Art that gives back.

Sadaf Padder is an independent curator, art advisor and certified educator. She has curated across the country, from Philadelphia to Los Angeles to Martha’s Vineyard, focusing on themes of climate change and neo-mythology to weave connections between various communities. She has provided writing services for over 100+ artists, in the form of resumes, artist statements, biographies, and grants, resulting in awards such as the Fulbright, Jerome Hill Fellowship and Brooklyn Arts Council Grant.

Padder is uniquely informed by her background as a public school educator and administrator. She maintains a dedicated community-based practice where she develops youth arts programs and internships.  Her curatorial work has earned mentions in LA Weekly, Hyperallergic, and Art News and resulted in acquisitions of BIPOC women artists by the Baltimore Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and the Nion McEvoy Foundation and RISD Museum. 

Padder has contributed writing to Visual Aids, ARTSY, Up Mag, and HyperAllergic. She is a Create Change alumna with the Laundromat Project, a featured curator with ARTSY as well as a 2022-23 Emily J. Hall Tremaine Fellow via Hyperallergic. She is also a board member of the Vera List Center, 12 Gates Arts as well as a co-director of Grown in Haiti, a reforestation organization located in the mountains of Jacmel.