Conversations On Love & Loss with Sharon Louden

Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation presents a public podcast series Conversations On Love & Loss as part of the Thomas Fire Artist Recovery Fund public event series featuring artists Cruz Ortiz and Sharon Louden in conversation with Frederick Janka, Executive Director, Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation.

Thomas Fire Artist Recovery Fund, a grassroots initiative to raise, match, and distribute unrestricted cash grants to members of the Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties’ creative communities seriously affected by the Thomas Fire. The efforts of the Fund will include a matched fundraising campaign led by the Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation, with a public program of free and ticketed events, as well as a fundraising art exhibition hosted by Porch Gallery Ojai of artworks donated to benefit the Fund.

Sharon M. Louden is an artist, educator, advocate for artists, and editor of the Living and Sustaining a Creative Life series of books.

She graduated with a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA from Yale University School of Art. Her work has been exhibited in numerous venues including the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, the Drawing Center, Carnegie Mellon University, Weisman Art Museum, National Gallery of Art, Birmingham Museum of Art, Weatherspoon Art Museum and the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art.

Louden is also active on boards and committees of various not-for-profit art organizations and volunteers her time to artists to further their careers. Sharon is a consultant for the Joan Mitchell Foundation and the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation as well as contributes to various organizations including the National Endowment for the Arts. She is a member of the Artist Advisory boards of the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation and a member of the board of directors of the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts.

Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation is located at 248 S Montgomery Street in Ojai, California. 

For more information please contact: Frederick Janka, fjanka@carolynglasoebaileyfoundation.org or 805.633.9188.www.carolynglasoebaileyfoundation.org