Sharon is an affiliate professor in the Visual Art Program teaching courses in printmaking and art appreciation. She holds a BFA from the University of South Dakota and an MFA from Tyler School of Art at Temple University studying at their campuses in Rome, Italy and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She has exhibited in numerous group and solo shows with work in the collections of the Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Arts in Denver, Colorado and Museo Aeronautico in Rome, Italy as well as corporate and private collections in 20 states. She has received over a dozen best of show, best of printmaking, and merit awards at juried fine art festivals around the United States.
Strasburg is a printmaker best known for her sensitive and richly luminous monotypes that are serene meditations on landscape. Always exploring the innovative possibilities of printmaking, Strasburg is currently using a laser to cut her works on paper into organic shapes abstracted from map and landscape imagery. The cut shapes are reassembled on wood panels to create soothingly complex compositions invoking both journey and place.
