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SACRED: Women in Vision
March 1-31, 2016

University of Maine at Machias Art Gallery

Reception

March 15th, 5-7 p.m.
Live music by Kelly Bryand and Anthony Branca

The show is up and looks great! We are grateful to Bernie Vinzani who did a wonderful job of hanging the work of five artists with varied styles. Women in Vision is honored to be showing in this space for Women's History Month!

 

River Flame

Raku, by Shanna Wheelock

Created while participating in the Tim Christensen Pottery Intensive at the Cobscook Community Learning Center, February 2016

What a great week!

Raku Cup

by Shanna Wheelock, 2016

The new carved design for 2016, The Harbor Seal.
I am in the thick of it working on the awards for the Bay of Fundy International Marathon.

Stitched in Stone

Photo from the granite path to the Breakwater Lighthouse.
I'm just back from a yearly visit to the Samoset with family.

Johnson Bay

Lubec, Maine

2015 season at Crow Town Gallery was so fabulous that I decided to return for the 2016 season! It's a great line up with four artists: Bonnie Beard, Sheryl Denbo, Kathrin Hilten, and myself.

Gallery Info

Sun Halo
Incredible to witness!

Photographing the McCurdy Smokehouse in downtown Lubec never gets old....especially on a foggy day!

 Waiting for warmer days to meditate on the rocks at West Quoddy (warmer...and BEFORE the hiking population picks up!!!)

 

 Enjoying my canned mackerel from my first out-on-the water mackerel fishing experience last summer. It was great fun (and work!!!) catching lots of fish then canning and smoking them with Celia and Billy. It was a long, wet, and stinky day!!! Yummy, too!

The fluid-edged carved whale bowls have been a hit. I'm looking forward to showing my handcarved pottery this summer at Ironbound Gallery in Camden, Maine.

     I am attempting to return to blogging after a many-months hiatus. Same old story. I've been wrapped up in the everyday goings-on that go on in life. Every day seems to be an adventure and I am keeping myself busy with creative tasks as well as social time with friends and family. That may not sound so odd, but it was not so long ago that I was one of those "all work and no play" types of girls. So, I am enjoying life while keeping on top of the demands of being a full time artist and potter. Let me translate for you. Full time = way more than 40 hours a week. Still. I love what I do and I am blessed to be able to do it.

     Last year was full of gallery shows, vending, running shop, dancing, and hiking. This year is shaping up to be the same. Rest-assured, this "routine" is never boring. I'm working on the marathon awards again and preparing for a second season at Crow Town Gallery. I'll be creating all new work for those three shows this summer. Currently the Women in Vision group is showing at the UMM Art Gallery. It opens on March 15th. Hope you can make it to the reception!!!

     While I am returning to blogging, I am not quite awake enough to return to writing a lengthy text. I'll keep this one short and hope to hop back in soon with some creative ramblings. We'll just assume that since a picture is worth a thousand words...I already provided enough with the stream of photos above!

     My love affair with Lubec continues.