CURRICULUM VITA
SHERYL HALER
Faculty, FILM Department
Ringling College of Art and Design
REVELATION: Collaborative Film Project / Topic Climate Change 2021-2023
Creative Conversations with both Selby Gardens / Spanish Point and The Ringling Museum about A FACULTY / STUDENT COLLABORATIVE PROJECT: An abstract narrative short film exploring the dangers of climate change as four “mythical birds” reveal the disastrous effects the destruction of the natural environment is having on humanity.
This is a project being developed as a collaboration with FILM STUDENTS (director, producer, cinematography, editor, gaffer, drone operator), FACULTY (originator / costume designer), a musical composer, a Shakespeare scholar/actor for voiceover, stilt performers, a performer/choreographer, a sound designer, and the possible locations to include Ringling Museum and/or Spanish Point.
THE FOG: PUPPET PERFORMANCE FOR CHILDREN. 2021
THE SUMMER 2021 – Research / Design / Exploration of Materials / Construction of 6 working puppet prototypes for a theatrical production adapted from the children’s book: THE FOG
BIRD PUPPETS are to be used by actors in a variety of settings to tell the story of Climate Change to children in ages from pre-school through middle school. PUPPETS needed to be very visual and easy to manipulate by actors – not professional puppeteers. The PUPPETS were going to be constructed by Ringling design students, so I also prepared demonstration materials, scheduling and materials budgets.
THE FALL 2021 – The Fog is an interdisciplinary theatre-for-young-audiences production, to be conceived through collaboration with the new Entertainment Design program and FILM Departments at Ringling College of Art and Design, the Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies Dept. at New College of Florida, and local theatre artists. The Fog is a proposal for a new activity with local arts organizations.
The PROJECT received a MELLON FOUNDATION GRANT through New College (supported by the CROSS-COLLEGE ALLIANCE).
THE RHINO PROJECT : HUMAN | NATURE. 2018-2020
After two years of pre-production, a collaborative DANCE / FILM project at the RINGLING MUSEUM was completed with a Composer from the Berklee School of Music (Eric Berry, two Choreographers from New College (Eugenia Titterington and Leymis Bolanos Wilmott), CJ Julian Faculty / Cinematographer, student dancers from New College and Ringling FILM students (Director / Trustee Scholar Michael Boomer, Editor / Colorist Mike Lee, and a crew of incredible FILM students). I designed and made all of the costumes, as well as creating the original narrative for the project, but the project was created as an equal collaboration between a group Faculty and Students
The RHINO PROJECT was seen as a live performance at the RINGLING MUSEUM, repeated as a live performance at NEW COLLEGE, and the film was first screened at NEW COLLEGE (with an accompanying exhibition of the costumes.)
The PROJECT received a MELLON FOUNDATION GRANT through New College (supported by the CROSS-COLLEGE ALLIANCE).
DALI AT SELBY GARDENS – DANCE COSTUMES 2020
Completed costumes for the Sarasota Contemporary Dance Company for their performance at the opening of the DALI EXHIBITION at SELBY GARDENS GALA. The Artistic Director, Leymis Wilmott, would like to continue such collaborations.
CONTINUING PROJECTS
FEMALE OF THE SPECIES: Sculpture / Installation / Film Project for Exhibition 2021-2024
Am working on a series of sculptures, narrative wall pieces and costumes / film that addresses the female perspective of the world.
BACK TO THE GARDEN. Solo Exhibition, Gallery PS340, Sarasota, FL, January 2021.
Planting / Growing / Tree / Knowledge / Eden / Paradise / Reap What We Sow
Through the lens of now, going BACK TO THE GARDEN is reconnecting with nature, with culture, with religion, with science, with myth, with history, with knowledge, with the origin of our true self and our better angels.
VIDEO INTERVIEW WITH ANN ALBRITON
COLLABORATION WITH ART IN THE COMMUNITY – POETRY AND VISUAL ART. 2021
ART IN COMMON PLACES – The mission is to put art, in the form of broadsides that combine images and words, in public places—such as laundromats, public housing, car washes, medical offices—so people can enjoy it in their everyday lives.
