Exhibitions
I have ten ceramic pieces in the upcoming Cultural Corner Art Guild & Gallery’s Pottery, Glass & Jewels Exhibition in Chillicothe, Missouri! My good friend Susan Nelson will also have work on display, so you should really check this show out if you have the opportunity.
The show will run from October 5 - November 15, 2024 with a closing reception on Friday, November 15th from 5-7pm. Here is their website, and their address is 424 Locust St, Chillicothe, MO 64601.
If you’d like, you can vote for my piece Symbolism in the Outta Pocket Exhibition’s People’s Choice Award by clicking here. It’s a simple one-page Google form.
I imagine voting closes on August 23rd as awards are announced that evening, so try to vote by August 22nd!
I was juried into the national ceramics exhibition Outta Pocket by juror Nicholas Geankoplis who serves as the ceramics program director at Kansas State University. This exhibition “highlights creative work using clay or ceramics in an atypical, non-traditional, eclectic or eccentric way.” My included piece is Symbolism, which is an acrylic painting on five partially deglazed 19th century ceramic tiles and tile fragments.
Outta Pocket is on exhibit from July 29 - August 23, 2024 at the Manhattan Arts Center, Philip & Jeune Kirmser Gallery, 1520 Poyntz Ave., Manhattan, KS 66502. There will be three show awards announced at the closing reception on August 23.
KTIV chose to use footage of me looking at artwork to illustrate their article about the Advance to Gogh event.
Just a reminder that I’m participating in a large group exhibition of over 40 Siouxland artists: Advance to Gogh. The opening artwalk receptions for this event (held at the Sioux City Art Center, Gallery 103, Three Rivers Gallery, Art SUX, and Vangarde Arts) was on Thursday, July 11th. I’m unclear on exactly when each of the participating venues will take down the show, but I believe it’s up at least through mid-August.
To the right, you can see an image of me looking at some of the exhibited artworks which was published by KTIV, and if you check the article and video out there’s more footage of me at the reception as well as their own event description and interviews.
In case you can’t make it, though, I’d like to share with you some images of what I did! In the random lottery, I drew the gameboard Scrabble Junior.
The original Scrabble Junior game board.
I decided to keep the illustration and prompt for “sheep” and then painted over all the rest of the illustrations and prompts, color matching with paint to “restore” the rest of the board to a clean, new appearance. Next, I painted a lamb at the base, added the words “& Shelby” to the wordmark, and carefully redrew the grid lines with marker.
Shelby Prindaville's repainted and drawn-over game board.
Finally, I added words for sheep in many languages to illustrate how one plays Scra-baa Junior!
This is Scra-baa Junior (“A ewe-nique edition!”), mixed media including acrylic, marker, varnish, and glue on Scrabble Junior game board with game tiles, 2024.
Shelby Prindaville's finished "Scra-baa Junior" artwork.
In my last week, our shows and artist talks were scheduled to take place on Wednesday, June 26th from 2-6pm. I was completely studio-focused in the days leading up to the reception, and I managed to get six paintings up for display; however, the sixth one wasn’t quite finished yet so I planned to continue to work on it at home. I’m pretty pleased with this amount of production in a four-week residency, though I definitely bolstered it by coming a week in advance to get over my jet lag while purchasing art materials and gathering reference experiences and imagery!
We had already packed up everything in the studio aside from the displayed artwork in order to host the reception on the 26th. I was departing on the morning of the 29th for Kyoto, and needed to ship my luggage to Tokyo before that. It seemed silly to me to revive my studio practice given all those details, so after the show ended, I deinstalled my artwork and took it and all my studio materials back to the house.
Then on the 27th, Emily and I visited Arita! Takeo-onsen, the town which hosts the Arts Itoya residency, is located in Saga prefecture in Kyushu (the southwestern Japanese main island). Saga prefecture has three particularly famous porcelain towns: Arita, Imari, and Karatsu, and I wanted to visit at least one of them! In terms of the porcelain produced, I like both Arita and Karatsu in terms of aesthetics (Imari porcelain is a little too ostentatious for my taste). Arita is much closer to Takeo than Karatsu, so it was the better choice for a day trip in terms of both time and cost. We first stopped at their ceramic museum, and then walked to a famous studio called Kouraku Kiln. After that, we walked to the major porcelain shop center Arita Sera and ate lunch. We then visited a LOT of porcelain stores (we probably visited about 50, but I think there might’ve been 100 there). I’ve never seen such a large, single-subject shopping district before and I am pretty confident it’s impossible to take in all at once; there’s too much to look at and our feet were also voicing complaints. There was so much to see that we barely bought anything due to the mental overload, the very real luggage size/weight limitations, difficulties in transporting fragile ceramics, and the fact that we’d already bought some ceramics from a store in Takeo; we stuck to small items only. I bought a gift and four pieces, and Emily bought two gifts and two pieces.
