​Sarah is taking a bit of a hiatus from creating public / commissioned art while she studies at the W̱SÁNEĆ College in the full time Indigenous Language Revitalization Program: W̱¸SENĆOŦENIST 

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Sarah Jim is a visual artist from the W̱S͸ḴEM village in W̱SÁNEĆ with mixed ancestry that includes Coast Salish, Mexican, English, and Russian-Jewish. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Victoria and has worked in the environmental restoration field since 2018. Her art practice explores themes of Indigenous land sovereignty, cultural resurgence, interconnectivity, native plants, and coastal medicines. Advocation for the land through depictions of ethnobotanical representation is the focal point of Sarah’s work. Along with contributing to her community through artwork and land-based healing with the W̱S͸ḴEM Ivy Project, and formerly the PEPAKEṈ HÁUTW̱ Foundation, she is now pursuing Indigenous language revitalization through the W̱,SENĆOŦEN IST Program at the W̱SÁNEĆ College. These pursuits are meant to honour and care for the beautiful land, sea, and skies that the W̱SÁNEĆ have stewarded since time immemorial.