Sharon Siskin is a founding WEAD Board member and is currently on the AIR committee. She is an interdisciplinary visual artist, a community-based artist, and an art professor engaged with contemporary social justice and environmental issues.
Sharon currently teaches at Berkeley City College in Berkeley, California, with classes that include Artist as Citizen, art history, and drawing. Previously, she taught EcoArt Matters at Laney College in Oakland, California, and was faculty advisor in the Master of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Arts Program at Goddard College in Port Townsend, Washington.
Sharon is the recipient of many awards and grants, including:
- Creative Work Fund Grant, 2019
- Berkeley Civic Arts Grant, 2019
- Visual Arts Fellowship from the California Arts Council, 2003
- Potrero Nuevo Prize
- Noetic Arts Grant
- San Francisco Arts Commission Market Street Art in Transit Commission
- 12 California Arts Council Artist in Residence Grants,1988-2003
- Artist in Residence at Recology, San Francisco
Her artwork has been featured in publications that include:
- Notes on the Need for Beauty: An Intimate Look at an Essential Quality (2007), by J.Ruth Gendler
- Women Artists in the American West (2003), edited by Susan Ressler
- Lure of the Local: Sense of Place in a Multicentered Society (1997), by Lucy R. Lippard
- Connecting Conversations: Interviews with 28 Bay Area Women Artists (1988), edited by Moira Roth
- Site to Sight, Mapping Bay Area Visual Culture (1995), edited by Lydia Matthews
Additionally, Sharon’s teaching is featured in Outside the Frame: Teaching Art for Social Change (2009) by Beverly Naidus.