On the 28th, we visited Nagasaki. My former colleague Masa Watanabe had urged me to do so, and Hiro seconded the recommendation. We made our first stop at their prefectural art museum, and then went to lunch before checking out their very small Chinatown and then wrapping up at a Buddhist temple, Fukusaiji. That evening, Hiro helped me ship my two large pieces of luggage to my Tokyo hotel with Yamato Transport. And with that, my last week at the Arts Itoya residency came to a close!
The Advance to Gogh flyer for participating artists, designed by Jean-Guy Richard!
My amazing friend and artist Terri McGaffin has organized the Advance to Gogh exhibition taking place at multiple galleries in downtown Sioux City, and she and Gallery 103 invited me to participate!
51 artists including me brought game boards (and some included game pieces and boxes) to the lottery selection on April 6th. I drew #43, which was Scrabble Junior!
I’m looking forward to the opening artwalk on Thursday, July 11, 2024 at 5:30pm beginning at the Sioux City Art Center and proceeding to visit all of the included venues:
Sioux City Art Center
Gallery 103
Three Rivers Gallery
Art SUX
Vangarde Arts
There will also be a People’s Choice Award with online voting, so stay tuned as I share more information about that as it becomes available! If you want to visit Gallery 103, it’s located on the ground floor of the Ho-Chunk Centre at 600 4th St, Sioux City, IA 51101.
I have to commend Terri - organizing such a big event across multiple galleries and organizations is a real labor of love and she’s doing a fantastic job with it.
I was juried into a national exhibition in Norfolk, Virginia, at the Norfolk d'Art Center! The show is called Nature Homage: A Juried National Exhibition of Animal and Insect Artworks. Juror Tonya Hopson selected two of my paintings, The Seed and Camelflage. If you’re interested in the statistics: 57 works made it into the show out of 396 submissions.
Nature Homage will be on display from March 16 - April 13, 2024. The reception will be held on Friday, March 22, 2024, from 5:30-7:30pm and the d’Art Center will do a Facebook Live of the reception awards as well as upload the award video to YouTube and upload the exhibition online on their archive site.
The d’Art Center’s address is 740 Boush St., Norfolk, VA 23510, if you are in the area and want to check the show out!
One of my obvara raku vessels was juried into the 2024 ARTcetera exhibition and fundraising auction at the Sioux City Art Center! This exibition opens with a reception on Thursday, March 21, 2024, from 5-7pm. Artworks will be made available for sale at “Buy It Now” prices on March 22, and the exhibition continues through April 18 when the auction is held as a part of a ticketed event evening.
The opening reception will be free to attend, and if you’re interested in buying tickets to attend the auction, you can do so here.
The Sioux City Art Center is located at 225 Nebraska Street in Sioux City, IA, 51101.
Just a reminder that I have artwork in two different group shows right now if you happen to be in these areas: the 29th Arts North International 2024 exhibition in Hopkins, Minnesota through February 24 and the 2024 Arizona Aqueous XXXVIII exhibition in Tubac, Arizona through February 25.
As you can see below, the folks at the Tubac Center for the Arts used my painting Syncretism as an advertisement of the show on their Instagram, which is cool!
In more good news, I’ve also been juried into the upcoming 29th Arts North International 2024 exhibition which is hosted in Hopkins, Minnesota! My veterinary epidemiology painting Hosts was selected for inclusion. This international opportunity garnered 1060 entries, from which the jurors chose 160 for exhibition.
Exhibition dates and location:
Saturday, January 13 – Saturday, February 24, 2024
Reception: Saturday, January 13, 2024, 6:00 – 8:00 pm
Hopkins Center for the Arts, 1111 Mainstreet, Hopkins, MN 55343
Website: http://www.hopkinsartscenter.com/
There are awards for this exhibition as well, which will presumably be announced at the opening reception!
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My artwork was juried into the upcoming national 2024 Arizona Aqueous XXXVIII exhibition! Juror Tracy Lynn Ross selected my sparrowhawk mother and child papyrus paintings Syncretism and Potential.
The show will be on display from January 5 - February 25, 2024 in the Tubac Center of the Arts located at 9 Plaza Road, Tubac, AZ 85646. There are awards, so I’ll look forward to the announcement of those - presumably at the opening reception on Friday, January 5th from 5-7pm.
Whew, it’s a busy fall! My solo show Materiality has closed, and I’ve been hard at work with the aim of getting all the sold pieces from it into the hands of the buyers. Here are some photos of the exhibition and reception! I was very pleased with the show installation and flow, which was due to our amazing preparator Shannon Sargent. There was great community turnout for the reception - it was a fantastic event.
The below gallery of images is from my Phoenix Athens Gallery solo show!
Athenian Habitat by Shelby Prindaville
Exhibition dates: 15 – 22 July 2023 at Phoenix Athens Gallery, Asklipiou 89, Athens, Greece
Reception: Thursday 20 July 2023 19:00-22:00
I am really happy with this body of work; everything installed on the walls was created in five weeks, and I even managed to complete the piece displayed on a small easel in the front window before the reception.
