Steven Sorman for Gallatin Supervisor

Steven Sorman has served as an elected Gallatin Town Board member for the past 8 years. He was on the Gallatin Planning Board from 2002 to 2004.

From 2000 to 2007 Mr. Sorman was the President of the Ancram Preservation Group. In 2003 he served on the Ancram Bicentennial Committee. He has been a member of the Gallatin Residents Association since its inception. From 1984 to 1994 he was an elected town council member in Marine on St. Croix, Minnesota.

He is a self employed artist with an international exhibition record . Under the aegis of the U.S. Information Agency he has traveled to Iceland, Czechoslovakia (1998), and Japan to lecture and conduct workshops. He taught painting and drawing at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design from 1975 to 1979. He also built a hand papermaking facility at the school and taught a course in papermaking as well. In 1983 I directed a graduate seminar in printmaking at Indiana University. He has been on the faculty (at large) of Vermont College since 1993 and has worked with a graduate student on 4 separate occasions. From 2007 to 2010 he commuted to Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he was the Padnos Chair of Art and Design.  He taught painting and printmaking and in collaboration with the writing department, a course titled “Word and Image to Book”. He also built a hand papermaking facility and taught a course in that.

Steven Sorman has been married to Melissa Mayo Sorman since 1971. She is a garden designer. Their daughter, Clare, 35, lives in Minneapolis.

Listen to an interview that Steven Sorman did on @Issue on WGXC
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