is a multi-faceted artist who works in multiple areas of the arts. She is an award-winning painter in oil, ink and mixed media and her innovative, modern stained glass is included in the Glastar Gallery collection. A classically trained singer, she has sung solo recitals, operas, oratorios and cabaret in the United States and abroad and was a finalist in such competitions as the Liederkranz, MidAmerica, and the Metropolitan Opera Auditions. Shauna’s poems and opera libretti have been set to music by numerous composers and her concert, “New Growth”, of spoken poems and new songs at Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, which included a world premiere, a New York premiere and settings of her own poems, was a critically acclaimed, sold out event. She can be heard on Albany Records. A graduate of Columbia Business School (MBA), she writes business plans for not-for-profit organizations on a free-lance basis and has consulted on a wide variety of artistic and creative projects. An External Advisory Board and founding member of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Past President of the Greenwich Art Society, Shauna lives in Old Greenwich, CT and on Lake Waramaug in New Preston, CT with her husband, Robert Hackney. In her spare time, she enjoys playing the cello. |
Contact me: shauna@shaunaholiman.com
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My work synthesizes a lifetime of artistic endeavor in multiple areas: music, writing, theatre and the fine arts. Each requires an attentiveness – to detail, technique, material and emotional response - that makes a connection with an idea that I need or want to express. On a fundamental level, I find no difference between art forms. I make music with color; I paint what I hear; I find singing in words. It all comes from the same place and feeds an ever hungry inner core. I look for new techniques so I can “let the beast out” through whatever means are at hand: music, paint, glass, food, fonts, fabric – my life, all of it. A certain enthusiasm wells up enabling inspiration to grow. I look carefully, figure out how to get at it, work it over, change and play with it until it “works” and then I run as far as I can with it. I love to learn and especially enjoy working collaboratively. It is a most intoxicating kind of fun and I am addicted to the creative process. |
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