A little about Sharon Benedict:

BFA 1972, MFA 1975, Post grad teaching certification in Special Education

She has  taught art (Drawing, Art for the differently abled, Gourd art and Life drawing) at the Springfield Art Museum as well as many other locations for many years. Sharon was a member of the Ohio Plain Air Painters for one year. Primarily, she has been a gourd artist (pyrography) and drawer and have won many awards at the Ohio Gourd festival over the years. Sharon is  currently the Out Reach Manager for the Greene Co. Public Library.  She gardens as a hobby, and plays violin in the orchestra at the church in Clifton.