Shoshanna Ahart and Basil

 

 Originally from Illinois, Shoshanna attended Marietta College in Ohio where she received a BA in Art/Honors in Art, with a minor in Theatre. In 1988, Shoshanna moved to Washington DC to attend American University and after receiving her MFA in Painting, opened her Georgetown art studio in 1991. From 2000 until August 2003, Ahart’s artwork was represented by Touchstone Gallery located in downtown Washington. During her 15 year tenure in Washington DC, Ahart taught both painting and drawing and was an invited Guest Artist-Lecturer to a number of institutions, including The National Building Museum. In addition, she worked as a graphic designer and illustrator. And, utilizing her theatrical background worked as a freelance Properties designer, designing productions in Illinois and Washington, DC. In September 2003, Shoshanna left Washington and now resides in Germany. The Ahart Atelier is located just outside Munich in the town of Eichstätt which is known for its stunning baroque architecture.

In 1992, Shoshanna was one of three artists chosen from a nationwide competition to receive a Career Advancement in the Visual Arts (CAVA) Fellowship from the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts in Miami, Florida. As a CAVA Fellow, she spent four months for three consecutive years as an Artist-in-Residence in South Beach, the historic Art Deco District of Miami Beach, Florida. At the end of the residency period, the Foundation funded an exhibition in Miami of Ahart's work, which featured the Miami Beach Deco District.

 

Shoshanna has been a Guest-Artist-in-Residence to Germany three times through the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts' International Exchange Competition. She received the first of these residencies in 1995, when she spent six weeks at the Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus in southern Germany. The second international residency took Ahart to Schloss Plüschow, near the Baltic Coast in northeastern Germany. In 1998, she received a joint invitation from the Virginia Center and the Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus to return to Schwandorf, Germany as Guest-Artist-in-Residence. Within the 10-year history of the International Exchange, Shoshanna is the only American artist to have been selected twice.

Roof-Garden

 
Shoshanna working on location in Germany

Shoshanna Ahart's various awards and Artist residencies include:

  • DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities, 2000 Small Projects Program Award, Washington, DC;
  • Artist-in-Residence, 1995 and 1998, Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus, Schwandorf, Germany;
  • Artist-in-Residence 1997, Mecklenburgisches Künstlerhaus, Schloss Plüschow, Plüschow, Germany;
  • National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, CAVA Fellowship, 1992 - 94, Miami, Florida;
  • Marietta College, 1994 Outstanding Young Alumna Award, Marietta, Ohio;
  • 1992 Artist Residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts;
  • A 1991 Ludwig Vogelstein Award for the Visual Arts, New York, New York.

 

 

Webmaster