I make hand carved and painted folk art pictures of diners, farms and American themes. Visit my home studio, a renovated two car garage in back of my house. Or see me demonstrate carving at my summer studio, my booth at the Saturday Ithaca Farmers’ Market. I’m the real thing, a living working artist with woodcarver’s mallet in hand. 

CONTACT INFORMATION

phone: 607-272-5700
email: bmez@lightlink.com
website: www.maryshelleyfolkart.com
blog: http://shelleyfolkart.typepad.com/folk_art_carved_and_paint/

ADDRESS

Art by Mary Shelley, 109 Park Place, Ithaca, NY, 14850

HOURS

By appointment at Shelley's Park Place studio; and Summer Saturdays (9am to 3pm) see me carve at my booth at the Ithaca Farmer's Market.

STUDIO DIRECTIONS

My home studio is in downtown Ithaca at 109 Park Place, overlooking Washington Park. Park Place runs perpendicular to Court Street and dead ends at Buffalo Street. Turn off Buffalo Street onto Park Place. My house is the third on the right, a yellow Victorian style house. The studio is in a renovated garage in back of the house. Get to the garage by walking down the driveway to the right of the house.

EDUCATION

Self taught as an artist, worked as a carpenter and sign painter
Cornell University, BA English Literature, 1972
Syracuse University, MSW, 1990

SELECTED GRANTS / AWARDS

Absolut Vodka Ad in Country Home Magazine, April, 1990
Saltonstall Grant, 1999
Commission for Coca-Cola at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics
Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund 1996.
New York State Council on the Arts Grant. 1989

COLLECTIONS

Smithsonian Institution. Washington, D.C.
American Museum in Britain. Bath, England.
High Museum. Atlanta, Georgia
American Folk Art Museum. New York City, New York.
National Museum of Women in the Arts. Washington, D.C.
Fenimore Art Museum, NYS Historical Assoc., Cooperstown, NY
Women's Rights National Historical Park, Seneca Falls, NY
Absolut Vodka Fine Art Collection.
World of Coca Cola, Atlanta, GA