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Sarah G SHARP

 
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Sarah G. Sharp is an Interdisciplinary artist working with alternative social histories, language, place, technology and craft. She has exhibited in numerous venues including The Aldrich Museum, CT; The Bronx Museum, NY; Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington, VA; Field Projects Gallery, NY; LMAK Gallery, NY and Spring Break Art Fair, NY. Sharp is the recipient of a Getty Library Research Grant, NYFA/Wave Hill Media Arts Assistance Fund Grant; Brooklyn Arts Council Grant and Bronx Museum AIM Fellowship. She has been an artist in residence at The Emily Harvey Foundation, Venice, Italy; MacDowell, Peterborough, NH; Joya at Cortijada Los Gázquez in Almeria, Spain; Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson, AZ; The Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT and the Textile Arts Center, NY.

Sharp is the creator of The Tool Book Project, a multi-modal series of theme-based publications, gallery exhibitions, panel discussions and other interactive public events where artists and community members exchange ideas around relevant social issues. Each publication raises funds for environmental and social justice organizations. Sharp holds an MFA in studio art and an MA in Modern and Contemporary Art, Criticism and Theory from Purchase College, SUNY. She is an Associate Professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and faculty in the MFA in Art Practice program at SVA in New York. She lives and works in Brooklyn and Baltimore.

“I am particularly interested in how symbols, patterns and different forms of media inform the ways groups of people create community, relate to their environments and respond to new technologies.”

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