ATLANTA, GA, October 19, 2017 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Marquis Who's Who, the world's premier publisher of biographical profiles, is proud to present Sara S. Hornbacher with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. An accomplished listee, Ms. Hornbacher celebrates many years' experience in her professional network, and has been noted for achievements, leadership qualities, and the credentials and successes she has accrued in her field. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
Hornbacher earned a Bachelor's degree at North Dakota State University and a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Moorhead State University. During this period of time, she was a member of the board of directors of Lake Agassiz Arts Council, and founded the docent program at the Red River Arts Center. Ms. Hornbacher then completed a Master's degree at State University of New York. From 1975 to 1978, she studied video with the Vasulkas and experimental filmmaking with Paul Sharits, Hollis Frampton, and Tony Conrad. In 1978, she spent four months studying with Dan Sandin at The University of Illinois at Chicago Circle. From 1979 thru 1980 she served as the Managing Director for the Center for Creative and Performing Arts at the State University of New York, where she mounted HPSCHD, a large-scale work by John Cage and LeJaren Hiller, at the Albright-Knox in Buffalo. That same year, Hornbacher was awarded the 1980 CAPS Video Award by the New York State Council on the Arts.
Hornbacher began her career in New York City as a visual artist, film and video producer, and working as a broadcast television editor, tape operator, and camera person for WPIX-Channel 11 and WABC-Channel 7 in NY. Ms. Hornbacher was the Artist-in-Residence at Bronx Museum of Arts from 1987 to 1989, where she mounted a solo environmental installation. From 1986 to 1994, she was a video instructor in the Film/Video department at the School of Visual Arts. She curated numerous video exhibitions, i.e. for The Kitchen Center in Manhattan and American Film Institute in Los Angeles. A fellow of the Experimental Television Center, Ms. Hornbacher is a member of the American Association of University Women, Media Alliance, and Film/Video Arts of New York City. Furthermore, she served on the charter board of directors for the New York City Chapter of Siggraph.
Living and working in New York City, Ms. Hornbacher established an international exhibition/screening record becoming well-recognized as an artist-in-residence at the Experimental TV Center. She has also been affiliated with the New York Foundation for the Arts and the American Museum of the Moving Image, among others, and was featured in many exhibitions, both nationally and internationally, at the International Center for Photography in New York City, the Bronx, The Whitney Museum of Art, the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Film Archives in Finland, as well as many others. The recipient of numerous grants to support her work, she has also curated various video art screenings and events, and in 1985 served as a guest editor for The College Art Association's first art journal issue on video. In 1994, Hornbacher became Video Department Chair at The Atlanta College of Art, where she taught for 12 years and received numerous Atlanta College of Art Faculty Development Awards. From 2006 to 2007 she was a Visiting Lecturer at The Georgia Institute of Technology, LCC/Digital Media department.
For more than 20 years, Ms. Hornbacher has been exhibiting her work in Atlanta, showing video installation environments and sculptural video works at The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, The City Gallery at Chastain, The Atlanta College of Art Gallery, and The Fay Gold Gallery. In 1989, she represented the US at The Fourth Annual Video Festival in Sydney, Australia and in 2002. She is currently a Studio Artist-in-Residence at The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center. In 2007, a collaborative video work was featured at E'cole Nationale Supe'rieure d'Architecture de Paris-La Villete. The artist has an extensive exhibition record and bibliography; her single-channel video works have been shown internationally since 1978.
A fellow of both the Experimental Television Center, and Signal Culture in upstate NY, Hornbacher, has as well, been a member of the American Association of University Women, Media Alliance, and Film/Video Arts of New York City and served as a founding board member of the NYC Chapter of Siggraph. She is currently a member of the The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, The Museum of Contemporary Art, and The High Museum of Art also in Atlanta and is a Fellow at The Hambidge Center for the Arts in Rabun Gap, Georgia. In addition to receiving numerous grants for her work. Hornbacher received The Mayor's Fellowship in the Arts awarded in 2000 by The City of Atlanta Bureau of Cultural Affairs. In 2002, she was selected by the KBFUS, King Baudouin Foundation United States Belgium, for a travel grant to exhibit her work in Belgium. That same year, The Atlanta Airport Art Program commissioned the artist to create a photo-mural which hangs on Concourse E at Hartsfield-Jackson airport. She has been named a Legacy Artist by The Burchfield Penney Art Center in Buffalo, NY where her life's work will be archived and the video work she created during artist residencies at ETC are included in The Rose Goldsen Archive at Cornell University. She has also been named to Who's Who in America and North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century.
In recognition of outstanding contributions to her profession and the Marquis Who's Who community, Sara S. Hornbacher has been featured on the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement website. Please visit www.ltachievers.com for more information about this honor.
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