Artist Resume

Exhibitions

2017

Wheelock, Denbo, Hilten, and Bohlen, Crow Town Gallery, Lubec, Maine

2017

Wheelock, Hilten, Beard, and Denbo, Crow Town Gallery, Lubec, Maine

2017

Van Buren, Wheelock, and Hilten, Crow Town Gallery, Lubec, Maine (3-person show)

2017

Coastal Frontiers, Mulholland Market Gallery at Lubec Landmarks, Lubec, Maine

2016

Wheelock, Denbo, and Beard, Crow Town Gallery, Lubec, Maine (3-person show)

2016

Wheelock, Beard, Hilten, and Denbo, Crow Town Gallery, Lubec, Maine

2015

TRACES: Vanishing Landscapes, Harlow Gallery, Hallowell, Maine (3-person show)

2015

Masters in the Studio, Wholly Crow at Heartwood College of Art, Biddeford, Maine

2014

KINDRED: Women in Vision, Mulholland Gallery, Lubec, Maine

2013

A celebration of Fiber Arts, Lubec Landmarks, Lubec, ME

2012

Shanna Wheelock: Woven Works, Washington County Community College Library, Calais, ME (solo show)

2012

Bookman, Mosley, and Wheelock, Lubec Memorial Library, Lubec, Maine

2012

Midstream, Heartwood College of Art, Kennebunk, Maine

2012

Lubec Farmers' Market, Downtown Lubec, Lubec, Maine

2012

Razed, Mulholland Gallery / Lubec Landmarks, Lubec, Maine (solo show)

2012

Occupy Art !, Harlow Gallery, Hallowell, ME

2011

Globe Show: Worlds Seen and Foreseen, Downtown Skowhegan storefronts, Skowhegan, ME

2010

Local Show, Lubec Memorial Library, Lubec, ME

2007

Crow Town Artists, Library Lubec Memorial, Lubec, ME

2007

Shanna Wheelock and Julian Sacks, Harlow Gallery, Hallowell, ME (2-person show)

2006

Shanna Wheelock: Clay and Fiber, Lubec Landmarks, Lubec, ME (solo show)

2005

Meditations and Mythical Voices, Lubec Memorial Library, Lubec, ME (solo show)

2004

Group Show, West Quoddy Head Lightkeepers Gallery, Lubec, ME

2001

Visions of Earth and Spirit, Mountain Laurel Gallery, Knoxville, TN (solo show)

2000

Group Show, En Vogue Gallery, Knoxville, TN

1998

Pots, Prints, and Masks, Renaissance Gallery, Farmingdale, ME (3-person show)

1998

Mask Show, Hole in the Wall Studio Works, Raymond, ME

1997

Group Show, Pleasant Street Collective, Portland, ME

1996

Art '96, Harlow Art Gallery, Hallowell, ME

1993

Discovery Through Art, Gardiner Public Library, Gardiner, ME (solo show)

1993

See Hear Touch Feel, New Art Space, USM, Gorham, ME (2-person show)

Select Bibliography

Wallace, Janet, "Remote Revival, American Craft Magazine, Aug/Sept 2011

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Pike, Davis, "Front Up: Lubec" GenoTV Downeast, (interview), Sept 2011

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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

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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

2007

Maine Arts Teachers Fellowship, Maine Alliance for Arts Education and Maine Community Foundation

2000

First Place Purchase Prize, Old Hallowell Days, Hallowell, ME

1993

Second Place Purchase Prize, Old Hallowell Days, Hallowell, ME

1993

Excellence and Extraordinary Contribution to Ceramics, University of Southern Maine

Professional Affiliations & Teaching

2017

Residency, Inernational School of Zagreb, Croatia

2009-Present

Lubec Arts Alive, community organizer, Lubec, ME - http://lubecartsalive.blogspot.com

2009

Panelist for Maine Arts Teachers Fellowship, Maine Community Foundation, Ellsworth, ME

2006-Present

Cobscook Pottery and Fiber Arts, owner, Lubec, ME

2001-Present

Art Teacher, Lubec Consolidated School, Lubec, ME

2005

Cross-Border Environmental Art Project (Lubec and Campobello Island), organizer, New Brunswick, Canada

2002

"Prehistoric Art and Religion", guest speaker for Feminist Theory class, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

2001

"Prehistoric Art and Religion", guest speaker for Environmental Ethics class, University of Maine, Machias, ME

2001

Pellissippi Community College, MAC graphic design instructor, Knoxville, TN

1999

Mythology and Clay Interpretation, instructor for pre-release inmates, adult education, Augusta, ME

1997-1998

UMA Mile of Art, publicity coordinator, Augusta, ME

Education

2015

MFA, Heartwood College of Art

1998

Extended Teacher Education Program, art teacher certification, University of Southern Maine

1993

BFA, University of Southern Maine

1993

Associates in Liberal Arts, University of Maine at Augusta

To deny beauty in the midst of loss would be to deny nature its gifts and lessons.

~ Shanna Wheelock