In dialogue – The School of Art Community Lecture Series with Sondra Sherman

Friday 15 March 2024
5–6pm

RMIT University, Building 80 (Swanston Academic Building), Level 2, Room 7
445 Swanston Street, Melbourne

In dialogue — The School of Art Community Lecture Series with Sondra Sherman
The School of Art: Belonging / Ngulu (Responsible Practice) / IDEA Collective (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access) 

This lecture series encourages dialogue and sharing outside of the classrooms and the first session for 2024 is with visiting artist Sondra Sherman. 

Sondra is undertaking an Artist Residency in the Gold & Silversmithing studios at RMIT University and is working closely with students and staff for three weeks to share her perspectives of study and practice internationally. Sondra will provide a short lecture with time for questions.

Sondra Sherman originally from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is the Head of the Jewelry and Metalwork Program at San Diego State University in California, USA since 2010. Previous teaching positions include Rhode Island School of Design, Savannah College of Art and Design, SUNY- New Paltz, and Rhode Island College. Sherman received the Diploma Degree (MFA) from the Academy of Fine Art in Munich Germany, where she resided for ten years.

Her work explores the distinctive voice of jewelry and the psychological and social contexts of the body/wearer. Subjects inherent to personal and social identity have inspired works that use the social codes and private/public locations of jewelry as a platform that invites a broad audience to a conversation grounded in empathy.

Sherman has been the recipient of many awards including Individual Artist Fellowships from the Rhode Island Council on the Arts, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Emerging Artists Fellowship, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as a Fulbright Scholarship for Study Abroad.

Exhibited and published internationally, her work can be found in significant public and private collections including The Museum of Art and Design, NY, the Los Angeles County Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY.

This is a free event.
No bookings required.

Image: Sondra Sherman, WesternInnSanMarino, Steel digital print on aluminum, 3.5 (H ) x 4.5 (W) x .5 (D) inches, 2017