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UNDRESSED: Sarah Powers

UNDRESSED: Sarah Powers

Our Latest Crush

April, 17, 2009 , by Acree

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Sarah Powers moved to Raleigh five years ago from Providence, Rhode Island, after graduating from Rhode Island School of Design and bumming around the city for a few years. Attracted to Raleigh as a nice place to live with a growing arts community, she worked at the Carolina Ballet before becoming Executive Director of Visual Art Exchange as well as a household name among Raleigh’s so-called creative class.

New Raleigh was able to pull Sarah away from all her “pretend boyfriends” to snag some photos and talk romance. She met us on a rainy Saturday afternoon at Bain Waterworks wearing wellies and a raincoat with a shimmering gold scarf peeking out the top.


WHY WE’RE CRUSHING: Arist and designer for the Bain Project, executive director of Visual Art Exchange, Member of the Beehive Collective.

STATUS: In a relationship with Jack Hagel, writer for the News and Observer.

WHERE TO FIND HER: Duck and Dumpling for business lunch, Landmark Tavern after work, Sitti for Friday night dinner, Horniblows Tavern for ping pong.

TURN-ONS: Knows what to do with a power tool. Is creative (but not a visual artist). Driven.

TURN-OFFS: Negativity. Overbearance. Not having his shit together. Disorganization.

WHERE TO WOO HER: The Carolina Ballet. American Dance Festival. First Friday. Collector’s Gallery.

WHAT TO ORDER HER: The Malbec.

WHAT TO PLAY ON THE BOOMBOX BENEATH HER WINDOW: Kanye West, “Love Lockdown.”

WHAT TO BRING HER IN BED: Bagel and a latte. Or take her out for shrimp and grits at the Humble Pie patio.

WHO SHE’S CRUSHING ON: “Sonia Drum, Derek Toomes, and Mat Curran—creators of the best student art project ever at Washington G.T. Magnet Elementary School. HEART!”

To follow Sarah further, you can find her work this month in the Collectors’ Gallery and at Artspace, alongside the art of VAE coworker Rachel Herrick.

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  • Richard Bacchus
    04/17 02:13 PM

    How can you not mention her awesome haircut? She’s is by far one of Raleigh’s most stylish.

    great job picking Sarah for this.

  • DPK
    04/17 02:19 PM

    I support this.  Also love that she goes to Horniblows Tavern.  One of my favorite Raleigh places.  :D

  • rachel2
    04/17 02:54 PM

    plus she is tall and really good looking

  • salley
    04/17 03:15 PM

    sarah’s sense of humor is as sharp as her style, and her work on behalf of the arts community is really admirable. nice pick, new raleigh!

  • miss k.c.
    04/17 04:58 PM

    Yay for Sarah! She is the best and greatest.

  • Chico
    04/18 04:37 PM

    Undressed? She looks pretty cute with her clothes on.

  • rose
    04/19 01:59 AM

    sarah is a nerd

  • VaNC
    04/19 03:27 PM

    Nerds rule.

  • rudy
    04/19 04:16 PM

    any chance this Jack guy could accidently trip off a short pier..? in the meantime I’ll just ‘pretend’.

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