Back to (Art) School!

Hello Friends,

Despite the temps still hitting the nineties here in Portland, Labor Day is now behind us now and cooler days and crimson and golden leaves are right around the corner. That means back to school both for the littles and for us! Fall always feels like a good time to slow down and deepen our connections and our roots. Here is your friendly nudge to make time to do something for yourself this fall. Maybe it's investing in your creativity by taking a drawing class with us or maybe it's just planning in some time for a daily walk. Caring for ourselves and for each other is a radical and transformative act.

Registration for fall drawing classes is now officially open. One of the things I love most about drawing is the way it centers us in our attention and curiosity about the world. It is a deeply grounding and enlivening practice that transforms how we see and how we engage in our world. Drawing is for everyone! Hope you'll join us this fall in our drawing adventures. We are running two remote (live online) drawing courses: Museum Drawing and Drawing Foundations. Can't wait to see your faces in the virtual classroom!

Click here to see Fall Class Offerings

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If you would like more focused individual attention or if the class environment is not your jam, I am now also offering private lessons and one-on-one coaching. I can help you with anything from learning the basics to bringing an artmaking practice into your life for well-being, to coaching you through creative blocks, to helping you clarify and identify complex ideas you may be working through in your creative practice.

$500 for 6 weeks of individualized lessons and coaching, weekly 1 hr sessions

$100/ 1 hr session (financial hardship sliding scale available)

Please email me at shelleychamberlinart@gmail.com if you think this offering is for you. I'm excited to work with you!

Art Adventures in Wild Times

Hello dear friends and fellow art lovers,

I hope you're well and taking care of yourself in these wild times, and that you've been able to make room for art in your life—which, as we all know, helps keeps the heart feeling alive, broadens our capacity for connection, and deepens our relationship with meaning and with joy (things I think we could all use a little more of these days!)

I know some of you follow along on my artmaking and art teaching journeys on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shelleychamberlinart/ but I know lots of folks still rely on good old email to stay in touch (and it's been a minute! Hi!)

The pandemic has provided me the opportunity for a lot of reflection and a lot of solo studio time (and let's be honest a fair bit of sweatpants and netflix time too)

Artmaking has been such a source of joy and solace and connection in my life. Over these last couple of years, it has become increasingly clear to me that it's a practice I want to put my energy toward sharing with more people, keeping accessibility at the forefront. I've been slowly working towards launching a remote art course platform so that folks can join in from anywhere. I piloted the program with my Museum Drawing Course, and it's been so very lovely. I have been running a small cohort since summer of 2020—meeting on zoom to be in community and draw together—and I plan to launch additional offerings in summer of 2022. In addition to the Museum Drawing Course, I'm expecting to offer Beginning Drawing and Drawing for Kids, for a start (expect this to change and grow! This is art, after all!) Look for an announcement in your inbox (click here to connect) soon. (If you know you want in, please tell me your time preferences now, and I'll factor that in!) This is your moment to tell me what you want! I'm open to suggestions and requests.

I'm also thrilled to share that I'm gearing up for a big 4-week artist residency and fellowship at Mass MoCA this year and will be sharing that journey on instagram as well, if you wish to follow along.

Studios at MASS MoCA: Upcoming Artist Residency!

I couldn’t be more excited to share that I’ve been selected for a 2022 artist residency at MASS MoCA(!!!), and on top of that total thrill, I’ve also been awarded a full fellowship. I will be in residency for 4 weeks at MASS MoCA this coming year.

Read more about the program here: https://www.assetsforartists.org/studios-at-mass-moca
And then follow along on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shelleychamberlinart/

Museum Drawing Class, Fall 2021

Registration is now open!! Please join us!!

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Museum Drawing
Wednesdays, 1-3:30 pm
September 29- November 17
course meets weekly on zoom
$200 donation for the eight week session

Each week we will 'visit' a museum or gallery exhibition, look at and discuss the artworks, and then work on specific assignments to hone drawing skills of looking, seeing, hand-eye coordination, etc. Assignments will be open-ended in order to cater to your skill level and interests. Individualized feedback will be offered during each class session.



This class is open to all levels of drawing experience/ skill, from beginner to advanced!

To participate, you'll need some drawing supplies (suggested supply list will be provided) and a computer (or a tablet or cell phone) with an internet connection.

Click here to register for Museum Drawing, Fall 2021

Please email me shelleychamberlinart@gmail.com with any questions!

Drawing at the Virtual Museum

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I'm excited to announce that I am opening up my Drawing at the Virtual Museum class to the public this fall. Please join me!! We'll 'visit' museums and exhibitions all over the world and draw from them.

