Sharon Samuels, AIA, NOMA
I am a Chicago-based Art Director, Architect, Designer, Producer and Artist.
In 2015, after an almost twenty-year stint practicing architecture, I expanded my career to design for film and television. During my architecture career, I worked on a variety of projects from single-family residential to multi-million-dollar mixed-use projects mainly within the Chicago Metropolitan Area.
To date, I have worked in a variety of roles within Art Departments on television shows and feature films. Like many architecture nerds, I started as a set designer drawing “way too much”. I now work mainly as an Art Director both in Chicago and nationwide. In 2017, I took a producing turn with the (very) short film “Inside the Box: The Story of Boxville” which was a finalist in the 2017 I Look Up Film Festival sponsored by the American Institute of Architects. In 2024 I established blprint359, a media company that will produce original content for screens (large and small) and print.
My hobbies include photography, reading, eating, and participating in various athletic events—preferably with a medal at the end. In 2015 I realized one of my ultimate bucket list goals of becoming an Ironman ------ no metal suit required.
Member of:
IATSE Local 800, Art Directors Guild American Institute of Architects IATSE Local 476 National Organization of MInorty Architects Production Designers Collective
