Sharon Mirtaheri, Artist

After 30 years as a cosmetologist, Sharon founded the “Angels with Scissors” organization, with 150 hairstylists and 43 hair salons, to enable a hair salon for the homeless at the Roanoke Rescue Mission. The organization’s goal was successful, and they raised the funds to build a hair salon inside the Mission’s Women and Children’s building, where volunteers come in to give free haircuts to the homeless.After retiring from her career in cosmetology, she began her undergraduate work in S...