Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

Use Restrictions

There are no restrictions.

Preferred Citation

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Sharon E. Sutton Artwork, Ms2001-036, Special Collections, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Va.

Acquisition Information

Susana Torre donated Sharon Sutton's prints July 28, 2000.

Alternative Form Available

See also the IAWA Biographical Database .

See also VT Imagebase for digital representations of Sutton's artwork.

Processing Information

Sutton's artwork was added to the IAWA Small Collections Ms2009-054 in September 2009.

Biographical Information

As a Professor of Architecture and Urban Design and Planning at the University of Washington, Sharon E. Sutton taught community-based research studios and evaluated the relationship and youth, culture and the environment. She is the Director of CEED (Center for Environment, Education, and Design Studies) and was funded by the Aspen Institute to investigate how race effects community development. Since 1975 Sutton has taught at various Universities including the Pratt Institute, Columbia University, and the University of Michigan, where she became the first African American woman to become a full professor in an accredited architectural degree program. While at the University of Michigan, Sutton established the Urban Network which is the basis for Sutton's latest book, Weaving a Tapestry of Resistance: The Places, Power and Poetry of a Sustainable Society.

Scope and Content

The collection is a set of three 5.5" x 10.5" Sutton prints and a one-page biography of Sutton.

Related Material

See also the IAWA Small Collections. Finding aid available on the Virginia Heritage database.

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