Sarah Schuster
Associate Professor of Art Studio, 1988



 
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
1998 If I Had Wings, Ceres Gallery, New York, New York
The Technology of Desire, Fisher Hall Gallery, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio
1995 Ms. Conceptions, Ceres Gallery, New York, New York
1992 Mutual Gazing, Ceres Gallery, New York, New York
1991 Open Studio, 368 Broadway, New York, New York
1990  Sarah Schuster, Denison University Art Gallery, Granville, Ohio
1989  Exhibition, Art and Architecture Gallery, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut


GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
1998 'Howling at the Edge of a Renaissance: SPACES and Alternative Art in Cleveland 
'1978-1998,' curated by William Busta, SPACES, Cleveland, Ohio
'The Woman Who Will Be Named,' organized by Elesa Rosasco, Hall Auditorium Gallery, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio
1997 In-Stitches, Henry Street Settlement, Louis Abrons Arts Center, 466 Grand Street, New York, New York
1996 GLCA Women's Invitational, Albion College, Albion, Michigan
1995 Conceptual Textiles, Michael Kohler Arts Center, Wisconsin
Prime Source, Firelands Association for the Visual Arts, Oberlin, Ohio
1994 Fashioning Life and Death: Athena Tacha and Sarah Schuster, The College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, Ohio
Views From Different Directions, Ceres Gallery, New York, New York
Faculty Exhibition, Fisher Hall Gallery, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio
1993 MY/SELF: YOUR/OTHER, including Emma Amos, Ida Applebroog, Alison Saar, and Nancy Spero, Castle Gallery, The College of New Rochelle, New York
1992 Sense of Self, Spaces, Cleveland, Ohio
Salon of the Mating Spiders, Herron Test Site, Brooklyn, New York
Group Exhibition, The Artist's Warehouse, Stamford, Connecticut
Women's Body of Work, School of Fine Arts, Miami University, Miami, Ohio
1991 Women in the Visual Arts, juried by Howardena Pindell, Erector Square Gallery
Women's Strength: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, Stocker Center Gallery, Elyria, Ohio
1990 Common Ground/New Directions, I. M. Pei City Hall Building, Dallas, Texas
Group Exhibition, in conjunction with National Women's Studies Conference, The Emily Davis Gallery, University of Akron, Ohio
Open Studio: Sarah Schuster and Anna Bresnick, 368 Broadway, New York, New York
The Figure Now, The Cork Gallery at Lincoln Center, New York City, and Long Island University, Brooklyn, New York
Breaking Boundaries, Erector Square Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
1989 Works in Progress: Kat O'brien and Sarah Schuster, ICA Gallery, Oberlin, Ohio
Daughters in Hell, Acme Gallery, Columbus, Ohio
1988 A Room With a View, Munson Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
Artists Invite Artists, Munson Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
Collaborations, John Slade Ely House, New Haven, Connecticut
Recent Graduates, Yale School of Art, London Institute, London, England
Group Exhibition, Gloucestershire College of Art and Technology, Department of Art and Design, Gloucestershire, England
72 Degrees of Longitude, Sheffield City Polytechnic, Yorkshire, England


RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
1998 'for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf,' Designed the costumes and set for this theater production, Directed by Caroline Jackson-Smith, first mounted in Octover 1997 and then re-mounted in May 1998. Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio


PUBLICATIONS:
1998 'Loving Changes,' reproduction of three of my pieces in this journal for women, edited by Martha A. Clark, The Pilgrim Press
1997 'Catalogue for 'Conceptual Textiles: Material Meanings,' by curator Allison Ferris, Michael Kohler Arts Center, Wisconsin


TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
1988-pres Associate Professor of Art, Department of Art, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio
1991 Visiting Professor, Summer Workshop-- "Images of the Body," Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
1988 Lecturer (full-time sabbatical replacement), Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
1986-88 Summer Instructor, Yale University Summer Program, New Haven, Connecticut


GUEST LECTURES:
1996 Lecture/Performance...Fashioning Life and Death: Athena Tacha and Sarah Schuster, Kent State University, Canton, Ohio
Sarah Schuster, Kent State University, Canton, Ohio
Lecture...Fashioning Life and Death: Athena Tacha and Sarah Schuster, Panel at The College Art Association Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts
1994 Wooster Forum Presentation: Athena Tacha and Sarah Schuster, McGaw Chapel, The College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio
Visiting Artist, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan
1993 Visiting Artist, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
1992 Visiting Artist, Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania
Visiting Artist, Graduate Painting Program, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio
Subjectivity and the Female Figure, paper presented for "Carnal Knowing: Sexuality and Subjectivity in Representations of the Female Nude," College Art Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois
1991 Visiting Critic, Senior Honors Program, Department of the VIsual Arts, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
Visiting Critic, Graduate Painting Program, The Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
Visiting Critic, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
1990 Visiting Artist, The Cleveland Art Institute, Cleveland, Ohio
Moderator, Panel Discussion for Exhibition: "Recent Tendencies In Expressionism," The John Slade Ely House, New Haven, Connecticut
1989 Visiting Artist, Graduate Painting Program, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio
Visiting Artist, Department of the Visual Arts, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
Visiting Artist, The University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii
1987 Visiting Artist, Two Day Workshop: "The Figure as Form and the Expressive Portrait," Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
1985 Panel Discussant, symposium for "Painting!" exhibition, Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut


HONORS AND GRANTS:
1998 McNair Fellowship, Nature and Representation, Student Research Assistant for the Summer of 1998, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio
Research and Development Grant, in support of solo exhibition, 'If I Had Wings,' Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio
1997 Research and Development Grant, in support of project: "New York Exhibition," Oberlin College
1994 Research and Development Grant, in support of project: "Fashioning Life and Death," Oberlin College
1990 Powers Travel Grant, in support of travel to Italy for project: "On-Site Study of Classical Sculptures of Venus," Oberlin College
1989 Curriculum Development Grant for Minority Concerns, in support of project: "Contemporary Artists of Color," Oberlin College
Research and Development Grant, in support of project: "On-Site Study of Figurative Sculptures in India, Oberlin College
1978 Ellen Battell Stoekel Fellowship, Yale Summer School of Music and Art, Norfolk, Connecticut


PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:
Ceres Gallery, New York, New York
The College Art Association, New York, New York
Spaces, Cleveland, Ohio
Women's Caucus for the Arts, New York, New York

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