Professor of Art Sherry Lee Short to be featured in one-person exhibition “Entwined” at Rourke Museum and Gallery

Professor of Art Sherry Lee Short to be featured in one-person exhibition “Entwined” at Rourke Museum and Gallery

Professor of Art, Sherry Lee Short, will be featured at the Rourke Museum and Gallery in a one-person exhibition. Curated by a School of Art alum, Tobias Zikmund, it is titled “Entwined.” The exhibition opens on January 12th from 6:30-8:00 p.m. for members, and on January 14th, there is an opening for the general public from 1:30-3:30; Short will give an artist’s talk that day at 2 p.m. in the main gallery.

Short received her Master of Fine Arts in Painting with Distinction from the University of Georgia in 1988. Following, she taught part-time in the School of Art at Minnesota State University Moorhead while also serving as the Director of the Women’s Network of the Red River Valley. During the late 1990s, she stepped out of the arts and committed her focus to working as Director of the Minnkota AIDS Project, an agency that served persons affected by HIV and AIDS in 47 counties in Minnesota and North Dakota. In 2001, she returned to MSUM as a full-time faculty member in the School of Art.

At MSUM, Short has taught drawing and illustration, feminist studies courses, and topical courses on art and social justice. She served as Director of Women’s and Gender Studies from 2012-2014 and as Chair of the School of Art from 2020-22. She also founded the Scientific Illustration program. She is currently in her final year of teaching.