BIO

Shelle Barron is a Professor of Art at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, where she mainly teaches design and theory. An admitted hybrid, Barron spent a decade designing for Public Broadcasting before returning to school for her MFA in Painting. She has shown her work in juried exhibitions, invitationals, and solo projects for some time, winning more than 20 awards for her mixed media pieces. She is a past recipient of a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Visual Arts Fellowship and a NEA Mid-Atlantic Regional Visual Arts Fellowship. Barron has completed residencies at the Brandywine Printmaking Workshop in Philadelphia, and more recently at Artists Image Resource (AIR) in Pittsburgh. Her work can be found in numerous private and public collections, including Blue Cross, Mellon Bank, Hoyt Institute of Art, Pittsburgh Public Schools, Clarion University, Erie Art Museum, and the collection of Geoffrey Gund.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

University and College Designer’s Association

American Collage Society

American Institute of Graphic Arts

-National Member, Affiliated with Cleveland and Pittsburgh Chapters

University and College Designers Association

Associated Artists of Pittsburgh

Northwest Pennsylvania Artists Association

-Founding member of this organization, initiated a scholarship and mentor program

American Advertising Federation

Chimera: A Journal of Literature and Art

-As a Faculty Design Advisor for this program of the university, I choose, direct and supervise the student design and promotions teams, oversee production, and manage the 20k budget awarded each year.

SELECTED ONE AND

TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

Erie Art Museum . Main Galleries

Spaces . Cleveland, Ohio

Associated Artists Gallery . Pittsburgh Center for the Arts

Cincinnati Artists Group Effort . Cincinnati, Ohio

University of Pittsburgh Gallery . Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

The Artists Gallery . Buffalo, New York

Sykes Gallery . Millersville University of Pennsylvania

Sandford Gallery . Clarion University of Pennsylvania

Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts . New Castle, Pennsylvania

SELECTED JURIED

EXHIBITIONS AND AWARDS

Annual Juried Exhibition, Carnegie Museum of Art. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

-Juror’s Cash Award . Purchase Award . Pittsburgh Public Schools . Selected for Special Exhibitions

Erie Art Museum

-Juror’s Cash Award . Joseph Plavcan Award for Painting, selected for the permanent collection

Chautauqua National Exhibition of American Art . Chautauqua, New York

-Best of Show

Pittsburgh Center for the Arts . Associated Artists Juried Exhibition

-Juror’s Cash Award

First Biennial Women’s National Exhibition . New York, New York

-One of 26 artists chosen nationwide

Three Rivers Arts Festival . Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

-Juror’s Cash Award

Hudson River Annual, The Printed Image . New York, New York

Rutgers National Works on Paper . Rutgers University, New Jersey

-Juror’s Cash Award

Hoyt National Exhibition . New Castle, Pennsylvania

-Juror’s Cash Award . Selected for the Permanent Collection

Erie Art Museum Annual Spring Show

SELECTED JURIED

EXHIBITIONS AND AWARDS

Re/Order . travelling exhibition . Rochester, New York

Hobart and William Smith Colleges . Geneva, New York

Carnegie Museum of Art . Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Foreland Street Gallery . Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Zoller Gallery . Penn State University

Butler Institute of American Art . Youngstown, Ohio

Hallwalls . Buffalo, New York

Pennsylvania Painters and Printmakers Invitational . Penn State University Gallery .

Selections from the Carnegie Annual Exhibition . Pennsylvania Travelling Exhibition

Pittsburgh Center for the Arts . Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

University of Pittsburgh Gallery . Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Hard Choices, Just Rewards . Traveling Exhibition of Pennsylvania Visual Fellowship Recipients