About The Artist

Shara Hannah Shadowspeaker explores the nuances of person and place. Shadowspeaker looks at our desire for preservation and the individuality of personal experience via memory and storytelling. A mixed media artist, Shara works with drawing, painting, photography, printmaking, found object, and installation. Shara studied a BFA in Drawing and Painting from Cal State Fullerton, a semester abroad at The Sorbonne and Otis Parsons School of Art and Design in Paris, a Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Studio at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MA in Art Education at the University of New Mexico. Shara has exhibited her art work in Southern and Northern California, Paris, Chicago and New Mexico. She currently lives and works in Oakland, California as an artist, art teacher and happy home maker.