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Master Storyteller
Hampton, VA
Sheila Arnold has been telling stories for an audience since she was eight years old. As a fulltime storyteller, she travels throughout the United States telling tales and performing historic characters. Sheila is also an historical consultant for museums, historical societies and organizations.
One of Sheila's greatest joys is being the Community Engagement Officer, Co-Founder and previous Artistic Director of Artists Standing Strong Together (ASST), which formed during the 2020 COVID-19 crisis, and continues to be a source of inspiration, strength and action in the storytelling and artists world.
Ms. Sheila is also a Co-Founder of Everybody’s Got a Story, a storytelling arts nonprofit organization in Hampton, VA, with the mission of using stories to encourage community conversations and thereby bring down walls and building bridges. Sheila has been honored as a 2025 Monticello Research Fellow, 2021 MacDowell Artist Fellow and a 2020 Mt. Vernon Research Fellow.