Sadie Almand is an American-Italian artist based in Providence, Rhode Island, born in Northern Italy. Working across graphite, watercolor, oil painting, digital media, book arts, textiles, and three-dimensional illustration, her practice centers on storytelling through intimate and carefully composed imagery. Almand is particularly drawn to detailed graphite work and small-scale compositions, using precise mark-making and nuanced color to build emotionally resonant scenes.
Her work explores themes of memory, the body, women’s lived experience, and family history. Influenced by literature, film, and the traditions of classical illustration, she often approaches image-making as a narrative process and seeks to create images that feel both psychologically intimate and visually compelling. Almand’s artistic influences include the Golden Age of Illustration, Impressionism, and late-20th-century Italian book illustration.
She began pursuing art seriously during high school after extensive studio coursework both in and outside of school, where she developed a lasting commitment to drawing and narrative image-making. In 2025, she received the Laurie Whitehill Purchase Prize in the RISD 12th Annual Baker & Whitehill Student Artists’ Book Contest.
Almand is currently exploring themes of memory, grief, and phenomenology in oil painting and book arts, while developing narrative works inspired by short fiction. She is particularly interested in the intersection of literature and visual storytelling, and hopes to pursue work as a book illustrator or designer within the publishing world.