Sharon Koskoff is a full time professional artist known for her Decometric murals, conceptual installations, giant puppets, environmental designs, children's programming and love of architecture. As fine arts major of sculpture and photography, she received a cum laude Bachelor of Arts degree from Brooklyn College, and a second degree in Color Theory from the New York School of Interior Design. Koskoff taught at the Armory Art Center for fifteen years and is currently teaching at Old School Square. She is also a well known lecturer on the architectural stylings of Twentieth Century design. Koskoff is the founding president of the historic preservation organization Art Deco Society of the Palm Beaches, and a past vice president of the Artists' Guild of the Norton Museum. She serves as a Palm Beach Post Pathfinder Award judge for high school art students. Koskoff enjoys working on both public and private commissions while designing needlepoint for her own company, New York Needlecraft!

Currently on view is the Community Chair Project, 12 Adirondack Chairs painted by 30 Volunteers on display in the Cultural Loop of Delray Beach, sporting Delray Beach icons.

Koskoff just completed eight murals at UB Kinsey/Palmview School of the Arts,
seven murals at Roosevelt Elementary School and three murals at Discovery Key Elementary School.. Her seventy panel "Timeline Collage" entitled 350 Years of Jewish History in America will be on display at the JCC in Boynton through 2005.

Sharon has recently completed three large murals at Greenacres Elementary School, a Chinese New Year mural for the Palm Beach Zoo at Dreher Park and a seven-hole miniature golf course installation for First Night 2004 Delray Beach Celebration. Her "Gator Calculator" was positioned in front of the Clematis Street Fountain. Koskoff's Delray Beach Cultural Loop
Open Door Project 2003-4 installation, displaying 111 Doors painted by community artists was a huge success. WXEL-TV featured the Doors on South Florida Today.

Sharon Koskoff is the only artist on record to receive eight consecutive grants from the
Palm Beach County Cultural Council for the Neighborhood in Artist Residency Program (NARP). This award funded group art projects in multicultural areas. The results of these efforts have been the public murals in Delray Beach known as the Community Mural Projects. Koskoff has also painted over 125 murals in twenty five Palm Beach County Public Schools.

In 2002 and 2003, Koskoff worked with ten community school/organizations, each creating a fourteen-foot tall giant puppet to march in the annual Delray People's Procession Parade.

In 2000, Koskoff appeared on the nationally televised Home & Garden HGTV network program Modern Masters. A Coney Island themed mural environment she designed in a
nine- seat "home theatre" in Admiral's Cove, Jupiter premiered on the Sunday evening show.

Sharon Koskoff loves to create living floral installations. She is well known for designing a
seventy-five foot flower "float" using 15,000 live impatiens for the Delray Beach Flower Festival in the years 2000 and 2003. Her live "Flower Bed" installation at the Showtel 2004 exhibition held at Hotel Biba was rewarded with a TV interview on WCTN, Channel 15.

Koskoff has taught art classes and workshops in many educational facilities as the
Norton Museum of Art, Boca Museum of Art, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art,
Palm Beach Community College, Vero Museum of Art, Edna Hibel Museum, Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale, Lynn University, and public libraries etc.

The City Commission has appointed Koskoff to the Delray Beach Public Arts Committee.

Sharon and her family moved from Brooklyn, NY to Delray Beach, FL in 1985.
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