
Chris Sharp’s bronze sculpture of Big Joe Burrell was unveiled on the Top Block of Burlington’s Church Street on the opening night of the 27th Annual Discover Jazz Festival, June 4, 2010.

Sentient Being is a seminal work from her newest series of paintings, Bear Love. She writes, “Many of the legends of the polar north, as told by the Inuit elders, speak of the spirits of the great white bear and man – as being interchangeable. When the polar bears enter their dens they shed their hides and become men, and only upon returning to the frigid outdoors do they don their furs once again.”