Curriculum Vitae

Rebecca Shelly

Education

2009:     MFA in Contemporary Art Practices: Studio Arts, Portland State University, Portland, OR.

2004:     BFA with Honors: Painting, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME

Instruction:

2023: California State University, Chico, CA.

Lecturer:

  • Spring term: Basic Drawing (Two sessions) and 2D Design

Weft and Willow Fiber Art Studio, Chico, CA.

Created a business that teaches people how to create Fiber Art using the tools that she has sourced. This includes online and in person.

2022: California State University, Chico, CA.

Lecturer

  • Spring term: Life Drawing and 2D Design

  • Fall term: 2D Design (Two sessions) and Life Drawing

Butte Community College, Oroville, CA.

            Associate Professor

  • Spring term: Gallery Production and Fiber Arts

 

2021: California State University, Chico, CA.

Lecturer

  • Spring term: Basic Drawing- 2 Sessions

  • Fall term: Life Drawing and 2D Design

Butte Community College, Oroville, CA.

            Associate Professor

Butte College Golden Award Recipient

  • Spring term: Basic Drawing and Art Appreciation

  • Fall term: Basic Drawing and Art Appreciation

2020: California State University, Chico, CA.

            Lecturer

  • Fall term: Basic Drawing and Life Drawing

  • Spring term: Introduction to Life Drawing and Basic Drawing

 Butte Community College, Oroville, CA.

            Associate Professor

  • Fall term: Basic Drawing and Art Appreciation

  • Spring term: Introduction to Fiber Arts and Gallery Production 

               Gallery Director 

  • Juried Student Art Show

 

2019: California State University, Chico, CA.

            Lecturer

  • Fall Term: Introduction to Painting and 2D Design

Butte Community College, Oroville, CA.

            Associate Professor

  • Spring Term: Basic Drawing and Gallery Production

  • Summer Term: Art Appreciation

  • Fall Term: Art Appreciation and Basic Drawing

               Gallery Director 

  • Juried Student Art Show

  • Remembered, Art Honoring Loss from the Campfire, 1078 Gallery, Chico, CA. Curated/Created with Rebecca Wallace and my Gallery Production Class.

 

2018:   Butte Community College, Oroville, CA.

            Associate Professor

  • Spring Term: Basic Drawing and Art 2

  • Summer Term: Summer Bridge: Art Appreciation

  • Fall Term: Art Appreciation and Basic Drawing

 

2017:   Butte Community College, Oroville, CA.

            Associate Professor

  • Fall Term: Art Appreciation and Fast Track: Art Appreciation

 California State University, Chico, CA.

Lecturer

  • Spring Term: 2D Design and Basic Drawing

 

2016-2019: Honey Run Quilters, Chico, CA.

Teacher

  • Garment Fitting, Construction and three Kid’s Sewing Camps per year

 

2016: Sacopee Valley High School, Hiram, ME.

Long Term Art Substitute

  • Full Spring Semester: Art 1 (Twice), Art 2, Advanced Art, Beginning Painting and Ceramics 1

 

2014: Maine College of Art, Portland, ME.

Pre-College Faculty

  • Life Drawing

 

2010: Da Vinci Middle School. Portland, OR.

  • Seed Starting Workshop.

 

2008:  Portland State University, Portland, OR.

Teaching Assistant: Joe Macca's Introduction to Painting course.

Teaching Assistant: Erik Geshke's Introduction to Drawing course.

 

2004: Maine College of Art, Portland, ME.

Teaching Assistant: Gail Spaien's Beginning Painting course.

 

2000: YMCA camp Belknap, Tuftonboro, NH.

Fine Arts Director.

 

Professional Growth and Achievement

Conferences or Workshops attended:

California State University’s Go Virtual Online Teaching Program, 2020

  • Three week, four days a week program where I learned about creating a community, being a student in the online environment, creating interactive online assignments, creating videos, advanced Zoom and building a course that covers accessibility and equality.

California Community Colleges Online Teaching Conference, 2020

  • Three-day online conference where I learned the basics and advances techniques with online teaching.  

