CAROL SHELKIN
Artist
About Exhibitions / Installations / Awards / Blogs / Publications
Carol Shelkin creates contemporary, fine art, original and intricate mosaic designs that eminent care and attention to detail with hand cut, high quality stained glass.
Taking to art as soon as she was able to hold a crayon, she started attending Fleisher Art Memorial in Philadelphia. It was made clear at a young age that her life would be centered on her passion for art.
She continued her artistic direction with studies at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. After attending PAFA, she owned a successful, arts nursery school/child care for 25 years.
Carol, also having a successful artistic career in painting and pottery, has been accepting commissions and creating one-of-a-kind works of art that's displayed in galleries, community centers, libraries, commercial and residential settings. She received a grant from The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Upper Darby Arts and Grant for continued education from The Society of American Mosaic Artists to study in Italy. She completed two projects where 1,000 students gathered to create mosaic art for public display.
Carol finds a very eclectic approach to surface design, placing glass where she, as a painter naturally places paint.
Exhibitions (selected)
Solo Exhibition Oakland, CA
Institute of Mosaic Art
2011
Main Line Art Center
Haverford, PA
2011
Mosaic Arts International 2011
"Beautiful Day"
Mexican and AMerican Cultural Center Austin, Texas
In Person
Community Art Center Wallingford, PA
2011
There's Always Room for Dessert
Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA
2011
Tesserae: The Art of Mosaics 2010 Long Beach, California
2nd City Council Art Gallery
"Paco"
2010
Art in Pieces Mystic, Conn
Mystic Arts Center
"Thinking"
Selection Committee
Jo Braun, Karen Barthelson, Allison Ives, Gwen Basilica, Deb Aldo
2010
Wallingford Community Art Center Walligford, PA
Members' Exhibit
"Beautiful Day" - Mixed Media Second Prize
2010
Tell-Tale Tiles & Fractured Fantasies Philadelphia, PA
Philadelphia's Magic Gardens / Isaiah Zagar
2010
Mosaic Arts International 2009 Chicago, Ill
Smith Museum of Stained Glass at Chicago's Navy Pier
Oliver Budd, Juror
Juan Chavez, Juror
Kozachek, Juror
Wayne Art Center - Smith Gallery Wayne, PA
Invited Guest Artist
Maplestone Gallery Creemore, Ontario Canada
Suzanne Steeves
Contemporary Mosaic Art 2009 Ciel Gallery, North Carolina
Pamala Goode
Signaled Work Honored - Wishes
Maestro Giulio Menossi, Italy, Juror
Uncorked: The Bottled Up Emotions of Women Released through Mosaic
Bottleworks Ethnic Arts Center
Dawnmarie Zimmerman
Johnstown, PA
2009
Large Scale Installations
Aronimink Elementry School
Drexel Hill, PA
The Kindergarten Center
Drexel Hill, PA
Australia Zoo
Steve Irwin Mosaic Project Brisbane, Australia
"Branching Out"
Schoolhouse Senior Center Folsom, PA
"River" "Sunrise"
Lambertville Public Library Lambertville, NJ
Awards, Blogs and Publications (Selected)
Robin Brett Mosaic Scholarship 2011 - The Society of American Mosaic Artists
Second Place - Members Show - Community Art Center - Wallingford, PA 2010
Featured Artist ~ Contemporary Mosaic Art , Irit Levy & Pam Givens 2011
Breakout! Your Pathway to Success Brit Hammer 2010
Signaled Work: Wishes, Contemporary Mosaic Art 2009
Ciel Gallery, NC
1st Place, Faces, Fabulous Hair Ciel Gallery 2009
Mosaic Publications
Craft Magazine, December 2008, My Kind of Glass Slippers Pg. 89
Mosaic Art 1 - 5 ~ This is an international portfolio of Contemporary Mosaic
Art
BLOGS.....If you would like to read more…
Virginia Gardner, drifting into focus
Nancie Mills Pipgras, Mosaic Art Now
Kim Grant, Mania & Mischief
Stacy Alexander, Listen to my Artbeat
Lynne Mosiman, Mosaic Challenge
Yanely Espinal, Bits and Pieces: Mosaic Art Today
Donna, Mosaic Art Source
Irit, Mosaic is Art!
Rebecca, Mosaic Monday
All artwork is Copyright ©
by Carol Shelkin.
Please do not duplicate without my permission.
carol.shelkin@yahoo.com
