Sheila Cameron

Hollywood After graduating from Maryland's Loyola University, having double-majored in creative writing and fine art, Cameron moved to Hollywood, to focus on painting and writing. While living there, she worked as a graphic designer, and also a producer and developer of content for film, television and websites, with clients and employers including HBO's original pictures department, Jagged Films, and Project Greenlight. and (in a reference to Cruise's Oprah interview) "Stop Sofa Abuse", Imitators soon copied Cameron's designs and began selling Free Katie merchandise as well. and sold thousands of shirts and other merchandise to customers both in the US and around the world. and made reference to by Iggy Pop in a 2006 interview, and in 2008 a group of fans picketed Katie Holmes's Broadway debut, their signs bearing Cameron's "Free Katie" and "Run Katie Run" slogans. As late as 2012, a group of people wearing Free Katie shirts had an unexpected encounter with Holmes herself when they all dined at the same restaurant. Shortly thereafter, the then-recently divorced Holmes was seen wearing a Free Katie shirt of her own.

Free Katie's popularity also led to the creation of an online forum community, which is still active as of 2015. Cameron was deluged with emails from fans, and she had to buy more bandwidth multiple times to accommodate the traffic the Free Katie website and forums generated.

Cameron's Free Katie campaign was covered by U.S. media including ABC News, NBC News, Newsweek, and The New York Times; Brazil, India, Spain and Sweden, She also said she originally created the Free Katie campaign for the amusement of herself and some friends, and DANK (Do Art Now Kids), whose "pop-up gallery" initiative, to bring art into otherwise unused spaces, she helped pioneer.

Jerry Saltz's challenge

In 2013, Jerry Saltz, senior art critic for New York magazine, issued a challenge to Cameron via Facebook:"Sheila Cameron, All right. You asked for it. Make 55 works with NO allusion to Fairytale. And experiment with various mediums and finishes and touches and surfaces and ideas-of-finish. Start today; you'll be in hell by the end of this VERY simple challenge... Maybe remove figures for these works as well. Or just get to work. See you in Hell … … … maybe." Saltz himself, in reviewing the collection, said, "Sheila Cameron did magnificently."

Exhibitions Beautiful Monsters. At Miner's Foundry Cultural Center. Solo exhibition. 2011 At Art Works Gallery. Juried shows. –2013

Wild & Scenic Film Festival Art Exhibition. At multiple venues. A juried exhibition, for which Cameron was one of 40 artists chosen from among 500 applicants. 2013 Smallworks. At Artist Studio in the Foothills. Group show of works measuring 12 inches or less. 2013 Two Johns and a Whore. At Los Angeles's Coagula Curatorial. A curated show with a theme of "art, love, sex, and commerce" and how they interrelate. 2014 Art Walk program. At multiple venues including "pop-up" galleries. A project of the Nevada City-based art collective DANK. 2014– 2015 Discover. At Off Center Stage, part of Grass Valley's Center for the Arts. Solo show, but part of a multidisciplinary exhibition matching visual art with live music, readings and other creative works. 2014 ArtExpo. At a former factory space in San Diego. Curated exhibition presented as an alternative to the concurrently-running San Diego Comic-Con. 2014 Every Angeleno Counts. At outdoor display along route. Curated exhibition combined with a 5K run/walk. 2014 LORE: The Art of Story. At Miner's Foundry Cultural Center. DANK group show. 2015 New Works. At Miner's Foundry Cultural Center. DANK group show. 2015 Cinema. At Miner's Foundry Cultural Center. DANK group show. 2015

Personal life Cameron and her husband Greg have two daughters. settling in Nevada City.