Professional Development Workshops Butte College, 2017-2021

  • Teacher development workshops.

Associate Faculty Conferences at Butte College: 2018 and 2019

  • Close to seven hours of teaching workshops.

 

Artist Lectures/Gallery Visits

2023:      

  • Scheduled: National Spinning and Weaving Guild of America: October 8th.

  • Artist talk: Annie Star Quilt Guild, Chico, CA

2019:     

  • Gallery visit and talk: Lauren Ruth’s Introduction to Professional Arts Practices Class from CSUC, 1078 Gallery, Chico, CA.

  • Gallery visit and talk: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, CSUC, 1078 Gallery, Chico, CA.

2017:     

  • Mural Pechakucha at the Museum of Northern California Art, Chico, CA.

  • Artist Lecture: J. Pouwel's Intermediate Drawing course, California State University, Chico, CA.

2016:      

  • Artist Lecture: Kingswood Regional High School, Wolfeboro, NH.

2012:      

  • Artist Lecture: Avantika Bawa's Visual Concept/Painting courses, Washington State University, Vancouver, WA.

2009:    

  • Artist Lecture: Modou Dieng's Experimental Drawing course, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR.

  • Gallery visit and talk: Amy Steele's Creative Re-use Course, Portland State University, Portland, OR.

  • Thesis Lecture, Loss, Resurrection and Preservation, Portland State University, Portland, OR.

2008:      

  • Artist Lecture: Pat Boas' Intermediate Painting course, Portland State University, Portland, OR.

  • Studio visit and talk: Ben Rosenberg's Beginning Painting course, Portland State University, Portland, OR.

 

Professional Service

2023: Assistant to Lauren Ruth and David Barta with returning Looms to Chico State from Butte College.

2020: Juror for the Running Threads- Contemporary Quilt Exhibition, MONCA, Chico, CA.  

2019:

  • Scenic Artist for The Butcher Shop’s, The Director’s Cut performance, Chico, CA.

  • Row by Row Pattern Designed for Honey Run Quilters, Chico, CA.

2018:

  • Scenic Artist for My Name was Deception, Created and directed Frida Kahlo’s The Wounded Table Tableau, Chico, CA.

2017: 

  • Scenic Artist for The Butcher Shop’s, My Name Was Deception performance, Chico, CA.

  • Row by Row Pattern Designed for Honey Run Quilters, Chico, CA.

2016:     

  • Scenic Artist for The Butcher Shop’s, The Eleventh Hour performance, Chico, CA.

  • Public Art Mural, Kezar Falls Movie Theater, Kezar, ME.

  • Scenic Artist for Sacopee Valley High School theater program, Hiram, ME.

2013: Volunteered at admissions and openings, Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, OR.

2010: 

  • Portfolio Reviewer for the Maine College of Art, National Portfolio Day, Pacific Northwes College of Art, Portland, OR.

  • Volunteer: art auction/scholarships, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR.

2009:    

  • Volunteer: art auction, Disjecta, Portland, OR.

  • Visiting Artist Committee (PSU), Artists Hosted: Steve Badanes, Michael Brophy, Julio Morales,

               J. Morgan Puett, and Storm Tharp.

2008: Portland State Art Auction Committee.

 

Grants/Awards

2020:     

  • Butte College: Golden Teacher Award

2019:    

Annie Star Quilt Guild, Chico, CA.

  • Honorable Mention for California Poppies

  • Honorable Mention for Disappearing Landscape

2008:    

  • Laurels Graduate Tuition Remission Award. Portland State University. Portland, OR.

  • First Place. Essay contest on the resurgence of home vegetable gardening. Johnny's Selected Seed Company. Winslow, ME.

  • Lucille Welch Scholarship, Portland State University, Portland, OR.

2007:    

  • Art Auction Scholarship, Portland State University, Portland, OR.

2003:   

  • Payson Merit Scholarship, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME.

2000:    

  • Talent Award Scholarship, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME.

  • Exceptional Young Artist Award, Kingswood Regional High School.

  • Portfolio Nation Level Winner, Gold and Silver Keys, Scholastic Art and Writing Competition.

