Sharon Louden
Artist, Arts Leader, Educator, Founder & Director of the Institute for Sustained Creativity (ISC) & Editor, Living & Sustaining a Creative Life series of books. Changemaker advancing meaningful opportunities for artists.
- Role
- Consultant at Joan Mitchell Foundation
- Location
- Queens, NY, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Sharon Louden
Sharon Louden wears many interchangeable hats: artist, educator, advocate, consultant, community builder, founder and executive director of the Institute for Sustained Creativity, and editor of the Living and Sustaining a Creative Life series of books. As a changemaker, Louden amplifies unheard voices and advances meaningful opportunities for artists across all disciplines toward sustaining their creative lives.As an artist, her work has evolved from using writing as a medium, to figuration then abstraction through her paintings and drawings, to creating many physical environments that involve an inclusive advocacy using a varied range of media.A visionary leader with decades of experience in academia, Louden is also a committed connector—bridging communities and catalyzing change, particularly on behalf of underserved artists within institutional structures. She is a skilled collaborator, bringing together siloed stakeholders from the nonprofit and business sectors to spark dialogue and drive collective progress. All of her work—no matter the form—is rooted in her active creative practice as a working artist.Her most recent book, “Last Artist Standing: Living and Sustaining a Creative Life over 50” is now available and will be touring through 2027. SustainCreativity.org, SharonLouden.com, LiveSustain.org
Experience
Consultant
Nov 2014 — Present · New York, NY, US
Consultant to Joan Mitchell Foundation grantees.JoanMitchellFoundation.org
Education
Yale University
MFA, Painting
1989 — 1991
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
BFA, Painting
1986 — 1988
Skills
- Art
- Higher Education
- Drawing
- Gallery Administration
- Social Networking
- Communication
- Guest Lecturing
- Consulting
- Art History
- Oil Painting
- Art Education
- Abstraction
- Mixed Media
- Editing
- Printmaking
- Culture Producer
- Public Art
- Contemporary Art
- Online Social Networking
- Galleries
- Art Criticism
- Arts Administration
- Exchange Connectivity
- Art Exhibitions
- Fine Art
- Painting
- Social Media
- Curating
- Sculpture
- Teaching
- Writing
- Museums
- Studio Art
- Visual Arts
- Lecturing
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