Ceramic artists Arleo, Shellenbarger to present Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist Lecture

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• Thursday, Oct 30, 2025  5:30pm

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Arts

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The UNL Clay Club welcomes two visiting ceramic artists, Adrian Arleo and Jane Shellenbarger, who will present successive Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist & Scholar Lectures on Thursday, Oct. 30 at 5:30 p.m. at Sheldon Museum of Art’s Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium. The lectures are free and open to the public.

Arleo studied art and anthropology at Pitzer College and received her M.F.A. in ceramics from Rhode Island School of Design.

She was an artist-in-residence at Oregon College of Art and Craft, at Sitka Center for Art and Ecology and in 2012 was an invited artist for the Jordan Schnitzer Printmaking Residency, also at Sitka Center for Art and Ecology.

Her work is exhibited nationally and internationally and is in numerous public and private collections. She has received awards from the Virginia A. Groot Foundation in 1991 and 1992, and in 1995, was awarded a Montana Arts Council Individual Fellowship. Her work has been widely published in books, magazines, and on the internet.

Shellenbarger was born in Detroit, Michigan. She was a CORE student at Penland School of Crafts, Penland, North Carolina, from 1987-1989.

She received her B.F.A. degree from the Kansas City Art Institute and her M.F.A. from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Following graduate school, she worked as a resident artist at the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts in Helena, Montana. She established her studio pottery, Mill Station Pottery, in rural Hale, Michigan, in 1997.

Currently she is a professor and graduate program director at Rochester Institute of Technology in the School for American Crafts. She has taught at Northern Michigan University, Kansas City Art Institute, the University of Northern Iowa, Penland School of Crafts and Haystack Mountain School of Crafts. She has exhibited her work in several galleries around the country.