The selections by the judges for the 2011 Picture Black Friday Project have been announced. "Picture Black Friday is a photojournalism project that aims to revisit and analyze a combination of forces- a worsening economy, financial desperation, excitement, fear, and a distinctly American cultural tradition- that culminate the morning after Thanksgiving." You can check out my image, along with the others selected on the Picture Black Friday website.

I am honored to share that my project, "Sanctuary: Farm Animal Ambassadors" received second place in the professional category of the PhotoPhilanthropy Activist Awards. To get more info on PhotoPhilanthropy and to view the amazing projects submitted, click here.

LAL @ Loudoun House: Body | Figure | Nude
January 14 – March 11, 2012 (Opening Preview Party: January 13, 2012)
The nude takes new form in Body | Figure | Nude. Works selected for the exhibition deal with the subject of the body, figure or nude or they use the body, figure or nude as a metaphor or allegorical vehicle. Juried by Anna Brzyski (Chellgren Endowed Associate Professor of Art History and Visual Studies at University of Kentucky) and Becky Alley (LAL Exhibitions & Programs Director). More info here.

TCCA: Tuska Center for Contemporary Art
Opening Reception: January 19, 5-7:30pm
Exhibition Dates: January 19- February 19
The University of Kentucky Art Department Faculty Show will feature work from all of the full-time studio and art education faculty in the department.

It was a pleasure to jury the upcoming exhibition The ƒ-Stops Here which features photographs by Andee Rudloff, Emily Naff, Kay Ramming, Laura Carpenter, Stacey Irvin, and Wendy Whittemore. The artists’ reception will take place on December 10th from 6:00 – 9:00 p.m. More information can be found here.

"Sanctuary" is a solo exhibition of portraits of the amazing animal residents of farm animal sanctuaries. The exhibition is in the Nashville International Airport (ticketing-south) and is part of the Flying Solo exhibition series. The exhibit will be on view from from Sept. 13, 2011 through March 4, 2012. $100 from each photograph sold will be donated to the sanctuary where that particular animal resides.

Between Monday, September 26, 2011 at 12 a.m. to Sunday, October 23rd at 11:59 p.m. art will be interspersed among advertising. The location is in Chicago at East Bound Interstate 90 just after the highway crosses over Oakton Street. More information on the project can be found here.

The Masur Museum of Art Annual Juried Competition showcases contemporary artists throughout the United States of America. The competition was juried by Alison de Lima Greene, who is curator of Contemporary Art & Special Projects at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.Opening reception: Saturday May 7, 2011 from 6 – 8 p.m. / Juror Talk, 6:30 p.m. Exhibition dates: May 10 – July 16, 2011

Invitational Exhibition Celebrating International Women’s Day 1911 – 2011
March 5, 2011 through April 23, 2011
Opening Reception – Saturday, March 5 at 7pm

To read the article, click here.

An article about my "Sanctuary" exhibition was written by Michelle Jones of
The Tennessean. You can read the article here.

"Sanctuary" is a solo exhibition of portraits of the amazing animal residents of farm
animal sanctuaries. The exhibition will run from December 4, 2010 - until January 1, 2011. It will take place at Tinney Contemporary, which is located at 237 5th Avenue North in Nashville, TN 37219. I will be giving an artist talk on December 4th at 5pm. The opening and silent auction will take place on December 4th from 6-9pm. 20% of prints sales and 100% of proceeds from the silent auction will be donated to the sanctuaries.

Professional Development Support Grant from The Tennessee Arts Commission for my Farm Animal Sanctuary project solo exhibition this coming December.

"Deviations" is an exhibition of work by Derek Coté, Sharon Lee Hart, and Will Tucker in the Brownlee O. Currey, Jr. Gallery at Watkins College of Art, Design & Film. The closing reception is on Friday September 10th from 6-8pm.

On Friday, June 4, 5:30-8:00pm at the Hilton Santa Fe Historic Plaza.
Free and open to the public. More info on the CENTER website.

Portfolio Volume 4 Published, juried by Katherine Ware has been published and is available at The Center for Fine Art Photography website.

I am looking forward to attending Center's Review Santa Fe juried portfolio event this June.

Portfolio Show Case Volume 4 was juried by Katherine Ware and is on view at The Center for Fine Art Photography.

The website devoted to my Farm Animal Sanctuary Project is now live. I will be updating the site on a regular basis.

Portfolio Showcase Volume 4 is on display in the online gallery starting March 1, 2010. The book will be released in May 2010.
Portfolio Showcase Volume 4: Book and Online Exhibition

This exhibition will run from December 5, 2009 through January 30, 2010 at Tinney Contemporary in downtown Nashville, TN. In addition to regular hours, the gallery will be open for the December 5th, 2009 Art Crawl from 6-9pm.

The SPE Crossroads Exhibition is part of the Society of Photographic Education Southeast Regional Conference and Atlanta Celebrates Photography in Atlanta, Georgia.
Exhibit runs from Monday October 12th to Friday October 23
Exhibition Opening Reception: Sat, Oct 17, 6pm - 9pm

The Estel Gallery "Be a Doll" exhibition features female artists who explore through their artwork themes of what it means to be a woman in today's world, how women see themselves, or what women want to be.
The show runs June 4 - July 25, 2009. The opening reception will be June 6, 2009
from 6-9 pm during Nashville's First Saturday Gallery Crawl.

Scholarship and artist residency at Ox-Bow- Summer 2009

Tinney Contemporary
Stop, Look, Listen: New Works by Sharon Lee Hart, Lyle Carbajal, and Jason Lascu
Exhibition dates: February 7th through March 14th
Opening: Saturday February 7th from 6-9pm

Check out the new zoom feature on this website. The zoom will allow you to click the normal size images and see a larger detailed version.

At Flanders 311 from December 2, 2008-February 1, 2009
An exhibit of works inspired by and examining Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. The artist reception will be held from 6-9 p.m. on Friday, December 5.

I am excited to announce that I was recently awarded the Carter Foundation Scholarship. This scholarship is given through the Maine Media Workshops located in beautiful Rockport, Maine. This award will enable me to attend an advanced digital photography workshop.

"The strategy that Sharon Lee Hart (Wake Forest) effectively employs in her two pieces - the show’s most interesting photo-based works - is a digital variation of photomontage. In The Spectators, she combines several different images to create a creepy, goggle-eyed mask with a manually subdued alligator emerging from its wide-open mouth.
Against the ominously dark backdrop of her panoramic Cut-to-Fit, fragments of printed text are superimposed on images of variously attired women posed with symbolically evocative objects, including a rifle, a barbell, a mirror and a fold-out fan".
By Tom Patterson
Winston Salem Journal Columnist