Sarah Jaworski, MSc
Assistant Curator, Science and Cultural Equity
Biography
Sarah Jaworski (they/them) is assistant curator, science and cultural equity, at Ingenium. They graduated from Concordia University with a bachelor of fine arts in studio arts with a minor in biology, followed by the University of Dundee with a master’s of science in forensic art and facial identification.
Sarah started with Ingenium’s curatorial team in 2021, working with the communications portfolio where they completed a review of the foundry type in the print collection. Working now across the Ingenium collection areas, their research focuses on stories that have been historically left out of Canadian science and technology narratives. They are passionate about inclusive and intersectional research into how technology was shaped, and used, by the 2SLGBTQIA+ people living on the land we now call Canada.
Additionally, Sarah is a freelance forensic artist and has completed facial reconstructions for the Museum of Edinburgh (Past Lives of Leith), and jointly for the City of Ottawa and the Canadian Museum of History (Barrack Hill Cemetery). Their fine artworks have been shown in Ottawa, Montreal, Toronto, and London, England.
Areas of expertise
- Anatomy and medicine
- Cultural equity
- Gender and sexuality
- Printmaking and fine arts
Publications
Exploring the material culture of medical artifacts in the Oblate Collection
Scientia Canadensis Article
From The Channel
Inside the cigar box: A peek into a small, Canadian printing press
A glimpse of what life might have been like for a small printing operation.
A Phone Call from Below the Arctic Ice
The 50th Anniversary of Arctic III Sub-Igloo Phone Call to Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau
