The Advocate just published this feature on the LSU School of Veterinary Medicine Dean and his vision for the future, which of course includes founding the artist residency I was the first to complete last year! It includes one of my paintings as well (see my screenshot to the right).
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Morningside Student Designed the New Sioux City Garden Club Logo!
I love to partner with community organizations in art department coursework with beneficial, real-world projects. This semester, I agreed to host a design competition within our graphic design program for the Sioux City Garden Club! Their president, La Vone Sopher, reached out to me and we worked out a plan: students in Graphic Design I and II would submit logo designs, and the club would proffer a $50 first place (and use that logo) as well as a $25 second place prize.
Students in these two courses submitted 26 designs, and there were a lot of quality options for the garden club to choose from! The board winnowed it down to six, and had the club members vote to select their first and second place designs. Graphic design and history major Miriam Moore’s logo was the winner!
I like to take on these sorts of projects - even though it invariably adds to my workload - because students get to work with actual clients, the top designers receive compensation, and all students create portfolio pieces while the winner sees their work enter the community. It also raises both the winning artists’ and our art department’s visibility… particularly when we issue press releases about the successful conclusion of the partnership!
Here’s the Morningside University press release (complete with a quote from me), which was picked up by KWIT and a KTIV television interview.
UPROAR Magazine Cover Image and Feature!
Louisiana State University’s School of Veterinary Medicine just launched a new magazine, titled UPROAR. For its inaugural Spring 2023 issue, my painting Wild Card is on the cover and a feature story on my trailblazing artist residency is inside! Here’s a digital version to check out, with some screenshots included below. Hopefully I’ll receive contributor’s copies in the mail soon!
My Artwork Illustrates a Chemical Review on Frontal Polymerization!
“Frontal Polymerizations: From Chemical Perspectives to Macroscopic Properties and Applications” by Benjamin A. Suslick, Julie Hemmer, Brecklyn R. Groce, Katherine J. Stawiasz, Philippe H. Geubelle, Giulio Malucelli, Alberto Mariani, Jeffrey S. Moore, John A. Pojman, and Nancy R. Sottos, published by American Chemical Society (ACS) Publications on February 24, 2023, is a 62-page chemical review. My QuickCure Clay sculpture Catalyst illustrates Section 5.4.4. Frontally Polymerized Artwork in Figure 40 along with other QCC artists’ works.
The above article title links to the online review, and here’s the PDF version. Below is the relevant page!
Concordia High School Pause PAWS Speaker Event and Radio Interview
Below is the YouTube video of my speech given on Friday, February 17, 2023 in the Pause PAWS notable alumni speaker series at Concordia High School (CHS), and here’s a link to our KNCK radio interview, embedded into the NCK Today article, “Professional Artist and Educator Shelby Prindaville Presents to Concordia High School Students.” My solo show in the Frank Carlson Design Room is in connection with this speaker event.
I wasn’t expecting to receive any gifts, so when the CHS Student Council President Jenna McFadden presented me with a framed honorary letter with an explanatory plaque at the end of my speech (see the photo in the NCK Today article image below), I was surprised and humbled! I had a great time connecting with the CHS student body, got to see some great student artwork (one such talented artist is Daegan DeGraff - check out her Facebook artist page!), and really appreciated getting to work with Brandt Hutchinson and his colleagues in this community service.
NCK Today Coverage of Solo Show and Guest Speaker Event
I grew up in Concordia, Kansas, and attended high school at Concordia High School (CHS). Recently, CHS Career and Community Coordinator Brandt Hutchinson reached out and invited me to join their notable alumni speaker series called Pause PAWS.
I agreed as long as we arranged for an exhibition of my artwork at the same time; if I’m going to be speaking about my career as a professional artist, it is important to me that the audience has a chance to see my artwork firsthand. Brandt immediately coordinated with the Frank Carlson Library to host a solo show in the Frank Carlson Design Room.
The show installation, opening reception, and lecture are all coming up this week! Here’s the first piece of press about it, via NCK Today. As the article shares, “Shelby will be speaking to current Concordia High School students from 9 am to 9:30 am on Thursday, February 16th in the historic CHS Auditorium. The presentation will be live-streamed for the general public by Chris Stiles' high school video production team on their YouTube channel, USD 333 Media Productions.
The Frank Carlson Library will be hosting Shelby's art exhibit from February 17th to March 3rd. The public is welcome to meet the artist by attending the opening reception for the exhibit from 5 pm to 6 pm on Thursday, February 16th at the Frank Carlson Library.”
Siouxland Woman Magazine Featured Artist Profile
Below is the digital spread of my featured artist profile in Siouxland Woman Magazine’s Volume 9 Issue 2, published in January 2023! While it’s the current issue, you can also look at the whole magazine online here.
