Discipline: Visual Art

Katherine Sherwood

Discipline: Visual Art
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1984
More: www.katherinesherwood.com
Katherine Sherwood’s acclaimed mixed-media paintings gracefully investigate the point at which the essential aspects of art, medicine, and disability intersect. In addition to showing regularly throughout the United States, she co-curated the exhibition “Blind at the Museum” at the Berkeley Art Museum, and organized an accompanying conference at UC Berkeley. Sherwood was a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship 2005-2006 and a Joan Mitchell Foundation grant 2006-2007. She retired in mid-2016, and was featured in a retrospective exhibition at the Worth Ryder Art Gallery in October 2016. Katherine is a Professor Emerita at UC Berkeley in the Art Department and the Disability Studies Program where she teaches art, medicine & disability and art & meditation. She is the artist-in-residence at the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute and the co-founder of the art and disability collective, The Yelling Clinic.

Studios

Eastman

Katherine Sherwood worked in the Eastman studio.

Thanks to the generous support of MacDowell Fellow and board member Louise Eastman, this century-old farm building was reinvented as a modern, energy efficient live and workspace for visual artists. Originally built in 1915 to house a forge and provide storage when the residency program was expanding, this small barn was simply converted for…

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