About

Sharon Louden is an artist, educator, and advocate for artists, as well as the editor of three books:  Living and Sustaining a Creative Life: Essays by 40 Working Artists  (2013), The Artist as Culture Producer: Living and Sustaining a Creative Life (March 1, 2017), and Last Artist Standing: Living and Sustaining a Creative Life Over 50.

Published by Intellect Books (UK) and distributed by University of Chicago Press, these timely publications reveal the realities of today's artists and culture producers. Each comprises a collection of essays by contemporary visual artists in United States and abroad, generously sharing their first-hand stories and models of creative lives. These 111 artists provide exceptional insight learned over the years that has helped them evolve, sustain and thrive as professional artists working today.

Finally, Intellect Books is also publishing the “Living and Sustaining a Creative Life” series of books  over a 10 year period starting in 2022.  As the Senior Editor of this series, Sharon Louden has been selecting editors who will choose contributors to their books, all to be distributed by University of Chicago Press, including Writing, Art History, Music, Academia in the Arts, Writing, FEMINIST, Craft and more.