In 2014 Sharon and her daughter Shadayra Kilfoy-Flores worked with students, staff members and community members at Drexel Bi-Lingual Elementary School in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico to create a huge mosaic on the exterior wall of the school. Neighbors now refer to Drexel as “the beautiful school.”
In 2020, I began experimenting with “Disintegrations” – paintings built from fabric quilts that contain clothing & related items, along with a top layer of paint / graffiti / destruction. My goal was to build a “vocabulary” with the paint – to see how much paint the work wanted – to see how much the underlying fabric wanted to be obliterated – to see where the work demanded I take it. I made 20 – 30 relatively small works before I learned what the work needed and what made me happy. Many of these early works are in permanent collections – in Madison, Michigan and France.
These fabrications were made by Sharon Kilfoy for Center for Families community room as a gift. Many of the items in them belonged to her children and/or grand children.
This fabrication was made by Sharon Kilfoy for inclusion in the time capsule at Overture Center for the Arts. The time capsule is to be opened in 2056. The fabrication is a fabric collage sewn from remnants from “Fabrications – A Celebration of Madison’s 150 Years – in Cloth” by Sharon which is on permanent display at Center for Families. Also in the time capsule is a poem commemorating the project by Andrea Musher, the poet laureate at the time. Sharon’s grand daughter, Sirena Flores, was present when the time capsule was sealed.
Click here for a list of items in the TimeCapsuleList.
Click here to read poem by AndreaSesquicentennialMusher
This collage, a gift for Albert & Maria Goodman by Sharon Kilfoy, includes items from the Goodman Theatre in Chicago and the Appleton Lodge in Three Lakes Wisconsin.
Williamson Street Art Center and UE Service-Learning-in-Art students help Sennet Middle School students make action paintings during Centro Hispano’s after school Juventud program.
“What the Bees See” is a mural completed in the last 6 weeks at Sellery Hall on the UW campus. It is in a learning area called “The Hive.”
