Sarah Drasner is an award-winning speaker, senior developer advocate at Microsoft, and staff writer at CSS-Tricks. She is also the cofounder of Web Animation Workshops with Val Head. She is the author of a number one new release for programming books on Amazon, SVG Animations from O'Reilly Media, and has given front-end masters workshops on Vue.js and advanced SVG animations.

Drasner is formerly manager of UX Design & Engineering at Trulia (Zillow). She won the CSS Dev Conference “Best of the Best Award,” as well as “Best Code Wrangler” from the CSS Design Awards. She has worked for fifteen years as a web developer and designer, at points has worked as a scientific illustrator and an undergraduate professor, and has tutored a Byzantine Icon painter in Santorini. ^[1]

Drasner is a role model and advocate for her peers and females in her field.

She is one of the many leading women emerging as a pioneer in web graphics and development standards, transforming the way interactive web experiences are perceived and shared.

Drasner’s work is an exploration of the methods people use to perceive the world around them.

She received her Masters of Fine Arts (M.F.A) in December 2007 from San Francisco Art Institute, and her Bachelors of Fine Arts (B.F.A) in May 2002 in Painting and Printmaking from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. ^[undefined]

Drasner has exhibited her work in Greece, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Recent San Francisco exhibitions include "Macro/Micro ," a show that she curated, as well as participated in at Oakland's Lobot Gallery, "Paint-by-Number" Show at WE Artspace, and “Compelled ,” a show that she curated as well as participated in at San Francisco’s Root Division.

She has recently shown at the Los Angeles Printmaking Society’s 20th National Print Exhibition, and has been in a traveling show with the Museum of Pocket Art.

She has worked for several leading printmaking firms across the country, including Landfall Press in Chicago and Crown Point Press in San Francisco.

Drasner has taught a literacy program for the Cartoon Art Museum, and has worked for the Field Museum of Natural History as a scientific illustrator, specializing in amphibians and reptiles.

She has taught painting, photography and art theory at Hellenic International Studies in the Arts in Paros, Greece as a study-abroad professor, and has tutored a byzantine icon painter in Santorini.

She currently works as a Graphic Designer in San Francisco, California.

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2010

Compelled, Root Division, San Francisco, CA – Curator and Participating Artist

Lopped Off, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Incognizant, Museum of Pocket Art, traveling show

2009

20th National Print Exhibition, Los Angeles Printmaking Society, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Biologies, Morpho Gallery, Chicago, IL

2008

Vernissage, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA Paros Exhibition, Protodomiko, Parokia, Paros, Greece Explorations, Holland Tunnel Gallery, Parokia, Paros, Greece

2007

19th Annual Art Auction, Root Division, San Francisco, CA Ways and Means, 938 Howard Street Gallery, San Francisco, CA Continuing MFA Show, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2006

Continuing MFA Show, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA The Clique Show, Swell Gallery, San Francisco, CA Reality Bites, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2005

Bravado, Uprise, Chicago, IL*

2004

Yak Loom, Java Cha Café and Gallery, Chicago, IL* Homework/s Exhibition Betty Rymer Gallery, Chicago, IL

2002

BFA Thesis Show, Gallery 2, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Nippon Steel Purchase Award, Permanent Collection in Japan

2001

Nippon 9 Award, November 2001 The Gutter Siragusa Gallery, 162 N. State Street As Seen on Oprah Association of Young Artists and Musicians, Oak Park, IL Emerging Artists Marilyn Philby Gallery, Davis St. Evanston, IL

1999

Artbash Gallery 2, W. Jackson Blvd. May 1999 Take 5 Elected Exhibition, Gallery 2, W. Jackson Blvd.

April 1999 Palo Alto Cultural Center, May through June 1998

Hellenic International Studies in the Arts December 2007 – present Position – Professor of Painting, Photography, and Art Theory

Cartoon Art Museum January – December 2007 Position – Teaching literacy program for elementary school children through developing autobiographical comic books

San Francisco Art Institute September – December 2006 Position – T.A. for Caitlin Mitchell-Dayton, Drawing I and II

San Francisco Art Institute December - June 2006 Position- T.A. for Ian McDonald, Friday Practicum

Field Museum of Natural History- Chicago, IL August 2003 - January 2007 Position- Scientific Illustrator, Web Design, Assistant to the ManagingnScientific Editor of Fieldiana * Illustrations featured in publications for the Division of Amphibians and Reptiles

University of California, San Francisco Medical Center- San Francisco, CA April - September 2003, May 2007, October 2009 Web Design, Print Design, and Medical Illustration * Illustrations featured in publications for the Neonatal Brain Disorders Laboratory

Performance Art Chicago, in collaboration with Insight Arts- Chicago, IL June – July 2003, and March 2004 Tech – Lights, Sound

Landfall Press- Chicago, IL May – August 2001 Position – Administrative Assistant, Press Assistant

Crown Point Press – San Francisco,CA Winter Intern, 2000 – 2001 Position – Printer, Press Assistant

Lifetouch Photography – San Jose, CA June 2000 – September 2000 Position – Professional Photographer

Teacher, Grace Lutheran Church Afterschool Programs Kindergarten and Fourth/ Fifth grade art classes - 1997 - 1998

Mural Project with children of East Palo Alto middle schoo l- 1998

Intern, Art Preservation, 1998. Niccolo Caldararro ^[undefined]

Drasner has a series of tutorials and instructional videos on Youtube ^[undefined] and on Lynda.com ^[undefined]