Please join us from 5-7pm for an artist reception featuring Sha Sha Higby and Cindy Miracle whose works are exhibited as part of our November 2016 Art Exhibit. Sha Sha Higby’s work will be in the Theatre Gallery and Cindy Miracle will be in the Crescendo Gallery.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
SHA SHA HIGBY
International performance/sculptural artist, Sha Sha Higby is known for her evocative and haunting performances using the exquisite and ephemeral body sculpture she meticulously creates herself and moves within. Elaborate sculptural costume, dance , and puppetry explore magic and emotion, creating an atmospheric world within the borders between death and life. Higby started out making dolls and pursued the art of puppetry and sculpture in her early years which evolved into “moving sculpture.” Ms. Higby has performed her unique body of work throughout the United States, and internationally in Korea, Japan, Indonesia, Slovak, Bulgaria, Singapore, Australia, Switzerland, England, Belgium, Germany and Holland. She is the recipient of numerous grants and awards including the National Endowment for the Arts Solo Theater Artist Fellowship, The Zellerbach Family Fund, the California Arts Council New Genre Individual Artist Fellowship. She studied for one year in Japan in 1971, observing the art of Noh Mask and theater and then received a Fulbright-Hayes Scholarship to study dance & shadow puppet making and performance arts in Indonesia for 5 years at the Academy of Music, Central Java, Indonesia. In addition to traveling throughout Southeast Asia to Thailand and Myanmar (Burma), she received an Indo-American Fellowship to study the textile arts of India, and a Travel Grants Fund from Arts International to study in Bhutan.She has also recently studied lacquer arts in Tokyo and Kyoto, Japan through the auspices of the Japan-United States Friendship Commission.
CINDY MIRACLE
Cindy Miracle holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from Claremont Graduate School. She has taught courses in Fine Arts in numerous institutions, including San Jose State, De Anza Junior College, and The Gale Laurence Studio in San Francisco. Her artwork has been on exhibit in galleries and museums throughout the country, including the Renwick Gallery in the Smithsonian, Purdue University, Weber State College, Linhearst Gallery, USC, Barnsdale Park Art Gallery, Artspace in Los Angeles, and Cameraworks in San Francisco. Working in a variety of mediums, including oil, acrylic, casein, watercolor, encaustic, pen and ink, soft pastel and more recently exploring water soluble printmaking inks, she continues to explore new ways to use and combine a variety of mediums. She also teaches small, Intimate One day workshops and classes at her studio in Woodacre. Check website for dates and availability: www.cindymiracle.com Her artwork is available for viewing by appointment at both her studio in Sausalito (At the ICB # 335-A), or her home/studio in Woodacre. www.cindymiracle.com chmiracle@yahoo.com (415) 298-2787
