Greg Shelnutt
Director of Visual Arts, Visual Arts Faculty (2000)
Sculpture, Ceramics

Greg Shelnutt earned a B.F.A. from East Carolina University and an M.F.A. from the University of Georgia. He has taught sculpture at the University of Mississippi, and the University of Georgia's Studies Abroad Program in Cortona, Italy.  He has also served on the sculpture faculty of the Victorian College of the Arts, in Melbourne, Australia.  His residencies include La Trobe University’s Visual Arts Centre in Bendigo, Australia, the New York Mills Arts Retreat in New York Mills, MN, the Community Council for the Arts in Kinston, NC, and the Association for Visual Artists in Chattanooga, TN.

Mr. Shelnutt has received grants from the Surdna Foundation, the Arts Council of Winston-Salem/Forsyth County, the Mississippi Arts Commission, and the Jerome Foundation.  With more than 350 solo, invitational, juried, and group exhibitions, his work has been shown in galleries and museums around the world, including Art in General, New York, NY; C.A.G.E., Cincinnati, OH; the Cameron Museum of Art, Wilmington, NC; COMUS Gallery, Portland, OR; Connemara Conservancy, Plano, Texas; Delta Axis, Memphis, TN; Downey Museum of Art, Downey, CA; Galeria Mesa, Mesa, AZ; Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ; Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN; John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI; Maryhill Museum of Art, Goldendale, WA; Meridian Museum of Art, Meridian, MS; Ministry of Finance Gallery, Melbourne, Australia; Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS; the National Ornamental Metal Museum, Memphis, TN; Palazzo Casalli, Cortona, Italy; Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL; Ringling School of Art, Sarasota, FL; SODARCO, Montreal, Canada; Strathmore Hall, Bethesda, MD; Taiwan Museum of Art, Taichung, Taiwan; Three Rivers Arts Festival, PPG Plaza, Pittsburgh, PA; the University of Hawaii at Manoa; The William King Regional Art Center, Abingdon, VA; and ArtStation, Auckland, New Zealand.