About Shawn Sargent
Shawn was a small business owner, image editor and private art teacher before she began her studies at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University, Boston. Her goal to foster an awareness of our everyday surroundings brought her to Chicago to complete a degree in Visual and Critical Studies at the School of the Art Institute.

Shawn is an award-winning tutor and art instructor, teaching non-traditional mixed media classes throughout Chicago and surrounding suburbs. She is always excited to find new ways to create imagery and art objects and and share those concepts with others. A published artist, writer/editor and photographer, her work is exhibited nationally and featured on book and journal covers. She recently launched a business to license her new quirky line drawings, characters and surface designs that are featured on her handmade products.

Education
Bachelor of Arts, Visual and Critical Studies
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), Chicago, IL 2004
Creative/Field Research, Visual and Critical Studies
The Skopelos Foundation for the Arts, Athens and Skopelos, Greece, June 2003
Bachelor of Fine Arts studies, Interdisciplinary Media
The School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA)/Tufts University, Boston, MA 1999-2002

Exhibitions & Events
2014 Traveling Woman, Photo-based art, Faculty Exhibition, Dupage Art League, Wheaton, IL
2013 Art/Design Group Show/Boutique, Out of the Box, Forest Park, IL
2013 Arts Alive! Photography Exhibition (invitational solo show), 45th Ward-Alderman Arena, Chicago, IL
2012 Faculty Exhibition, Photo-based art in Mixed Media Exhibit, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
2012 Drawing with Light, Photography series in Multimedia Group Exhibit, Utopic Gallery, Chicago, IL
2012 REACH Beyond Domestic Violence, 9th Annual Artist/Celebrity Plate Auction, WGBH Studios, Boston, MA
2012 Curated Group Exhibit of Student Collage/Assemblage Art, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL
2011 Curated Group Exhibit of Student Collage/Assemblage Art, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL
2010 NEVER THINK small: Redux!, Small Works Exhibit, climate/gallery, Long Island City, NY
2010 50 Aldermen/50 Artists, Portrait Exhibit, Johalla Projects Gallery & Chicago Photography Center, Chicago, IL
2010 Urban Landscapes, Photography Exhibit, Webster's Wine Bar, Chicago, IL
2010 REACH Beyond Domestic Violence, 7th Annual Artist/Celebrity Plate Auction, Westin Hotel, Waltham, MA
2009 Out of the Box, Group Show/Artist Boutique, Forest Park, IL
2009 Arte at Nite, Annual Art Exhibit/Charity Event, Glitch Gallery, Elmhurst, IL
2009 Mutations, Multi-Media Group Exhibit, Douglas Park Field House, Chicago, IL
2009 Forest Park Arts Fest, Annual Juried Art Fair, Forest Park, IL
2008 REACH 5th Annual Artist/Celebrity Plate Auction, Wellesley Public Library, Wellesley, MA
2006 REACH 3rd Annual Artist/Celebrity Plate Auction, Massachusetts Medical Society, Boston, MA
2004 Trace and Transformation, Artist-in-Residence Group Installation, Three Walls Gallery, Chicago, IL
2004 Residue, Object Installation (solo exhibit), SAIC, Chicago, IL
2003 Narrative, Artist-in-Residence Installation, Skopelos Foundation for the Arts, Skopelos, Greece
2002 Five Parts, Mixed Media Installation, Lyman-Eyer Gallery, West Newton, MA
2000 Baggage, Annual Faculty Exhibition, The Grossman Gallery, Boston, MA
2000 Sculptural Objects, Annual Juried December Sale, SMFA, Boston, MA
1999 On the Edge of Function, Annual Juried Sculpture Exhibition, The Grossman Gallery, Boston, MA
1997 Visibility, Photography Exhibition, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA

Selected Publications
Digital Images
"Leaving Legacies," Portrait of Alderman Willie Cochran, Chicago Reader, Chicago, IL, p.16, April, 2010
Also appeared online in The Huffington Post, Time Out Chicago, Chicago Art Review, and Art Talk Chicago
Book Cover ("In the Bedroom"), Marginal State, poetry book by Francesco Levato, Fractal Edge Press, 2006
"Body," "In the Bedroom," Ink and Ashes, Issue 2: Summer 2005
Journal Cover ("Lemon"), Ink and Ashes: an online journal of the senses, Debut Issue: Spring 2005
"Within," "Prayer," "Isolation," "Cleansing," Ink and Ashes (selected images), Debut Issue: Spring 2005
"Untitled," Fnewsmagazine, Ink: Art and Literary Supplement (juried), Chicago, IL, pp6-7, May, 2003

Creative Non-Fiction
"An Armchair Perspective," Fnewsmagazine, Chicago, IL, p.19, October, 2003
"Two Before Greece," Fnewsmagazine, Chicago, IL, p.19, September, 2003
"Sweet Lemonade," Fnewsmagazine, Ink: Art and Literary Supplement (juried), Chicago, IL, p.5, May, 2003
"To See and Not to See," Fnewsmagazine, Chicago, IL, p.13, October, 2002

Bibliography
"Emotional Artifacts," Weekly Dig, Boston, MA, Vol. 4, Iss. 27, p.17, 7/17-7/24, 2002