Sharon Louden

@naylandblake.bsky.social speaking with Susanna Coffey moderated by @sharonlouden.bsky.social at the Al Hd Foundation today 🥰

Susanna Coffey: One of the last artists standing Last Artist Standing, Sharon Louden’s compelling new anthology, features essays by a selection of artists who have managed to pass 50 and still make art. Such persistence and durability are especia…

THANK YOU @sharonbutler.bsky.social & @twocoatsofpaint.com for your generous review of "Last Artist Standing: Living and Sustaining a Creative Life over 50" and featuring artist-contributor #SusannaCoffey's powerful essay. It is definitely worth reading! twocoatsofpaint.com/2026/01/susa...

#SanFrancisco #Oakland #BayArea friends: I highly recommend attending tonight’s opening at #MunicipalBonds featuring work of my dear friend @austinthomasartist.bsky.social. Austin is an artist/writer/connector/& ever generous. Go see this show & meet her in person!
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Look what's coming your way, New York! Stop by for an evening of fantastic conversation between @sharonlouden.bsky.social & artists Martha Wilson and Nina Kuo, plus @hyperallergic.com's new Editor-in-Chief, Hakim Bishara. 7pm start time. Ticket needed...#LiveSustain

Teach it - Promote it - Create it - you are responsible for the continuation of the culture you love. Keep it alive through your actions.

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

You're invited!

On Tuesday, 30 September 30 2025, Sharon Louden will lead a panel conversation exploring the challenges and rewards of sustaining a creative life.

The event will take place at 6PM in The Global Education Center at 4822 Charlotte Avenue #3, Nashville, Tn 37209.

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So love!!!

Freedom Tower to reopen after two years and a multi-million dollar restoration Hundreds of antique items — a wedding dress, a bag of marbles, guayaberas, a stuffed toy, a record player, a postcard, treasured photos, and a crucifix — are on display in collections that make up the...

This just dropped, which mentions @sharonlouden.bsky.social's piece, "Windows of Freedom Tower" by name. We are so honored to be part of such an important project! --> www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...

Join Sharon Louden on her Fall book tour starting 26 September 2025.

Find out more about the tour here👉ow.ly/PYVf50X0aLH

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Activist Tamara Lanier joins Hrag Vartanian, editor in chief and co-founder of Hyperallergic, in a conversation about From These Roots, her book that describ... Art Talk: Tamara Lanier's Fight with Harvard to #FreeRenty

After Harvard questioned her genealogy and refused to return exploitative photos of her enslaved great-great-great-grandfather Papa Renty, Tamara Lanier fought back and won. Watch her discuss the battle and her memoir with @hrag.bsky.social in the Book Talk we did with ICA LA.

I recommend listening to this conversation—it reinforces that the arts are at the heart of human expression. If more people recognized how essential the arts are to our well-being, we’d live fuller lives—and artists would be paid what they’re worth.
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Not arguing with people is self-care

Congratulations!

Take a look at this flick through of Last Artist Standing: Living and Sustaining a Creative Life over 50 edited by @sharonlouden.bsky.social

It features 31 artists over 50 who’ve sustained creative lives through decades of change.

👉https://www.intellectbooks.com/last-artist-standing

Ages 0-4 are the most important, emotionally & intellectually, in human development.

Yet, in the US, we have a very high rate of childhood poverty and a broken child care system.

Congratulations to New Mexico for leading the way forward for high quality, free child care. Other states must follow.

Hey @svlocke.bsky.social just read your essay in @sharonlouden.bsky.social’s book Last Artist Standing. I so appreciated your clear honesty in telling your story. Thank you.

On this episode of In Conversation, James Campbell is joined by Sharon Louden to discuss her new book, Last Artist Standing: Living and Sustaining a Creative Life over 50 due to be released on 16 May 2025

Watch the episode here 👉youtu.be/Fm4fQCOOTjo

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I’m so thrilled and grateful you are a part of it. Thank you so much.

A paperback book titled "Last Artist Standing" edited by Sharon Louden

Glad to have my copy of "Last Artist Standing: Living and Sustaining a Creative Life After 50", by @sharonlouden.bsky.social . My essay focuses on my relationship to debt. This book is a real resource with so much compiled wisdom.

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Disgusting. There is a place in hell for people like her.

Join me tomorrow night at the Frist Art Museum in Nashville as I introduce the 2024-25 CECA TN Artist Fellow, Stacy Kranitz, before her talk about her work and creative practice. 6:30p in the Rechter Room. free and open to the public.

Yay!

Watch Sharon Louden discuss the role of women in the arts in this short clip.

Full In Conversation is coming soon, along with her latest book, Last Artist Standing: Living and Sustaining a Creative Life Over 50.

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Alan K. Simpson, a Folksy Republican Force in the Senate, Dies at 93 A plain-spoken lawmaker from Wyoming, he balanced his conservative views with moderate stands on abortion rights, gay marriage and immigration reform.

Although controversial times, I followed his career & loved his spunk & spirit. Got to spend an evening w/him back in 2018 in Laramie during the 25th anniversary gala of the UWY Art Museum and opening of a new installation by @sharonlouden.bsky.social --> what a life! www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/u...

Nick Cave Is Serving You Everything Hrag Vartanian interviews the artist in his Chicago studio about his childhood, his evolving craft, and what he does to stay optimistic during difficult times.

My podcast with artist Nick Cave is up. We talk about his his childhood, his love of fashion, and what he does to stay optimistic during difficult times.

Fantastic! I will buy more here! Just DM’d you my address. THANK YOU!

A postcard (stamped using old stamps in many denominations) reading: The US Postal Service: Is not motivated by profit. Is mandated to provide service to every zip code including affordable service for rural areas. Is used for mail-in ballots. Is in the Constitution. (Read: ArtI.S8.C7.1 for historical background on postal power. Promotes Diversity and Inclusion: Employees are 21% African-American; 8% Hispanic; 8% Asian-American/Pacific Islander; .67% American Indian or Alaska Native. You can: Use USPS for shipping. Buy stamps and use them. Order from businesses that ship with USPS. Stop ordering from Amazon. Call your Representatives. Find your reps by using www.5calls.org. Tell postal workers you love them. Tell postal workers you have their backs.

A postcard that reads: "TRUMP wants to KILL the US POSTAL SERVICE Say NO to USPS PRIVATIZATION" sitting on top of a bunch of stamped backs of the same postcard.

Send me your mailing address in the chat and I'll mail you this postcard. My wife's late uncle left tons of unused old stamps. This is not just about you getting it, but about all of the postal workers who'll see it. And if you live in a super fucking Republican area, I really want to send you one!