Geng. Southside Weekly. Jan 20, 2021

The Revolution Starts Here: Chicagoans Imagining a More Just World” by Kerry Cardoza. New City. Nov. 25, 2020

“Artists Respond to the COVID-19 Crisis in Prisons” by Patrick Conway. The Arts Fuse. May 3, 2020

Why Chicago needs a memorial to Jon Burge’s torture victims” by Noah Belantsky Mic. May 6, 2020

The Long Term uses art to connect Stateville prisoners to the outside world.” by Merissa De La Cerda. Chicago Reader. Sept. 26, 2018

To What Ends Do We Conquer Nature?: A Review of ‘The Earth Will Not Abide’ at Gallery 400.” by Stephen Eiseman, Newcity Art, May 5, 2017

Unpleasant Design and Hostile Urban Architecture.” by Sean Real. 99% Invisible podcast. KALW San Francisco public radio. July 5, 2016

The Subtle Design Features That Make Cities Feel More Hostile: Think your city doesn’t like you? You’re right.” by Ella Morton. Atlas Obscura. May 5, 2016

Weight of Rage.” by Elliot Reichert. New City, Feb. 18, 2016