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Sharon J. Burton is a Metro Washington, DC area visual artist and independent curator. She is the Founder and Creative Director of Authentic Contemporary Art (2006-2011) which integrated social justice themed exhibitions as a way to promote visual art and to connect collectors to emerging and undiscovered visual artists in the Metro DC area.  In 2011, she launched The Artinista Art Advisory to provide art consultancy services for professional women.

Sharon served as a the first art curator for the Tubman-Mahan Art Gallery within the Center for Green Urbanism in Washington, DC from 2010-2011 and the curatorial advisor to Space 7:10 at Kefa Cafe, an “organic art space exhibiting an evolving mix of local, outsider, visionary, and world cultural artwork” located in Silver Spring, Maryland. Sharon has also served as an art curator, consultant, juror or intern to a variety of organizations and venues in the Washington, DC area including the former Ramee Art Gallery in Washington, DC, Creative Artisans Art Consultancy of Baltimore, Maryland, Overdue Recognition Art Gallery of Bowie, Maryland, The Millennium Art Salon, Washington, DC, Liberated Muse Productions, DC Chapter of the Women’s Caucus for Art and the U.S. Department of Education in Washington, DC.