EXHIBITIONS
WILD. LIFE. STILL. LIFE. Installation / Group Exhibition, M.Chapel Projects, Sarasota, FL, December 2017.
International Fiber Arts VIII Exhibition, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, California, December 2017.
Show Your World, AWARD FOR FIRST PLACE, ReArtiste at Gallery MC, New York NY, November 2016.
Solo Exhibit, Manatee Theater and Visual Arts Center, Bradenton FL, August 2015.
Primum Non Nocere, Mason-Scharfenstein Museum of Art, Piedmont College, Demorest GA.
August 2012
Second Annual Juried Exhibition, The Florida Museum for Women Artists, Tallahassee, FL.
September 2011
XYZ, Basch Gallery, Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL. September 2011.
XYZ, Englewood Art Center, Englewood, FL. May 2011.
XYZ, Hillsboro College Gallery, Ybor City, FL. March 2011.
Genuine Artificial, collaboration with students, Willis A. Smith Gallery, Ringling College
of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL. March 2010.
PschizoFlorida, Navel Gazing, Brevard Art Museum, Melbourne, FL. January 2010.
Re-Art Exhibition, Manatee Art Center, Bradenton, FL. Summer 2009.
OHH! WATER Exhibition, invitational South Florida Museum, Bradenton, FL. Collaboration. April 2009.
Penland Exhibition, Penland Gallery, Penland, NC. June 2008.
Cosmix, South Florida Museum, Bradenton, FL. Collaboration. April 2008
Concurrent Exhibition for CONVERGENCE International Conference – Fiber. Collaboration.
Selby Gallery. June 2008.
Textile Sojourns, Kimball Art Center, Park City, UT. June 2006
Out of the Ordinary: Materials and Metaphors, Sarasota Visual Arts Center, Sarasota, FL. March 2005
Undercurrents / Overview, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL. July 2004
White Linen, Women’s group exhibition, The Bradenton Art Center, Bradenton, FL. May 2004
Searching for the Thirteenth Moon: A Lunar Book of Days, an edited collection of stories / works of women sharing their insights, Kentucky Foundation for Women, NM. (2002 -2004)
Memory, Moment, Memento, Two Person Show, Mira Mar Gallery, Sarasota, FL. December, 2000
Selected Mappings: a Journey into Earthscapes, Two-Person Exhibition, Crossley Galley, Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL. May 2000
Goddesses and Nature, Two-Person Exhibition, Louisville Visual Art Center, Louisville, KY. July 1999
Muse of the Millennium, Juror - Lloyd Herman, Founding Director of Renwick Gallery, Nordic Heritage Museum, Seattle, WA. March 1998
Contemporary Goddesses, Fine Arts Center Gallery, Augusta State University, Augusta, GA. March 1998
PUBLIC ART EXPERIENCE
COLLABORATION WITH ART IN THE COMMUNITY – POETRY AND VISUAL ART. 2021
ART IN COMMON PLACES – The mission is to put art, in the form of broadsides that combine images and words, in public places—such as laundromats, public housing, car washes, medical offices—so people can enjoy it in their everyday lives.
Collaborative Installation – with glass artist and video artist. Crossley Gallery, Sarasota, FL. February 2007
A-dressing an Issue, Collaborative Performance with performance artist and Ringling students, Sarasota, FL. March 2004
Great Bear Affair, Sculpture as Public Art, Whitefish, MT. Summer 2002 (work auctioned for charity)
On the Wind - an installation of remembrance and response to September 11, Ringling Campus, Sarasota, FL. September 2001
Memorial Bison Installation, National Bison Range, Moiese, MT., May 1999
B.L.T. - Not Just Another Sandwich, Collaborative Performance with performance artist, Historic Asolo Theater, Sarasota FL. Oct 1998
"In the Dark", "Pharse Ritual", and "Souvenir", Collaborative Performances with performance artist , Andersen Ranch, Snowmass, CO. Aug 1998
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Tampa Hospital, Afrika Journey. August 2007
English Speaking Union, New York. March 2005
Great Bear Affair, Whitefish, Montana. September 2002
Moose on the Loose, Whitefish, Montana. 2000