Mary Michael Shelley
Folk Art Americana Painted Wood Carvings
Specializing in one of a kind and original art work.
News and Updates, last updated October 19, 2008
Upcoming shows:
Greater Ithaca Art Trail Extra Open Weekend. November 29 and 30 (Saturday and Sunday), 11AM to 5 PM. Fifteen Art Trail Artists (see below) open their studios for some holiday shopping!. For more information go to http://www.arttrail.com/main_pages/Event_Calendar.html
Plowshares Craftsfair, December 6-7, 2008. Nottingham Highschool, 3100 East Genesee St, Syracuse, New York.
Community Arts Partnership's Holiday Artist Market Show, 11 AM to 5 PM, December 13, 2008. Women's Community Building, 100 West Seneca Street, Ithaca, New York.
You can also find Mary's work at:
The Heritage Shop at Fenimore Art Museum (Cooperstown, NY),
Riverbank Arts (Stockton, NJ),
The Duff Lindsay Gallery (Columbus, Ohio),
Sea Hag Soap and Art Mercantile (Brackney, Pa, near Binghamton, NY)
Frank Miele Gallery (NYC, NY).
Belle Melange (Ithaca, NY)
Put it on your Calendar to visit me at the Ithaca Farmers’ Market, Summer 2009!
See me carve on Saturdays in my outdoor summer studio at the Ithaca Farmers' Market, booth #56. It's a Farmers' Market and far more. I carve at the market May through September, 9 AM to 3 PM. Take a boat tour of the lake, listen to live music, eat exotic food. Plan a trip to the beautiful Fingerlakes area of central New York and visit our market. Utne Reader (fall 2002) noted the market as one of the"sixty best places in America to hang out." The Farmers' Market website is: http://www.ithacamarket.com
GREATER ITHACA ART TRAIL 2008-9.
2008 Open Studio Weekend dates were October 11-12 and October 18-19, 2008. Art Trail is a self guided tour of 50 Ithaca and Tompkins County, NY artists' stdios. All Artists have their studios open at the same time on these open studio weekends, and the next ones won't be until fall 2009. But remember you can make an appointment to see my studio at other times of the year, when you're in the area. The Greater Ithaca Art Trail Website is www.arttrail.com.
New Inspiration.
I continue to work on my "Guard Dog" series. Protective dogs, people sleeping/dreaming. The stars and moon up overhead. While I'm inspired I like to do several pieces about the same theme, each one different, but with the same feeling. So many ideas, not enough time. Check out the bottom of my website home page to see some text describing this new guard dog series. I have a few carved but unpainted larger pieces that I plan to paint this fall and winter, two of sheep herding, one of frankenstein. I can't wait to see how they turn out. While in Bedminster, Pa (at the Bedminster Land Conservancy's Artisan Benefit Show) I took some photos of barns. I hope this winter to do several pictures of Pennsylvania Barns to take to the May, 2009 Folk Fest Show, at Mercer Museum, Doylestown, Pa..
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Tell me if you see my work!
Please let me know if, where and when you see a mention, review or picture of my work. Lots of times I never would know that my work has been on display unless someone tells me that they saw it. Thanks, Isabel, for telling me this summer that there was an article in The New York Times (July 30, 2007) about the New World of Coca-Cola Museum, with a picture of the bottle I did for Coca Cola shown from the back. And then, recently, a call from Martha saying "did you know your bottle is promininently displayed in the lobby of the museum?" The answer is "No I had no idea until you told me." So thanks.
Why the Waitress on my stationary and Website?
She's really me. She serves food with a smile on her face, even though her feet hurt. Artists serve food too, a different kind of food. For your information, my first job was as a waitress. In the 36 years I've been carving/painting I've made perhaps 200 pictures of diners. After all that standing up and carving, now my feet hurt too.