Sharon Dowell is a painter with a focus on works on canvas, murals and public art. Intertwining themes course through her paintings; the energy of place, renewal, regeneration, and redemption. She believes that creative place making communicates distinctiveness and generates connections across communities. Thus, it is important for her paintings, murals and public art to often serve as a vehicle to give back and shape communities for the better.

She received an MAAA from Winthrop University and a BFA from UNCC. Sharon curates for Gallery c3 at Alchemy and has served as an Adjunct Professor and Rowe Galleries Coordinator at UNC Charlotte and as Director for Center of the Earth Gallery. A 2014 TedX Charlotte speaker, she regularly lectures and teaches art workshops.

 Her commissions include large scale mural and transit projects for Chicago, Charlotte, Raleigh, Durham, and Boulder, CO, and Rock Hill, SC. Her residencies include The McColl Center for Visual Art, Penland School of Craft, Vermont Studio Center, Can Serrat-Barcelona, Casa Lu-Mexico City, Tyrone Guthrie Center-Ireland, NES-Iceland, United Buddy Bear-Berlin, and the Julia and David White Colony-Costa Rica. Sharon has received multiple ASC grants and her work is in corporate collections nationwide.

 ABOUT THE PIECE, $650

 The pharmacist at the drugstore drive-through window, his calm voice gave me instructions as I took the Covid test...I could see the compassion in his eyes peering over the mask. I thought about the constant interaction, monotony and the risk he must face every day, and it filled me with appreciation.