Brought to teach atSUNYBuffalo by Gerald O'Grady, a disciple of Marshall McLuhan who also recruited Frampton, Steina and Woody Vasulka, and Tony Conrad, Sharits helped to turn the school into a headquarters for experimental film.
She got hands-on experience as an intern at a suicide crisis center in Buffalo, learned behavior therapy atSUNY Stony Brook and eventually landed at the University of Washington.
Rooms are dedicated to SUNY Buffalo's English department (its stellar faculty at the time included critic Leslie Fiedler, novelist John Barth and poet Robert Creeley) and to the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, then under the dynamic leadership of conductors Lukas Foss and Michael Tilson Thomas.