Sarah “Birdie” Niksa is an artist living and working in Michigan. Her artwork is created from the spirit within and from a well of emotions as a form of exploration and catharsis of the psyche. Her stories are ones that express the strangeness of the human experience. Crafted from a collection of hopeful discoveries of the self and alternate realities. She plants seeds of ideas in her sketchbook where she then cultivates her novel ideas. Her sketchbook becomes a place that is safe and free in her wild expression. A place of refuge amongst pages and pages of messy anecdotes, expanding the boundaries of character design and world building. In her current body of work, she reflects on her past and creates artwork that bridges between the past and the present. She recently received her MFA in Visual Studies from Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 2025. Her work has been shown across the United States, the most notable including, the 97th Contemporary Art Exhibition at Muskegon Museum of Art, the National Collage Society Exhibition at Maryland Institute College of Art, and she has also exhibited at Northeast Sculpture Gallery in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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