Exhibition Record

Selected Solo or Two Person Shows

2019: Field Notes: Two person show with Rebecca Wallace, 1078 Gallery, Chico, CA.  

2011:  Land Girls, Nisus Gallery, Portland, OR.

2010: Seed Olympics, Falsefront Studio, Portland, OR.

2009:    

  • Vanishing Varieties, MFA Thesis Show, Autzen Gallery, Portland, OR.

  • Local Victory at the Market, Saturday Portland Farmer's Market, Portland, OR.

2008: Local Victory, Launch Pad Gallery. Portland, OR.

2006:    

  • Recent Works, Stumptown-Downtown. Portland OR.

  • New Work, Stumptown-Belmont, Portland, OR.

 

Selected Group Shows

2022: Running Threads, MONCA, Chico, CA.

2021:  Stitching California, Gateway Science Museum, Chico, CA.

2020:    

  • 20/20, A Collective Vision, E Street Gallery, Sacramento, CA.

  • Those Who Teach…Can, Museum of Northern California Art, Chico, CA.

  • The Art of Remembrance, Chico Art Center, Chico, CA.

  • Black Lives Matter Art Show, Chico, CA. (Two former Gallery Production students created and curated to raise money for Colors of Change).   

2019:    

  • Harvest of Quilts, Annie Star Quilt Guild Show at the Silver Dollar Fairgrounds, Chico, CA.

  • Remembered, Art Honoring Loss from the Campfire, 1078 Gallery, Chico, CA.

2018: Festival of Quilts, Portland Expo Center, Portland, OR.

2018:  Livable Planet? Juried, Chico Art Center, Chico, CA.

2014:    

  • MECA Painters Ten Years Later, June Fitzpatrick Gallery, Portland, ME.

  • Coming Home, (Alumni show) Kingswood Regional High School, Wolfeboro, NH.

2013: Lake Oswego Food and Art Festival, Juried, Lake Oswego, OR.

2012:    

  • The Big 300, People's Art of Portland Gallery, Portland, OR.

  • On the Edge, Launchpad Gallery. Portland, OR.

  • Portland Food cART, Juried, Screaming Sky Gallery, Portland, OR.

2010:

  • I'll Show You Mine, You Show Me Yours, Centre Gallery, Group show, Tampa, Florida.

  • Rom'n Times, Autzen Gallery, Portland State University, Portland, OR.

2009:    

  • White Noise, Curated by Jhordan Dhal, Worksound Gallery, Portland, OR.

  • It's Possible, MFA Group Show, Disjecta, Portland, OR.

2008:    

  • Children of the Revolution, Juried, Audio Cinema. Portland, OR.

  • Alphabet Soup, Juried, Woolley at Wonder Gallery. Portland, OR.

  • The Round, Group show with musicians, poets and artists performing together, Portland, OR.

  • Blue Squared, Gallery Paradiso, Portland, OR.

  • Little Things 8, Guardino Gallery, Portland, OR.

2007:    

  • Do No Harm vs. Step It Up, Curated: Jacqueline Ehlis, New American Art Union. Portland, Or.

  • All Day Snacking, Juried, Rake Gallery, Portland, OR.

  • Little Things 7, Guardino Gallery. Portland, OR.

  • Thirty, Invitational, 0M Traditional Arts 2007

  • Shell Show, Show with Michelle Ramin, Gallery Paradiso, Portland, OR.

2006:    

  • Round Two, Curated by Cein Watson, Kayo Gallery, Salt Lake City, Utah.

  • Art Media Past and Present, Portland Art Center. Portland, OR.

2004:    

  • Small Works Show, Juried, Space Gallery, Portland, ME.

  • The Sacred and Profane, Invitational, Peaks Island, ME.

  • Emerging Artists, Invitational, Art Gallery at the Clown, Portland, ME.

  • Variations on a Violin, Show for the Portland Symphony Orchestra: Jameson Gallery, Scott

  • Potter Gallery, Chocolate Church Art Gallery, Bayview Gallery, and Greenhut Gallery.

