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about the artist

Shanna Fliegel is a ceramic artist, educator, and workshop instructor based in Massachusetts. Her work bridges drawing and sculpture through hand-built ceramic wall pieces and vessels that investigate landscape, ecology, and memory using layered surface techniques, including printmaking, carving, slips, and glaze.

Shanna Fliegel – CV

Education
 

  • MFA, Studio Art – Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville (2009)

  • BFA, Studio Art – James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA (2001)
     

Teaching
 

  • Art Faculty, Sidwell Friends School, Washington, D.C.

  • Assistant Professor of Art, Montana State University Billings (2010–2014)

  • Art & Ceramics Faculty, The Governor’s Academy, Byfield, MA (current)
     

Residencies
 

  • Cub Creek Foundation, Appomattox, VA

  • Pentaculum, Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts, TN

  • Kent Island, Canada

  • Greenwich House Pottery, New York, NY

  • Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, MT

  • Clay Art Center, Port Chester, NY

  • Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, Newcastle, ME

  • Guldagergaard International Ceramic Research Center, Denmark

  • International Artist Exchange, France
     

Selected Exhibitions
 

  • Bowdoin College, ME

  • Boston Sculptors Gallery, MA

  • Featherstone Center for the Arts, Martha’s Vineyard, MA

  • 3S Artspace, Portsmouth, NH

  • Truro Center for the Arts, Truro, MA
     

Workshops
 

  • La Meridiana, International School of Ceramics in Tuscany, Italy (Summer 2026)

  • Castle Hill, Truro Center for the Arts, MA

  • Gaya Ceramic Arts Center, Bali, Indonesia

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