Shelby Shadwell
Assistant Professor, Drawing
B.F.A. Washington University in St. Louis, 2003.
M.F.A. Southern Illinois University, 2006.
sshadwel@uwyo.edu • 307.766.3054 • WW 1804

Born and raised in Springfield, Missouri, Shelby has spent most of his years in the Midwest.  In 2003 he received his BFA from Washington University School of Fine Art in St. Louis, where he studied printmaking and drawing as a Kenneth E. Hudson Scholar.  The same year, he accepted a fellowship to attend Southern Illinois University Carbondale and went on to graduate with an MFA in painting, printmaking and drawing. 

Shelby actively exhibits throughout the St. Louis and Southern Illinois regions and has been the recipient of the Belle Cramer Printmaking Award and numerous exhibition and travel grants.  Shelby's work was recently featured in the Rockford Midwestern at the Rockford Art Museum, Landscape in the Postmodern at the Brad Cooper Gallery in Tampa, Florida, Looking at Southern Illinois at the University Museum in Carbondale, the Southern Illinois Artists Open Competition at Cedarhurst Center for the Arts, and most recently the Rocky Mountain Juried Exhibition at the Carbon County Arts Guild Depot Gallery. 
 

Landscape with Train
Iron oxide, charcoal, pastel on toned paper
40" x 60"
2006
 

 Landscape with Birds
Charcoal, pastel on rag mat
40" x 32"
2006

Interior Space
Graphite, charcoal, white pencil, coffee on paper
34" x 26"
2007

Landscape with Rabbits
Graphite, charcoal, white pencil, coffee on paper
34" x 26"
2008

Landscape with Rabbits
Graphite, charcoal, white pencil, coffee on paper
34" x 26"
2008

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