Sherry Dobbin

Sherry Dobbin has been the Director of Public Art for Times Square Arts since February 2012 and has worked for over twenty years as creative producer and arts administrator across theater, opera, dance, TV, and visual arts for both non-traditional and traditional venues. Previously, she was Director of The Watermill Center, founded by Robert Wilson, where she developed a year-round program of international, cross-disciplinary artist-in-residence programs, produced large site-specific events, and developed a humanities program including lectures, screenings, education events and tours of a 8,000 piece art collection. From 2004 - 2008, she was a Project Director in arts-led regeneration across London and East of England where she was involved in visioning, strategy and delivery across public realm projects. As a result of her work, she was invited to become a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (UK) and awarded an Escalator Leadership award by the Arts Council England and has presented at numerous regeneration conferences in the UK. She holds a BFA in theater direction and an MA in Art History and sits on advisory and review panels for cross-disciplinary arts organizations. She has worked for such organizations as Los Angeles Opera, Huntington Theater Company, Boston Ballet, WGBH-TV, Royal Institute of British Architects and Wysing Arts. Ms. Dobbin currently co-teaches as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the NYU Robert F Wagner Graduate School of Public Service The Arts & Artist in Urban Revitalization with Tim Tompkins.

Of the collaboration with Clocktower on the After Hours series, Sherry Dobbin says: “After Hours is the newest iteration of this kind of creative, underground, culture-shaping event to come to the Crossroads of the World. By converting our neighborhood’s spaces into mini-galleries and show places, we are reaffirming Times Square’s position in the artistic vanguard.”