Sophia Dawson 551 E93 Street Brooklyn, N.Y. 11236 Phone: 347.528.4322 Email: iamwetpaint@gmail.com Website: www.ilovewetpaint.com

EDUCATION • New York University, Masters Program in Visual Arts Administration 2011-2013 • School of Visual Arts, Bachelors in Fine Arts 2006-2010 • Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music and Performing Arts 2002-2006 EXHIBITIONS

• Color Bars* March 2015

Rush Arts Gallery New York, N.Y. • Jamaica’s National Gallery Biennial December 2014

Jamaica’s National Art Gallery Kingston, Jamaica • The Belletrix Exhibit March 2013

Raw Space Culture Gallery New York, N.Y. • Expressive Visualization February 2014

AC-BAW Center for the Arts Mount Vernon, N.Y. • Outside the Lines February 2014

Hamilton Landmark Galleries New York, N.Y. • Affirmation* July 2013

Habana Outpost Brooklyn, N.Y. • Fountain Art Fair March 2013

69th Regiment Armory/ Rush Arts Gallery New York, N.Y. • Current Events: Justice for the Central Park 5* February 2013

Impeccable Attire Brooklyn, N.Y. • All Power to the People* November 2011

Corridor Gallery Brooklyn, N.Y. • Black Panther Film Festival* 2010-2013

Maysles Cinema New York, N.Y. • New New York Art September 2010

School of Visual Arts Gallery New York, N.Y. • Black August Art Show August 2010

The Brecht Forum New York, N.Y. • Synergy May 2010

Dumbo Arts Center Brooklyn, N.Y. • WET PAINT February 2009

The Heath Gallery New York, N.Y. RESIDENCIES Snug Harbor Current Arts East New York Spring/ Summer 2015 PROJECTS Lead Artist/ Ideal Glass 2014 • Developed a mural that explores the issue of police brutality both past and present. • Led a social media campaign encouraging people to visit the mural and share their thoughts and feelings on the

issue of police brutality. Teaching Artist/ Artistic Noise Current • Instructed art workshops for teenage participants. • Encouraged participants (youth members of the Children Aid Society) to realize their individual artistic

strengths and potentials. • Developed mural designs developed from youth designs.

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Lead Artist/ Groundswell 2010-Current *Instructed art workshops for teenage participants. *Encouraged participants to realize their individual artistic strengths and potentials. *Collaborated with teen participants and chef Jacques Pepin to develop a mural for the International Culinary

Center. *Collaborated with teen participants to design and create a fifteen-foot mosaic mural to promote the Brooklyn

Public Library’s Sunset Park branch. * Collaborated with teen participants to design, paint, and install a mural on parachute cloth for the Lutheran

Medical Center. *Collaborated with various community partners to develop designs for each project. Lead Muralist/ Peoples’ Justice 2013 *Collaborated with staff and members of Picture the Homeless and Peoples’ Justice to develop a large scale mural on the theme “Know Your Rights” *Instructed art workshops and brainstorming sessions with individuals from both organizations. *Organized and led “Community Painting Day” with over 81 volunteers. *Developed strategy to use mural as educational tool postproduction. Lead Muralist/ Bailey’s Cafe 2013 *Collaborated with faculty of Paul Robeson High School and members of the Church of St. Luke and St.

Matthew’s to develop a large scale mural *Instructed art workshops and brainstorming sessions with individuals from both organizations. *Organized and led “Community Painting Day” with volunteers INTERNSHIPS The Brecht Forum/ Program Intern 2011 *Developed work plan for internship program with high school participants from DRUM (Desis Rising Up and Moving). The work plan combined African American history with art-making workshops to help teen participants explore the theme “Black August”, a celebration of black history in the month of August. *Instructed art workshops and guided teen participants of different skill levels in developing a zine to be distributed at the organization’s culminating Annual Black August Art Exhibition. *Designed art exhibition flyer and other online promotional items. Taught teen participants grassroots strategies in promotion and marketing for the event. *Curated the Annual Black August Art Exhibition (2011) with works from over 20 artists of color.

PUBLICATIONS *Dawson Sisters Making Moves, SAY IT LOUD! Magazine 2005 *The Art of Sophia Dawson, SAY IT LOUD! Magazine 2009 AWARDS/SCHOLARSHIPS *Artist, Leader, Visionary Honor (Picture the Homeless) 2013 *Brooklyn’s Extraordinary Women Award (District Attorney Charles J. Hynes) 2013 *New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Artist as Entrepreneur Scholarship 2010 *School of Visual Arts Uplifting Art Competition 2nd Place 2008 *Scholastic Art Award, Gold Key 2005