ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

Beth Shadur is an artist who has exhibited widely in solo and group exhibitions in the United States and abroad, including at the Art Institute of Chicago; the Drawing Center in New York City; the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, NY; the Butler Institute of Art in Youngstown, Ohio; and at the Colorado Springs Art Museum, Colorado Springs, CO.  She has created over 125 large public murals as public, private and community art projects in both the United States and Great Britain.  She is an Artist-in–Education for the Illinois Arts Council and Urban Gateways in Chicago, IL.  She has taught and served as a visiting artist at many colleges and universities, including Northwestern University, Evanston, IL; Northeast Missouri State University, Kirksville, MO; and most recently as a visiting artist and scholar at Paradise Valley Community College in Scottsdale, AZ.  Shadur’s work appears in many publications, books and catalogues, including Twentieth Century Watercolors, Abbeville Press; The Special Unit, Barlinnie Prison, Its Evolution Through Art, Third Eye Centre, Glasgow, Scotland; Community Murals: The People’s Art, Associated University Press, NJ; and Art and Cartography, Art Institute of Chicago.  Her mural work in Barlinnie Prison, Glasgow, Scotland is included in the archives of the Peoples Palace Museum in Glasgow.  Shadur has lectured widely on community arts in both the United States and abroad.  She has curated several national exhibitions, most currently ‘The Poetic Dialogue:  Poetry: Women: Art’ at ARC Gallery  in Chicago.  Shadur has been a Ragdale Fellow and a Thomas Watson Fellow from Brown University.  Her work is owned in many private and public collections.