The home and studio of painter E.I. Couse and the two studios of J.H. Sharp Our Statement of Purpose Through its archives, collections, and programming, the Couse-Sharp Historic Site preserves and interprets Taos crossroads of cultures, promoting and facilitating research, education, and new perspectives on the Taos Society of Artists, early artists of Taos, and regional and Indigenous communities in relation to the greater story of the multicultural American West.