Artist Resume
Exhibitions
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Wallace, Janet, "Remote Revival, American Craft Magazine, Aug/Sept 2011
Pike, Davis, "Front Up: Lubec" GenoTV Downeast, (interview), Sept 2011
Lum, Jon Wing "Lubec Arts Alive 2009: The Documentary", Wingstar Productions, (narrator), Aug 2009. Premiered in Lubec in 2010, Aired on ABC Bangor affiliate WVII, 3/25/12.
Fagan, Sarah E., "Roundtable - Three Professionals. One Question", Artscope Magazine, May/June 2010
Browne, Amy, "Voices: Lubec Arts Alive 2009" WERU Community Radio, Producer Carolyn Coe (audio interview), Oct. 2009
Cassidy, Katherine, "Three Area Ceramists Find Inspiration in Local Wilderness", Quoddy Tides, June 2012
Multhopp, Jennifer, "Shanna Wheelock: Weaving the Threads of Community", Lubec Light, Sept. 2007
Portland Museum of Art, "ACCESS", (contributing writer/teacher for curriculum publication), 2004
Morris, Drew, "Potter uses Earth, Air, Fire, and Water", Kennebec Journal, Sept. 1995
Laberge, Mike, "Artist Solos with Work in Gardiner", Kennebec Journal, Jan. 1993
Awards & Honors
Maine Arts Teachers Fellowship, Maine Alliance for Arts Education and Maine Community Foundation
First Place Purchase Prize, Old Hallowell Days, Hallowell, ME
Second Place Purchase Prize, Old Hallowell Days, Hallowell, ME
Excellence and Extraordinary Contribution to Ceramics, University of Southern Maine
Professional Affiliations & Teaching
Residency, Inernational School of Zagreb, Croatia
Lubec Arts Alive, community organizer, Lubec, ME - http://lubecartsalive.blogspot.com
Panelist for Maine Arts Teachers Fellowship, Maine Community Foundation, Ellsworth, ME
Cobscook Pottery and Fiber Arts, owner, Lubec, ME
Art Teacher, Lubec Consolidated School, Lubec, ME
Cross-Border Environmental Art Project (Lubec and Campobello Island), organizer, New Brunswick, Canada
"Prehistoric Art and Religion", guest speaker for Feminist Theory class, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
"Prehistoric Art and Religion", guest speaker for Environmental Ethics class, University of Maine, Machias, ME
Pellissippi Community College, MAC graphic design instructor, Knoxville, TN
Mythology and Clay Interpretation, instructor for pre-release inmates, adult education, Augusta, ME
UMA Mile of Art, publicity coordinator, Augusta, ME
Education
MFA, Heartwood College of Art
Extended Teacher Education Program, art teacher certification, University of Southern Maine
BFA, University of Southern Maine
Associates in Liberal Arts, University of Maine at Augusta
It is important that we keep compassion at the forefront of decisions.
~ Shanna Wheelock