Sharon Webster is a visual artist, a poet, and helper of adults with cognitive challenges. Her work addresses the personal, celebrates the sensual, and believes in the mysteries of process. She is available to work as a teaching or visiting artist for any age group or developmental level.
Works like My Stitched Spine, Root, and Up Close at a Distance illustrate Sharon’s deeply felt visual storytelling and allegiance to the alchemy of healing.
Webster exhibits work frequently in Vermont and elsewhere. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Art Education and taught Studio Art and research writing for over a decade at Burlington College and Community College of Vermont in Winooski, VT. Sharon also holds a Master’s degree in Art History.
Webster’s book of poems and art, Everyone Lives Here, was published in 2014 by Fomite Press in Burlington, VT. Her new book, O Song, also features her poems and artwork, and is forthcoming from Fomite in late 2025. She enjoys giving poetry readings and is an enthusiastic fan of the oral connection and shared experience that spoken words provide.
Sharon worked for more than thirty-five years with developmentally challenged people, helping them to lead rich, normal lives (though she often felt they were teaching her). She does this work now on a volunteer basis.
