Sarah Kaizar



Sarah Kaizar is an illustrator and designer based in Philadelphia.


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Current + Upcoming Exhibitions

October 19, 2024 — March 31, 2025
Burke Museum of Natural History
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington

May 9 — September 14, 2025The James Museum
St. Petersburg, Florida

RARE AIRBook + National Touring Exhibition | 2020-2025
RARE AIR: Endangered Birds, Bats, Butterflies, and Bees shares illustrated stories about North American bird conservation and citizen science projects. This title was published by Mountaineers Books in 2023 and was recognized as a finalist for Foreword’s INDIES 2023 Book of the Year in the Ecology and Environment category.  

A nationally-touring companion exhibition, Sarah Kaizar: RARE AIR, features original gouache and ink artwork from the publication as well as playful interactive experiences to engage audiences of all ages with urgent issues in wildlife conservation.  Exhibition commitments include the James A. Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, Pennsylvania (2023); the Great Plains Art Museum at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (2023-2024); the Catalina Museum of Art and History in Avalon, California (2024); the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture in Seattle, Washington (2024-2025); and the James Museum of Western and Wildlife Art in St. Petersburg, Florida (2025).


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    RARE AIR exhibition at the Michener Art Museum, 2023. Installation includes specimens on loan from the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University. Photo by Jessica Kourkounis.





    Rare and Endangered Bees
    Rusty Patched Bumblebee
    Western Bumblebee
    Crotch Bumblebee
    American Bumblebee
    Yellow Bumblebee
    Variable Cuckoo Bumblebee
    Morrison Bumblebee
    Yellow-Banded Bumblebee
    Obscure Bumblebee
    (No Name) Bombus Fraternus
    Suckley’s Cuckoo Bumblebee
    Franklin’s Bumblebee




    Live video feeds from the Cornell Lab of Orninthology were included in exhibition installations, bringing the outdoors in. 


    Rare and Endangered Birds


    Ae’o - Hawaiian Stilt
    Atlantic Puffin
    ’Akeke’e
    Java Sparrow
    Aplomado Falcon
    Black Rail
    Chestnut-Collared Longspur
    Golden-Cheeked Warbler
    Attwater’s Prairie Chicken
    Red Cockaded Woodpecker
    Ridgways Rail
    Black Rosy Finch
    Whooping Crane
    Masked Bobwhite Quail
    Least Bell’s Vireo
    Long-Tailed Duck
    Akohekohe - Crested-Honeycreeper
    Yellow-Shouldered Blackbird
    Tricolored Blackbird
    Maui Alauahio
    Mississippi Sandhill Crane
    Laysan Duck
    California Condor
    Cape Sable Seaside Sparrow
    Cape Sable Seaside Sparrow
    Guadalupe Murrelet
    Gunnison Grouse
    Hawaiian Common Gallinule
    Brown-Capped Rosy Finch
    San Clemente Loggerhead Shrike
    Evening Grosbeak

    RARE AIR installation at the Great Plains Art Museum at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2024. Photo by Chris Kapica. 




    Rare and Endangered Bats

    Eastern Small-Footed Myotis
    Gray Bat
    Indiana Bat
    Little Brown Bat
    Florida Bonneted Bat
    Tricolored Bat



    RARE AIR exhibition at the Michener Art Museum, 2023. Installation includes projection of live video feeds of bird cams from the Cornell Lab of Orninthology. Photography by Jessica Kourkounis.


    Rare and Endangered Butterflies

    Behren's Silverspot Butterfly
    Callippe Silverspot Butterfly
    El Segundo Blue Butterfly
    Laguna Mountain Skipper
    Lotis Blue Butterfly
    Myrtle's Silverspot Butterfly
    Palo Verdes Blue Butterfly
    Bartrams Hairstreak Butterfly
    Florida Leafwing Butterfly
    Miami Blue Butterfly
    Schaus Swallowtail Butterfly
    San Bruno Elfin Butterfly



    RARE AIR exhibition at the Michener Art Museum, 2023. Installation includes specimens on loan from the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University. Photo by Jessica Kourkounis.