Sharon Arnold is a Seattle-based artist, curator, and writer. She studied at Pratt Institute in New York, focusing on sculpture, semiotics, and art history; and completed her last year and a half Magna Cum Laude at Cornish College of the Arts in 2006.
Ms. Arnold is founder of Bridge Productions/LxWxH, an artist-driven public project based on the discussion and promotion of locally-based art and literature. The project's primary function is to create a bridge between artists, writers, and you in an approachable, accessible, sustainable manner. By virtue of your participation, you support our local community and gain access to collecting original pieces of work by local talent. LxWxH is a box of art featuring original work by two Seattle artists and a short essay by a local writer, stemming from the idea that art should be local, sustainable, and accessible. By collaborating with Seattle artists and writers, LxWxH provides an avenue to bring people together and collect art in an affordable and approachable way.
Ms. Arnold's own body of work stems from unique and repetitive applications of traditional and non-traditional mediums on paper. The imagery manifests as fictional cartography or mythology; combining the idea of mapping with suggestions of de-coding, language, and rhythm. Ms. Arnold also continues to maintain the art blog Dimensions Variable as an ongoing effort to further discussion of art in the Pacific Northwest.
Currently Ms. Arnold is the Youth Programs Manager at Gage Academy of Art, where she works to provide extensive and original fine arts programming to Seattle's youth and teens. In the tradition of Gage's focus on realism, technical skills are provided in the curriculum but with notably non-traditional delivery. Through hiring local professional artists in the city, Ms. Arnold keeps the tradition of learning how to draw and paint alive without it getting boring through providing classes in graffiti arts, printmaking, installation and sculpture, and assemblage/collage.
Ms. Arnold is founder of Bridge Productions/LxWxH, an artist-driven public project based on the discussion and promotion of locally-based art and literature. The project's primary function is to create a bridge between artists, writers, and you in an approachable, accessible, sustainable manner. By virtue of your participation, you support our local community and gain access to collecting original pieces of work by local talent. LxWxH is a box of art featuring original work by two Seattle artists and a short essay by a local writer, stemming from the idea that art should be local, sustainable, and accessible. By collaborating with Seattle artists and writers, LxWxH provides an avenue to bring people together and collect art in an affordable and approachable way.
Ms. Arnold's own body of work stems from unique and repetitive applications of traditional and non-traditional mediums on paper. The imagery manifests as fictional cartography or mythology; combining the idea of mapping with suggestions of de-coding, language, and rhythm. Ms. Arnold also continues to maintain the art blog Dimensions Variable as an ongoing effort to further discussion of art in the Pacific Northwest.
Currently Ms. Arnold is the Youth Programs Manager at Gage Academy of Art, where she works to provide extensive and original fine arts programming to Seattle's youth and teens. In the tradition of Gage's focus on realism, technical skills are provided in the curriculum but with notably non-traditional delivery. Through hiring local professional artists in the city, Ms. Arnold keeps the tradition of learning how to draw and paint alive without it getting boring through providing classes in graffiti arts, printmaking, installation and sculpture, and assemblage/collage.
