Selected Program Development

Founding Program Director:
Masters of Fine Arts in Illustration Practice
Maryland Institute College of Art [MICA], Baltimore, MD, 2011–present

Ms Sherman’s template for this graduate program was The Lab, a class she created while Chair of Undergraduate Illustration. Focusing on “the artist as entrepreneur”, The Lab, was an advanced course of independent research and development taking one idea or theme as fully as possible, including prototyping, documenting and/or exhibiting and marketing. Students would expand their idea envisioning it as integrated and important to the visual language of the 21st century. Weekly presentations on and by author/entrepreneurs, research seminars, fabrication workshops and field trips in addition to independent work would be done in a dedicated space designed to support the student. This class was designed for illustrators and other students who wished to take an idea out to existing and emerging market places.

Co-founder: Master of Arts in Illustration 
MICA, 2018

Chair: Undergraduate Illustration  
MICA, 2000–2010

Event Producer: Social Response: Jerelle Kraus and Luba Lukova 
ICON5, NY, 2008

Event Producer: Society of Illustrators/Illustration House Tour 
with guides Stephanie Plunkett [Norman Rockwell Museum], Walt Reed [Illustration House], anf Terence Brown [Director Emeritus Society of Illustrators] 
ICON5, NY, 2008

Event Producer: Book Lovers Tour 
San Francisco Center for the Book & One Heart Press
ICON4, San Francisco, 2005

Event Producer: Eisenstadt Tour 
private collection of American illustration in San Jose, CA,
ICON4, San Francisco, 2005

Selected Artist Residencies & Lectures at MICA

Coordinator:
Gizem Vural : Critiques + Limited Edition book [upcoming]
Lunchtime Lecture Series : Julia Rothman, Chip Waas, Box Brown, Neil Swaab, Marcellus Hall, George Bates, Joann Hill, Jude Buffum, Aya Kakeda, Alex Citrin, Chris Sickels, James Ransome, Christopher Darling, Tim O’Brien, Tim Gough, Shadra Strickland, Martha Rich, Brendan Leach, Mark Todd + Esther Pearl Watson, Ray Jones, Jordan Sondler, Paige Vickers, Tim Corman, Rebecca Bradley, Margherita Urbani, Selina Alko + Sean Qualls, Jenny Kroik, Carin Berger, Marcos Chin, Benjamin Marra, Taylor Fischer, Fran Krause, Adam Wallacavage.
Mark Todd + Esther Pearl Watson : Zine Machine Workshop
Ross MacDonald : 2 day Residency, Movie Prop Workshop + Lecture
Melinda Beck : 2 day Residency, Animation Workshop + Lecture
Tomi Vollauschek/FL@33 : 3 day Residency, Workshops + Lecture
Willy Hartland : Weekend Animation Workshop 
Aya Kakeda : 3 day Residency + Lecture
DB Dowd : Lecture
Michael Bartolos : Lecture, 15 day Residency + Limited Edition book Vostok
Steve Heller & Marshall Arisman : Lecture 
Laurie Rosenwald : Lecture 
Alain Corbel : Lecture + 3 month Residency 
Henrik Drescher/Wu Wing Yee : 3 month Residency, Lecture, Exhibition + Limited Edition broadside BabbleLab
Steve Brodner : 3 day Residency, Workshop + Lecture
R. Gregory Christie : 3 day Residency, Critiques + Lecture  
Peter Kuper : 10 day Residency, Lecture + Limited Edition print edition A Small Tale  
Jody Hewgill : 3 day Residency, Critiques + Lecture  
Ben Katchor : Critiques, Exhibition + Lecture

Another Voice: Political Art of the Late 20th Century at MICA
Political Illustration Panel [producer]
with Steve Brodner, Peter Kuper & Patrick JB Flynn