Sarita Garcia is celebrating a decade of rich experience in arts education, collaborating with non-profits, cultural institutions, artist galleries, and micro-organizations dedicated to youth-centered art programming. With a strong focus on community and hyper-local education, Garcia is passionate about youth program management and art administration, particularly in the areas of racial justice and decolonial practices.

Garcia currently teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in their Fiber and Materials Studies, OxBow Residency, and at the Hyde Park Art Center for their School and Studios Department.

Garcia has worked within Chicago based art organizations teaching and mentoring youth and adults in techniques of print and fibers. Such locations have been the National Museum of Mexican Art, Marwen, Yollocalli Arts Reach, Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education, Brighton Park Neighborhood Council, Garfield Park Conservatory, Hyde Park Art Center, and After School Matters.

Garcia has focused on museum education practices through research, development and coordination of education programs for institutions such as The Pulitzer Arts Foundations in St.Louis, MO, as their Museum Education Fellow, The Art institute of Chicago in Chicago, IL, as their Ryan Learning Center McMullan Intern, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago, IL, as their Senior Program Assistant in Continuing Studies.

Garcia received her Masters in Art Education in 2023. Her thesis research involved collaboratively unpacking, activating, and building on a continued memory of twenty-six years of Yollocalli Arts Reach youth history alongside alum, artists, and educators to preserve and continue the knowledge and networks of radical Latinx youth agency in the West side neighborhoods of Chicago. In doing so, this project has not only made visible the work that youth have carved in the past for their communities and themselves, but also considers how transgenerational memory exchange can inform youth in the present.