Sarah Sandman is a Brooklyn-based design director, artist and activist creating experiences that amplify messages of social change. Sandman is also the founder and co-director of Brick x Brick, an art performance project that built human walls against Trump and misogyny from 2016-2020. She holds an MFA in Graphic Design from the Rhode Island School of Design.

Sandman’s other work includes the Gift Cycle, in which she helped neighboring U.S. communities exchange gifts of art during a cross country cycling journey. Sandman created and facilitated Hostos Hands Up, a collaboration between Hostos Community College's Black Studies program and Media Design program to design protest signs for the NYC Millions March. Sandman’s work has been displayed at The Museum of the City of New York, The New York Historical Society, Smack Mellon, The Wassaic Project and The Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center.

M.F.A, Graphic Design, summa cum laude
Rhode Island School of Design
June 2009

B.F.A, Visual Communication, summa cum laude
University of Kansas and Fachochschule Trier, Germany
May 2002