2003: Domestic Revival: Victoria Mansion. Through the eyes of Contemporary Artists, Juried, Carriage House, Portland, ME.

 

Public Commissions

2017:    

  • Public Art Murals through the Center for Healthy Communities at California State University. 

  • Arboga Elementary School and Hamilton City Elementary School

2009: Public Art Mural, YWCA Downtown, Portland, OR.

2000: Public Art Mural, Wakefield Historical Society, Wakefield, NH.

 

Bibliography

2019:

  • Smallhouse, Sarah, “Field Notes (1078 Gallery), https://locallookchico.weebly.com/blog/field-notes-1078, January, 2020.

  • Hanson, Natalie, “Art honors memories, losses of Camp Fire survivors,” Chico Enterprise-Record, May 2, 2019.

  • Sonoquie, Neesa, “The Healing Arts,” Chico News and Review, April 25th, 2019.

2018: “Honey Run Quilters teaches the next generation to sew,” Chico Enterprise-Record.

2016:

  • Hacking, Heather," Rolling out jewelry," Chico Enterprise-Record, December 10th, 2016.

  • "Meet the Artist," The Shopping Guide, July, 2016.

  • Reshelly Feature, GreenCraft Magazine, Spring Issue.

2014:   

  • Burdastyle Magazine, Germany, September Issue.

  • Vintage Travel Trailer Studio (Six page spread), Studios Magazine, Summer Issue.

2009: "Your Victory," Edible Portland Magazine, Spring Issue.  

2004: "Artists and Violins," Interview, ABC WMTW Channel 8, March 15.

2009:   

  • Carl, Calvin Ross, "White Noise' Group Show," Worksound Gallery.

  • Leonard, Patrick, "Culinary Arts," Slow Food Portland Blog, May 4th.

2008:    

  • Speer, Richard, "Now Showing; Rebecca Shelly," Art Listing, Willamette Week. November 19th           and 26th.

  • Urton, Robin, "Local Victory: A Renewal of the Victory Garden. " www.eyeconart.net/blog/.

2007:    

  • Libby, Brian, "Divide Entices Interaction, " (Review of Do No Harm vs. Step Up), The

  • Oregonian, February 9. (Labor Day in The Gorge: Photo)

2004: Thompson, Chris, "Bridge to Belly. Strung out on the PSO's violin variations. " The Portland Phoenix, March 5-11.

 

Exhibitions Curated

2019:   

  • Remembered, Art Honoring Loss from the Campfire, 1078 Gallery, Chico, CA.

  • Student Show, Butte Community College, Oroville, CA.

2016:     Art Show, Curated student work, Kezar Falls Theater, Hiram, ME.

2004:     In My Side Yard, Curated with Tiffany Falter, The Slanty Shanty, Portland, ME.

 

Post Graduate School Classes taken:

2020:       Classes for Knitting, weaving, natural fiber dyeing and basketry.

2019:       Jane Haworth’s Raw Edge Collage Quilt class, Annie Star’s Quilt Guild, Chico, CA.

2018:       Tara Faughnan’s Color Solids class, Annie Star Quilt Guild, Chico, CA.

2009-2019:

  • Sewing/Quilting skills learned: Piecing, Paper Piecing, Free Motion Quilting, Fabric Painting,

  • Garment Fitting, Clothing Construction, Sewing Machine Restoring, Weaving and Needle Felting.

 

Travel and Museums Visited:

United States: East Coast

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, New Museum, MoMA PS1, Smithsonian American Art Museum, National Gallery of Art, United States Holocaust Memorial, Farnsworth Art Museum and Portland Museum of Art.

United States: West Coast:

Crocker Art Museum, Portland Art Museum, de Young Museum, Legion of Honor, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Asian Art Museum, LOCMA, Craft Contemporary, Seattle Art Museum and Frye Art Museum.

 

Foreign Travel: Ireland, Amsterdam, Spain, France, Italy, Vancouver and Quebec, Canada.

Uffizi Gallery, The Louvre, La Bienniale di Venezia, La Sagria Familia, The Punta della Dogana Art Museum, Pompeii, Roman Forum and The Vatican.