Sharon Norwood

Take Pics of Your Hair, 2020

Watercolor and Ink on Paper

24 x 18 inches; framed: 30 x 23 inches

Courtesy of the artist

www.sharonnorwood.com/home.html, @sharonnorwoodartist

Sharon Norwood is an interdisciplinary artist working in a variety of mediums to include painting, ceramics, and other mediums. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from the University of South Florida and a Masters of Fine Arts in Studio Art from Florida State University. Her work has been showcased not only in Canada and the United States, but also Jamaica, Korea and Germany through solo exhibitions, group collaborations, and site-specific installations. She has earned multiple awards for her accomplishments and her pieces have been featured in several academic publications. Additionally, she has been given the chance to participate in residencies at places like the Banff Center, McColl Center for Creative Arts, Hambidge Center, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Vermont Studio Center, PILOTENKUECHE (Germany), Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts (Maine), and ROKTOWA (Kingston Jamaica). In 2019 she became a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant nominee! She is included in both private and public collections and has works in the permanent collections at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in DC, The Gardiner Museum Toronto, and Washington and Lee University in Northern Virginia. Norwood maintains her studio in Savannah, Georgia.