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Rita Sabler

WS11 – Visual Storytelling for Urban Sketchers

A visual journalist, artist, and educator based in Portland, Oregon, Rita Sabler teaches drawing, urban sketching and visual journalism courses at the Parsons School of Design, Pacific Northwest College of Art and Portland State University. She has presented numerous lectures and workshops around the world, inspiring diverse audiences to cultivate a lifelong passion for urban sketching and reportage illustration. Her work has been featured in solo and group local and international shows. In between, she works on drawing reportage projects. Rita Sabler has served as the Education Director on the board of the global Urban Sketchers organization since 2019.

Rita Sabler’s reportage on the Kalaupapa settlement has won Doctors without Borders Coup De Coeur and International Sketchbook Prize at the 2019 Rendez-Vous Du Carnet De Voyage in Clermont-Ferrand. Her recent book “Listening to New Orleans” has won another International Sketchbook Prize in 2023. Rita’s main areas of expertise are Reportage Illustration, Travel Sketching, and Visual Storytelling, but she is often seen on street corners capturing busy markets, festivals, protestors, musicians, and regular citizens living their life in both ordinary and extraordinary ways.

Find Rita online at:
Instagram: @ritasabler