Margaret Sheffield

Professor MARGARET SHEFFIELD has a M.A. from New York University in English Literature. As a Professor of Literature and Writing, she has taught at New York University, the New School, Bard College, and the Forum School in Rome, Italy. Her diverse art/cultural essays have been published in the New York Times, Art Forum, Art in America, Connoisseur, Arts, Art News, and Sculpture Magazine.

Her analysis of form in sculpture, THE EXPRESSIVE EDGE, was published in 2010 by Charta Art Books, Milan, Italy.

ROGER ROSENBLATT wrote of the book, "Art makes one see, and its most astute observers make one see more clearly. So Margaret Sheffield has done in THE EXPRESSIVE EDGE. She has hit on a new way to apprehend the beautiful and thus has opened our eyes and minds together."

"Margaret Sheffield's THE EXPRESSIVE EDGE is thought-provoking and insightful... Sheffield has a gift for making difficult concepts crystal clear." – DR. SALLY SHELBURNE

Her latest book, THE BLUE TIBETAN POPPY, a collection of poems and watercolors based on trips to Italy and Scotland, was published in 2015. Poet and critic JAN C. GROSSMAN wrote of the title poem:

"Much happens here in a small space. The words in this portrait of the poppy are so well-chosen and unusual – 'blithe,' 'rapt,' 'emphatically physical' – and repetitions of tones lend to it a positive energy. All the hard t's (rapt, matte, Tibetan) create an effect that gives it immediacy, contrasted to the more sustained, lengthening sounds of 'ethereal,' 'iridescent' and 'aura.'"

Margaret Sheffield does private tutoring in Art History, English, Writing and Poetry. http://margaretsheffield.com/