SARAH SATURDAY

GARDENING,

NOT ARCHITECTURE

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"Easily one of Nashville's best and most criminally underrated projects." — No Country For New Nashville

"A memorable and emotional journey that is both visually stunning and deeply moving." — Kindling Arts

"Saturday's entire imaginative enterprise revels in liminalities and ambiguities." — Nashville Scene

Sarah Saturday is an interdisciplinary artist using words, music, light, visuals, and performance to explore the conditions of suffering and the path toward awakening. A recipient of Nashville's Metro Arts Thrive Grant and the Tennessee Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship, she is known for complex, vulnerable, visually stunning performances.

Since 2009, Saturday has released numerous albums, multimedia works, and experimental theatrical performances, and has performed over 200 shows across the U.S. and Canada. Her music has been featured in film, television, and commercials, including an original score for the feature film Superpowerless. After relocating to Nashville from Los Angeles in 2012, she began incorporating film, dance, and spoken word into her technology-driven, lighting-based performances.

Her more recent one-woman audio/visual performances include ABSENCE OF ME (2019), VOYAGE (2023), and a re-release of her 2009 LIGHT WALL in 2025.

In late 2025, Saturday received the Thrive Grant from Nashville's Metro Arts Commission to develop AFTERLIFE, an immersive, large-scale installation and performance piece co-created with longtime collaborator Dycee Wildman and nearly 20 Nashville artists. The interactive theatrical experience premiered in Nashville in June 2026, running three sold-out weekends. The soundtrack was released in August 2026, and the team hopes to remount the show for a longer run in 2027.

In August 2026, Sarah was selected as one of twelve Nashville artists for The Arcade Arts residency, a ten-month artist studio residency in the historic Arcade building in downtown Nashville. During the residency, Sarah will remount all of her solo performances, begin work on new performance pieces, and exhibit her visual works — including a book of photographs taken during her years touring full time.

She will also be exhibiting LETTERS TO OUR UNBORN CHILDREN, a collaborative project with visual artist Tarri Driver: a year-long research project on the topic of women choosing to be child-free, resulting in a collection of 12 large paintings. Sarah will also be hosting several events in her studio space each month throughout the residency.

To find out the schedule of events and performances happening during Sarah's residency, follow her on Instagram (Sarah Saturday @gardeningnotarchitecture) and join her email list.

You can find Sarah's music online under her original stage name, GARDENING, NOT ARCHITECTURE, as well as SARAH SATURDAY.

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Photos by Danielle Shields

Select Works
A person sitting in front of a large screen displaying a woman wearing a colorful, patterned jacket, with several audience members watching in silhouette.
A musician playing electric bass on a brightly lit stage, with silhouetted audience members watching.
A woman singing into a microphone on stage, with a small music setup, illuminated by a bright LED backdrop.
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Afterlife (2026)
The Light Wall 2.0 (2025)
Voyage (2023) 
Absence of Me (2019)
Fossils (2015)
Early Releases & Touring (2009-2012)
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COLLABORATIONS

THE GALAXY CUT (2024)

LETTERS TO OUR UNBORN CHILDREN (2024)

A DREAM, A DAY (2025)

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Film & TV

Soundtrack: Chorus Notes (2024)
Score: Forevering (2021)
Score: How Mavny Spiders? (2020)
Score: Superpowerless (2017)
Score: Dark Side of the Sun (History Channel) (2017)

Syncs — Film & TV