Sarah Naim
Teaching Artist
Sarah Jamal [SJ] Naim is an artist living in Los Angeles. She’s worked with young students in Beirut and LA, exploring play as pedagogy. Her works have taken form as sculpture, sound, painting, and inter-action, investigating the material and spatial qualities of communication. Since 2019, SJ has been making soft furniture and squishy things with her partner as Groupsports, an artist-run multidisciplinary design studio. She received a B.Arch from the American University of Beirut in 2011, an MFA from CalArts in 2018, and attended The Mountain School of Arts in 2019. In addition to teaching, she works with a local non-profit, designing parks, trails, and public spaces in the LA Basin.