I CURATE!
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Who I Am & Where I Live
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Name:
Sharita Towne
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City:
Portland, Oregon
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Country:
United States
My Life & Work
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Bio:
As an artist, Sharita Towne’s interests lie in unpacking the inherited struggles of past burdens and in affording collective catharsis. Through collaboration, stereo-photography, printmaking, video, and community art projects, she’s worked at memorials in Germany; in the Sahrawi refugee camps in Algeria; Brazil; in gentrifying cities like Portland, Oregon and New Orleans; in schools, museums, and neighborhoods, and within her own family.
She received a BFA from UC Berkeley and an MFA from Portland State University. She currently teaches at Pacific Northwest College of Art, works in the DIY printmaking and audiovisual collective URe:AD Press (United Re:Public of the African Diaspora), the post-colonial conceptual karaoke band Weird Allan Kaprow, and is a 2016 Art Matters grant recipient.
Contact Information
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Email:
ureadpress@gmail.com
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Quotes, Notes & Etc.
Selected Professional Experience (will be updated)
2016 - Instructor, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Media Arts, Mentor, & BFA Thesis Critique
2015 Fulbright, English Teaching Assistant, Brazil
2014 Screenprinting Shop Steward, Independent Publishing Resource Center, Portland, OR
2014 Instructor, Portland African American Leadership Forum & SEI, “De-Gentrifying Portland”
2014 Instructor, ART 257 Video I: Experimental Video, Portland State University
2013 Graduate Assistant, Event and Space Coordinator, Portland State University, OR
2013 Teaching Assistant, Printmaking, Portland State University, OR
2013 Film and Video Instructor, Ravensbrück Memorial, Fürstenberg/Havel, Germany
2013 Art Teacher & Interpreter, Book Arts/Newsletter, Metropolitan Family Serv., Portland, OR
2012 Youth Organizer, Interpreter, Video Instr., Germany/Saharawi Refugee Camps in Algeria
Selected Exhibitions and Screenings (will be updated)
2016 (*upcoming) URe:AD TV, BRIC, NY
2016 (*upcoming) Portland Prints, Micro screenprinting artist residencies, Portland Art Museum
2016 Our City in Stereo, Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, OR
2016 Our City in Stereo, residency, c3:initiative, Portland
2016 Out of Sight, King St. Station, Seattle, WA, survey of contemporary art in the Pacific Northwest
2016 mamuk x̣alaqɬ iliʔi, Littman Gallery, Portland, OR
2016 Portland Lyric, Independent Publishing Resource Center, Portland, OR
2016 AgitProp!, “Karaoking the Museum”, Brooklyn Museum, NY, NY
2015 Karaoking Portland, by Weird Allan Kaprow, Independent Publishing Resource Center
2015 Continents, Auto Body: Buenos Aires, Faena Arts Center
2015 black [genus, genesis, genius], group exhibition, Multnomah County Library, Portland, OR
2014 Continents, Auto Body, Giant Motors: Auto Body & Paint Shop, Miami, FA
2014 Beasts of Notation, transmedia collaboration & event, Independent Publishing Resource Center
2014 Public Apology Karaoke, by Weird Allan Kaprow, Independent Publishing Resource Center
2014 De-Gentrifying Portland, film workshop and community screenings, Portland, OR
2014 Now We Know, In Other Words Feminist Community Center, Portland, OR
2014 Sahara in Stereo, Experimental Film Festival Portland, OR
2014 Karaoking the Museum, Shine A Light, Portland Art Museum, OR
2013 The People’s Laundromat Theatre, with Shani Peters, New York, NY
2013 Memorybildia, Shine a Light, Portland Art Museum, OR
2013 The Living Lab of Family Memory, Field Work, Portland OR
2012 Sahara in Stereo, Here! Hear! Experimental Ethnographic Film, Albuquerque, NM
Selected Awards
2017 The Precipice FUnd (URe:AD Press)
2017 Regional Arts and Culture Council (URe:AD Press)
2016 Art Matters
2016 Regional Arts and Culture Council, Project Grant, Our Family in Stereo
2016 Regional Arts and Culture Council, Professional Development Grant, Agitprop!
2015 Rema Hort Mann Foundation, ACE Community Engagement Grant:
"Tradução: Intercultural Media Exchange: US & Brazil", collaborator to Shani Peters
2015 Expanding Cultural Access, Regional Arts and Culture Council, “BCC:BrownHall”
2015 Community Grant: Northeast Coalition of Neighborhoods, “Hair & Community in Black Portland”
2015 Regional Arts and Culture Council, “Karaoking Portland” with Weird Allan Kaprow
2015 Regional Arts and Culture Council, “Conscientização” with Betty Marín and Zachary Gough
2015 Regional Arts and Culture Council, with Roger Peet, Sara Siestreem, and Gabe Flores
2014 Precipice Award, Black Creative Collective BrownHall, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art
2014 Expanding Cultural Access, Regional Arts and Culture Council, “De-Gentrifying Portland”
2014 Community Grant: Northeast Coalition of Neighborhoods, “De-Gentrifying Portland”
Bibliography and Publications
2016 “An Artist Sees Portland In Stereoscopic Show”, State of Wonder, Oregon Public Broadcasting
2014 De-Gentrifying Portland, KOIN, Portland Mercury, The Skanner, KBOO Radio, and The Oregonian
2014 Talk to the Gun, Social Practice Reference Points Book series, with Pedro Reyes
2014 State of Wonder, June 7th 2014, Oregon Public Broadcasting, OPB, with Pedro Reyes
2012 Now I know my…, Printed Matter LLC, NY, NY
Education
MFA, Contemporary Art Practices, Portland State University
BA, Art & Interdisciplinary Studies (dbl. major) Honors, University of California Berkeley
Languages
English (Native language)
Spanish (Fluent)
Portuguese (Fluent)
Arabic (Working knowledge)
German (Working knowledge)
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