Sharon Mayberry Anton (1944-2021) wrote film criticism and was an early champion of New German Cinema, particularly the works of Rainer Werner Fassbinder. After graduating from Hendrik Hudson High School in Montrose, NY she enrolled at Harpur College (now Binghamton University) in 1961. Eventually Anton moved to Western Massachusetts in 1971 after some time in San Francisco and worked at UMass Amherst while completing her undergraduate degree in a low-residency program at Goddard College. She worked as a freelance writer and editor, and wrote a weekly column for the Daily Hampshire Gazette in the late 1970s and early 1980s. In the 1990s she reinvented herself as a movie extra and appeared in several films made in western Massachusetts and Vermont. A late move to Los Angeles meant work as a television extra and a pursuit of painting and drawing, before a return to the East Coast
Sharon Anton
Studios
Monday Music
Sharon Anton worked in the Monday Music studio.
Given to the residency by the Monday Music Club of Orange, NJ, Monday Music Studio is sited next to an enormous boulder deposited by glaciers thousands of years ago. A small dormer once pierced the east slope of the roof, but after damage suffered in the 1938 hurricane, the roof was rebuilt without the dormer. The interior…