Class meets via zoom, Wednesdays, 10am-12:30pm (PST)
September 30-November 18
Cost is $200

All are welcome, and no previous experience is required.

Send me an email @ shelleychamberlinart@gmail.com for details or with any questions!
And please share this with your friends!

(I will update here when the course is full)

Love Via Post

New Project Alert!!

http://shelleychamberlinart.com/love-via-post

Art sent to your door 💌 Doing my part to share the love! DM me on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/loveviapost/ 
(or send an email to shelleychamberlinart@gmail.com, subject line: Love Via Post) with name and address (yours, or a friend’s) Totally free. No strings. All I ask is that you may be willing to lend them back to me for a potential show in the future. That’s it! Looking forward!

Monster Drawing Rally III at Portland Art Museum

Portland Art Museum's Monster Drawing Rally is happening again! Come watch me and other local artists draw in the Museum's beautiful courtyard. Last year was a whole lot of fun! Kids activities, hoards of people, lots of great drawings, beer garden.
Join me!

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All drawings will be sold, hot off the presses, for 35 bucks a pop. Proceeds go to support the museum's free school and youth programs

Friday, July 14, 6-9 pm
Free and open to the public.

Assembly: A Group Exhibition

Artists: Shannon Baird, Shelley Chamberlin, Daniel Doford, Harrison Higgs, Ariana Jacob, Julie Keefe, Ellen Lesperance, Jim Lomasson, Vanessa Renwick, Sika Stanton

Helzer Gallery
Portland Community College
Rock Creek Campus, Building 3, Room 102
17705 NW Springville Road
Portland, OR 97229

Exhibition runs January 11-February 17, 2017

Artist Talk: February 2, 12noon

 

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Shelley Chamberlin
Aftershock (3 details: images 15, 11, and 18)
Polyester plate lithographs
NFS

Following the upset of the 2016 presidential election, I felt compelled to document our shared grief. On November 8, we began as a tangle of nerves, anxious and excited; we became a country in shock, a nation in mourning. These images are poignant intimate portraits of those first hours and days of shock, grief, despair, rage, and disbelief following the election. 

The work spans the gap between the intimate and political, reminding us that these moments are not abstract and distant, but rather visceral, personal and deeply embedded in the fabric of our collective experience, that politics affects our nerve, our bone, our very being.

Call for participation

Studio Visit Radio Show

A couple of weeks ago, I had the great pleasure to be a guest on Freeform Portland's Studio Visit Radio Show. If you missed the live broadcast, you can listen to it here:

Studio Visit is a curated sound exhibition of PDX-area artists, art professionals, art lovers, and makers of all kinds. DJs Abi and Megan host on alternating weeks, and each week a new guest joins the show for an exploration of their personal music tastes, creative process, and random daydreams. The show is 1/3rd talk and 2/3rds music, and the music is eclectic by definition because weekly guests determine the playlist. DJs Abi and Megan engage guests in casual conversation about how music affects their artistic practice, which music obsessions they have and why, memories of the local music and art scene, and what makes them tick creatively in general. More of a casual conversation than an interview, Studio Visit desires to uncover hidden sides of the local art scene in an idiosyncratic, random and synesthetic way.

Gallery 51 Artist Interview

Michelle Daly and I were interviewed for our exhibition, Everything I never Told You: Secrets Too Beautiful to Keep, September 29-November 20, 2016 at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts Gallery 51

MCLA's Gallery 51 speaks with artists Michelle Daly and Shelley Chamberlin on their exhibition 'Everything I Never Told You: Secrets Too Beautiful to Keep' showing September 29- November 20 at https://www.mcla.edu/gallery51 #TOOBEAUTIFULTOKEEP See more of their work at... http://shelleychamberlinart.com http://www.michelle-daly.com

Everything I Never Told You: Secrets Too Beautiful To Keep

Michelle Daly and I have been working madly on our upcoming show and we're delighted to invite you all to the exhibition!

Everything I Never Told You: Secrets Too Beautiful To Keep

A collaborative exhibition exploring vulnerability, intimacy, relationality, nostalgia, memory, disruption, determination, absurdist humor, and hope.

Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, Gallery 51
51 Main St North Adams, MA 01247
Gallery hours: Mon-Sat 106, Sun 12-4

September 29-November 20, 2016
Opening Reception September 29, 5-8 pm
Artist Reception October 27, 5-7 pm
 

Shelley Chamberlin, Skyline #3, charcoal on paper

Shelley Chamberlin, Skyline #3, charcoal on paper

Michelle Daly, Re-imagined Landscape, detail

Michelle Daly, Re-imagined Landscape, detail

See Press Release below for further details

 

NORTH ADAMS, MASS. — Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA) Gallery 51, 51 Main St., will present “Everything I Never Told You: Secrets Too Beautiful To Keep,” a collaborative exhibition between Shelley Chamberlin and Michelle Daly. The show will run September 29 to November 20, 2016.  The public is invited to attend a free opening reception on Thursday, Sept. 29 from 5-8pm.  A second reception will take place Thursday, October 27, from 5-7pm.