Morningside University News and the Morningsider Lite
The Morningside University News got in on the press action surrounding the 2022 Walker Awards, publishing “Christopherson, Paulsen, and Prindaville named 2022 Sharon Walker Faculty Excellence Award Winners” on December 7, 2022.
In addition, the Morningsider Lite newsletter republished the above article as well as the piece the Morningside University News produced earlier this fall on my veterinary school residency in its Volume 3, Issue 2 in December 2022.
Upcoming: Siouxland Woman Magazine
Here’s some exciting news: I will be the featured artist in the January 2023 edition of Siouxland Woman Magazine! Stay tuned, as I’ll share the digital version and images of the print piece once it’s been published.
And Now, the Morningside University News!
The Morningside University News just got in on all the excitement - “Associate professor of art Shelby Prindaville uses skills towards historical process” was published on August 26th! The image on the right is a screenshot of the introduction, but check out the whole article in the link above or take a look at this PDF.
Country Roads Magazine Feature!
Country Roads Magazine just published a fabulous article on my LSU Vet Med artist residency in both their digital and September print edition! On the left, you can see a screenshot of the beginning of the write-up to whet your appetite.
You can read the digital piece here, see a full PDF, or pick up a physical copy if you’re in the Louisiana/Mississippi distribution zone!
Sioux City Journal Feature!
I’ve been getting some nice Louisiana press for my summer LSU Vet Med artist residency, and now there’s great local coverage as well - with more in the works! Here’s the Sioux City Journal digital article “Morningside professor participates in first-ever artist residency at LSU vet school” by reporter Dolly Butz, and here’s a PDF of the print version!
The Advocate Feature Article!
The Advocate writer Robin Miller wrote up a lovely feature article for The Advocate on me, “LSU Vet School hosts first-ever resident artist: Combines clinical labs to create art” which was digitally published yesterday! (It hasn’t yet come out in the print version - I think Robin mentioned it will be in the Saturday edition.) Below is just a screenshot of the intro, but you should definitely follow the link above and read the whole piece!
The Advocate Press Coverage
The Advocate, Louisiana’s largest daily newspaper, publicized my artist residency recently in their article “July 4 band concert and an artist-in-residence at LSU Vet School: the area arts and cultural scene” by staff writer Robin Miller on July 2, 2022! Here’s a link to the piece, and a screenshot of the first paragraph (though there’s more to the article).
DASH Special Edition 2021 Publication
Back in mid-2018, DASH Literary Journal published my painting All Out. DASH editors recently reached back out to me to request my permission to republish it in their best-of retrospective DASH Special Edition 2021 to be published in December. I said yes, and provided updated contact information for the new contributor copies they kindly send out. Those just arrived in the mail!
An Earth Day Celebration of My Artwork in the Sioux City Journal
In connection with Earth Day and my solo show at The Block Gallery downtown, the Sioux City Journal published a feature on my work in their most recent Weekender edition!
Birdwatching!
I love spending time outdoors, and I enjoy opportunities to do so while learning, exercising, and having new experiences. On the first day of spring this year - March 20th - I joined some friends in a birding hike at the Dorothy Pecaut Nature Center in Stone State Park. To our surprise, part of the way through a cameraman appeared to document the event for the local news!
In this ABC television affiliate KCAU 9 video clip, you’ll hear about what we were up to but also get a glimpse of me on the trail - I’m the birdwatcher in the striped shirt, black face mask, maroon hat, and grey backpack. On this hike, I learned how to focus binoculars and became a little more familiar with some of the more common birds in the region: the white-breasted nuthatch, the red-bellied woodpecker, and the downy and hairy woodpeckers (they look very similar but have different beak lengths). We also saw a couple of bald eagles and turkeys, though I had already been able to identify those!
Sioux City Journal Coverage of My Geoselenic Artist Status
Journalist Dolly Butz with the Sioux City Journal published an article just a few days ago on my new geoselenic artist status!
Recent Article in the LSU Reveille About QCC
This summer has been so crazy that I haven’t been as on top of sharing my press coverage, but here’s a still fairly recent article from the LSU Reveille which gives my collaboration with Dr. John Pojman on 3P Quick Cure Clay a mention, “LSU professor creates QuickCure Clay, combining science, art, aiding wide range of artists.”
Publication in the 2020 Kiosk
I entered artwork into the jury pool for the 2020 issue of the Kiosk, which is published at my own institution of Morningside College in Sioux City, IA. Two of my pieces, Balancing Act and Camelflage, were selected and the magazine’s print edition will be distributed in a few weeks! If you’d like to see the digital version, you can browse it here. The 2020 issue is Volume 82, which is a testament to the longstanding tenure of this publication - the first issue was released in 1938.