Thursday, February 13, 12:00 p.m.
280 S Columbus Dr Room 109
Sharon Louden will lead a group critique of each ceramic grad student. The Ceramics Department opens up this event for other SAIC students to be present.
Sharon Louden is an artist, educator, advocate for artists, editor of the "Living and Sustaining a Creative Life" series of books and the Artistic Director of the Visual Arts at Chautauqua Institution. Louden's work is held in major public and private collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art, National Gallery of Art, Neuberger Museum of Art, Arkansas Arts Center, Yale University Art Gallery, Weatherspoon Art Museum, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, among others. Sharon is currently a faculty member in the MFA Fine Arts program at the School of Visual Arts in New York as well as Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. In addition to teaching in colleges and universities, she continues to conduct Glowtown workshops in schools and not-for-profit organizations across the country. Louden is also active on boards and committees of various not-for-profit art organizations and volunteers her time to artists to further their careers. Sharon is a consultant for Creative Capital and the Joan Mitchell Foundation. She is also a member of the Artist Advisory boards of the New York Foundation for the Arts, Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists’ Residency and the Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation. You can find more about Sharon Louden at her two websites: www.sharonlouden.com and www.livesustain.org.
