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. From 1988-2000, he taught sculpture at the University of Mississippi. In 1991, he taught for the University of Georgia's Studies Abroad in Cortona, Italy. In 1992, he was a visiting artist at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne, Australia. His residencies include the Community Council for the Arts in Kinston, N.C.; the Association for Visual Artists in Chattanooga, Tenn.; and the New York Mills Arts Retreat in New York Mills, Minn. In 2003, he received a Regional Artist Project Grant from the Arts Council of Winston-Salem/Forsyth County, and in 1994 he received a Visual Artist Fellowship from the Mississippi Arts Commission and an Emerging Artist Grant from the Jerome Foundation. His work has been in more than 300 solo, invitational, juried, and group exhibitions in galleries and museums such as Art in General in New York, N.Y.; C.A.G.E., Cincinnati, Ohio; COMUS Gallery, Portland, Ore.; Conemara Conservancy, Plano, Texas; Delta Axis, Memphis, Tenn.; Downey Museum of Art, Downey, Calif.; Galeria Mesa, Mesa, Ariz.; Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, N.J.; Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, Tenn.; John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, Wisc.; Maryhill Museum of Art, Goldendale, Wash.; Meridian Museum of Art, Meridian, Miss.; Ministry of Finance Gallery, Melbourne, Australia; Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, Miss.; the National Ornamental Metal Museum, Memphis, Tenn.; Palazzo Casalli, Cortona, Italy; Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, Ill.; Ringling School of Art, Sarasota, Fla.; 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.