Interview with Sharon Siskin
b'Sharon Siskin has an extensive national exhibition record, showing her\\nwork in museums, galleries and public sites for more than 27 years.
She\\nis the recipient of awards and grants that include a Visual Arts\\nFellowship from the California Arts Council in 2003, the 2001 Potrero\\nNuevo Prize, Noetic Arts Program Community Grant, San Francisco Arts\\nCommission Market Street Art in Transit Commission and 12 California\\nArts Council Artist in Residence Grants for community-based public art\\nprojects in the San Francisco Bay Area AIDS support service community\\nand in the City of Berkeley homeless women and children services\\ncommunity.
She was the Artist in Residence at San Francisco Recycling\\n& Disposal, Inc. in the summer of 2004. Her artwork has been\\nfeatured in numerous publications including Women Artists in the\\nAmerican West, edited by Susan Ressler, Lure of the Local: Sense of\\nPlace in a Multicentered Society, by Lucy Lippard, Connecting\\nConversations: Interviews with 28 Bay Area Women Artists, edited by\\nMoira Roth and Site to Sight, Mapping Bay Area Visual Culture, edited\\nby Lydia Mathiews.
She is currently Assistant Professor of Drawing at the University of San Francisco and\\nco-directs with Professor Richard Kamler Arts Outreach: The Artist as\\nCitizen, a year-long program which seeks to embed student art\\npractitioners into communities to collaboratively engage in\\ncommunity-based art. She has also taught as a member of the Core\\nFaculty as an Adjunct Professor in the Graduate Department of Arts and\\nConsciousness at John F. Kennedy University and California College of\\nArts and Crafts, San Francisco Art Institute, California State\\nUniversity at Hayward and the University of New Mexico as well as at\\nseveral California Community Colleges.
She is a recognized leader in\\nthe field of community-based public art and is the founder of Positive\\nArt in 1988, an art project in the Bay Area AIDS community continuing\\nto provide a model for many communities internationally. She has\\nlectured extensively in art colleges, universities, professional\\nconferences, galleries and museums throughout the United States.'