I’ve been fortunate enough to receive Morningside University Ver Steeg and Morningside Experience Grant funding to support my research through my summer artist residencies at the LSU School of Veterinary Medicine and Phoenix Athens these past couple of years - and now, I am exhibiting that artwork (as well as artwork from my Whiterock Conservancy residency, raku workshops, and general studio practice) in a solo show on campus in Eppley Art Gallery!
I titled this show Materiality because of the wide variety of media on exhibit; for artwork in this show, I dug my own wild clays, made my own ash glazes and saggar-fired plant vines onto pottery, built substrates out of recycled wood and concrete, worked atop unusual surfaces including antique ceramic tiles and papyrus, incorporated a wide range of veterinary materials, harvested natural cave pigment, and made use of scientific processes including chromatography and frontal polymerization.
Materiality is on display August 23-October 7, 2023. It’s open to the public on weekdays during business hours, which will be 8am-5pm once we have student workers begin their shifts, but until then it’ll be 8am-4pm. The show reception will be Wednesday, September 26th from 3-4pm - I’ll give a short artist talk, we’ll serve refreshments, and the event is free and open to the public!
Shelby Prindaville's Eppley Art Gallery Fall 2023 "Materiality" show poster.
My Aedes aegypti mosquito painting Hosts was juried into the upcoming People and the Planet exhibition at Touchstone Gallery in Washington, D.C. There is both a more selective in-person and a larger virtual gallery, and my work was accepted for both. When I applied, I thought given the show dates that I could make their mailing deadline after my return to the US, but they’d like it earlier than I expected so I had to elect to only exhibit in the virtual portion. The show will be on view from August 2-August 27, 2023!
Gallery info:
Touchstone Gallery
901 New York Ave NW
Washington DC 20001
202-682-4125
Open: Wednesday - Sunday 12-5 pm
www.touchstonegallery.com
A screenshot of the People and the Planet exhibition information from Touchstone Gallery’s website with my name highlighted.
As you can probably surmise, I tend to post a week or so after whatever it is I’m doing. It takes time to process photos, write up posts, title and measure artwork, and so forth. It’s also nice to space out new artwork posts, so that online viewers have time to appreciate each one! This means that though I’ve only published three finished pieces and covered three weeks here in blog entries so far, I’m actually part of the way through my fifth week and have finished six pieces of artwork with two more in progress… and my solo show is rapidly approaching.
Below are the show details and statement, for anyone who happens to be in Athens!
Shelby Prindaville is interested in the human role in shaping an ecological balance and creates art pieces centered on the beautiful fragility and resilience of the natural world. Her interdisciplinary art practice demonstrates the joy of contemplative engagement with nature as well as provides a taste of the sorrow a disconnect with nature can bring.
Shelby encountered each of the animal and plant species depicted in her paintings on Mount Lycabettus during a sequence of hikes undertaken throughout her residency, and drew additional inspiration from ancient Greek ruins; the Greek history of conquest, influence, and cultural fusion; urban construction materials; Athenian museums’ broken artifact presentations; a spotting scope’s field of view; the etymology and mythological background of the Eurasian sparrowhawk’s scientific name; and the law of conservation of energy.
While in residence at Phoenix Athens, Shelby has been working with new-to-her materials that have been locally or regionally sourced – concrete, broken segments of marble and paving stones – and in some cases, historically meaningful: papyrus and 19th century antique tiles. These materiality explorations and her desire to give her finished pieces their best chance of long-term archival stability have necessarily involved experimentation and occasional failure or redirection. She has visited two sandblasting facilities, used an angle grinder for the first and several subsequent times with a variety of different heads and attachments, tried out crackle paste, and limited herself to a color palette inspired by archaic natural pigments.
Shelby Prindaville is the Art Department Chair, Gallery Director, and Associate Professor of Art at Morningside University in Sioux City, Iowa, USA. Her studio practice combines her interests in the sciences and art. She has been selected as a World Wildlife Fund tour artist, was invited to be the first-ever artist in residence at a veterinary school in the United States, and has previously completed twelve other artist residencies. Her website artbyshelby.com displays her work across a wide variety of art disciplines including painting, mixed media, relief, sculpture, ceramics, and interactive installations.
The Northwest Iowa Group Sierra Club invited me to give an artist lecture about my ecologically-focused studio practice at their upcoming Tuesday, March 28th meeting!
My presentation will be from 6-7pm with a Q&A and reception afterwards, as a small selection of my paintings and 100% wild, site-specific ceramics will be on display and I will offer prints, greeting cards, and magnets for sale. My friend and colleague Terri McGaffin will be giving my introduction and helped organize this event along with Jeanne Bockholt. I’m excited to share and discuss my work with this environmental conservation organization!
This event will be held at the First Unitarian Church located at 2508 Jackson St in Sioux City, IA. This programming is free and the public is encouraged to attend.
(If you’re available earlier, they’ll be hosting a potluck from 5-6pm as well in the basement - I’ll be there too!)
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.”
