Living and Sustaining a Creative Life

Sharon Louden is a practicing, professional artist who lives and works in New York, NY. Her work has been exhibited at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, the Drawing Center, Weisman Art Museum, Birmingham Museum of Art, Weatherspoon Art Museum and the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, among other venues, and it is held in public collections such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, Weatherspoon Art Museum and the National Gallery of Art. For more information, visit http://www.livesustain.org/sharon-louden/.

• PREFACE Sharon LoudenINTRODUCTIONCarter E. Foster ESSAYSAdrienne Outlaw Amanda Church Amy Pleasant Annette Lawrence Austin Thomas Beth Lipman Blane De St. Croix Brian Novatny Brian TolleCarson Fox David Humphrey Ellen Harvey Erik Hanson George StollJay Davis Jennifer DaltonJenny MarketouJulie BlackmonJulie HeffernanJulie LangsamJustin QuinnKarin DavieKate ShepherdLaurie HoginMaggie Michael and Dan SteinhilberMaureen ConnorMelissa PotterMichael WaughMichelle GrabnerPeter DrakePeter NewmanRichard KleinSean MellynSharon L. ButlerThe Art GuysThomas KilpperTimothy NolanTony IngrisanoWill CottonCONCLUSIONEd Winkleman and Bill Carroll

'Sharon Louden has invaluably gathered together in this book an exceptionally diverse range of artists’ experiences in order to illustrate, in a manner otherwise inaccessible, the inherent tensions that artists face in constantly balancing their drive to devote core time and energy to creating new work and their wish to share that work with the world with the complexities, as well as the joys, of their personal and family lives.'