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Sheila Goloborotko is a Brazilian artist and architect from Sao Paolo who has been living in the United States since 1983. She is a master printer, a professional printer with the Printmaking Council of New Jersey and founder of Goloborotko Studio in Redhook, Brooklyn. She is an assistant professor of art and design at the University of North Florida.

Work
Goloborotko's work "engages in a restless, relentless material practice" that crosses multiple media including printmaking, sculpture, installation, and video Community is a central theme in her work and practice of art-making, one she has explored both through collaborative methodology within the studio setting, as well as interactive public art installations.

1001 Dreams
In this interactive piece, dreams recorded by participants are printed onto pillows which are then sent to other cities to be left on the street and picked up by passersby. Accompanying instructions direct those who have used a found pillow to record their own dreams and send them back to the project, providing content for the next group of pillows to be created and dispersed. The project, which is a collaboration with sociologist Elizabeth D. Silva, has been shared at academic conference in the UK in 2012 and 2013.

Goloborotko Studio.
In 1989, Goloborotko Studio was founded in the DUMBO (1998-2008) and later moved to Creamer Street (2008-2015), in Red Hook, Brooklyn. She views printmaking as a democratic way of working, "a people's medium," and has invited printmakers of all levels, as well as those for whom art-making is entirely new, to create work in the space. In 2012, hurricane Sandy caused extensive flood damage to the studio.

From 2005-2015, Goloborotko’s Studio taught graduate printmaking workshops for journalism students with a concentration in arts and culture. Workshops were part of curriculum taught by writers and professors Alisa Solomon and David Hadju.

Professional Experience
Prior to her position at the University of North Florida (2015-) she was a visiting professor at the Associate Degree Program at the Pratt Institute (2004-2013) and an adjunct professor in the Art Department at Brooklyn College (1990-1998). She served as the Artistic Director at the Printmaking Council of New Jersey from 2010-2014.