The exhibition explores the intersectionalities common to the artistic practices of Chamberlin and Daly spanning over a 15 year friendship and features artworks mapping the trajectory of their friendship along with their individual and collective artistic practices.

In “Everything I Never Told You: Secrets Too Beautiful To Keep,” Shelley Chamberlin and Michelle Daly explore themes of vulnerability, intimacy, relationality, nostalgia, memory, disruption, determination, absurdist humor, and hope. The exhibition will include installation, drawing, painting, printmaking, mixed media, and interdisciplinary works.

Shelley Chamberlin is an interdisciplinary artist who works in a variety of media from printmaking to film to performative installation. She is interested in exploring relationality and the ways in which we build and contextualize meaning. After earning her Bachelors of Fine Arts from Marylhurst University, she ran the studio art program at Portland Art Museum. She received her Masters of Fine Arts from Goddard College. Her work has been included in a variety of film and print media, including NBC’s Grimm, The Grove Review, and Album Covers for The Speechwriters and Velvet Mishka. Her work can be found at Portland Art Museum’s Rental Sales Gallery and is included in Regional Arts and Culture Council's Visual Chronicle of Portland Collection. She teaches drawing, printmaking and mixed media at Portland Community College and Multnomah Arts Center.

Michelle Daly is an artist and Program Manager at the Berkshire Cultural Resource Center. She also holds a Bachelors of Fine Arts from Marylhurst University. Michelle’s work has been exhibited in juried, group, and solo exhibitions. She is interested in exploring the tension found where spaces overlap, and creating work that displays the labor of its making. Her work has been featured in group and traveling exhibitions throughout the country and is held in private collections around the world. She has had solo exhibitions in Portland, OR, Los Angeles, Calif., and Brooklyn, NY. 

 

MCLA’s Berkshire Cultural Resource Center provides opportunities, resources, and support to the Northern Berkshire Community. BCRC brings together the Northern Berkshire, MCLA and greater creative communities through its cultural programming, including: MCLA Gallery 51, DownStreet Art, Berkshire Hills Internship Program (B-HIP), and MCLA Presents! The BCRC promotes, facilitates and encourages a dialogue to foster a sustainable, creative community.

Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA) is the Commonwealth’s public liberal arts college and a campus of the Massachusetts state university system. MCLA promotes excellence in learning and teaching, innovative scholarship, intellectual creativity, public service, applied knowledge, and active and responsible citizenship. MCLA graduates are prepared to be practical problem solvers and engaged, resilient global citizens. For more information, go to www.mcla.edu.

 

 

Monster Drawing Rally at Portland Art Museum

I am excited to announce that I will be participating in this year's Monster Drawing Rally! Come watch me and other local artists draw in the courtyard of Portland Art Museum. All drawings will be for sale for 35 bucks each. Proceeds go to support PAM's awesome free education programs!

July 15, 2016, 6-9pm

 

Art Rock

I'm excited to be participating in Portland Community College's Visual Arts Fair: Art Rock.

This Monday, May 16, 10 am-2 pm, Mike McGovern and I will be leading a collaborative printmaking demo and workshop. Come get your hands dirty and make some prints with us!

​Portland Community College, Rock Creek Campus
17705 NW Springville Rd, Portland, OR 97229

Free and open to the public!



Print Print Print!

Southern Graphics Council International is having their annual conference in Portland this year: Flux Portland, and the city is full of amazing prints and shows and happenings!

I've got a couple of pieces on view around town.

I have this brand new piece up at the Trayle Studio Print Show
There will be a little opening this Friday if you'd like to pop by.

In this Metaphor, I am the Tree of Singing Birds
Polyester Plate Lithograph with Watercolor


I'm thrilled to be a part of the fantastic Print Portfolio:
My Rules, curated by Mike McGovern

The piece below is on view at PCC Sylvania

The Ghost Ship
Polyester Plate Lithograph with Watercolor



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Check out all of SGC International's Flux PDX events here: http://sgciportland.com/
On Instagram and Twitter: @sgci_2016
#sgci #sgci2016 #fluxpdx

PAPER

These new pieces will be in the PAPER show at Waterstone Gallery this month. There's some really interesting work in the exhibition; I'm excited to be a part of it!

 The opening's this Wednesday from 5-8 pm 
424 NW 12th ave, PDX 
I hope you can stop by if you're in the area.
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