<div dir="ltr"><img src="cid:ii_mufu8z110" alt="Shadwell (400 KB) (1).jpg" width="542" height="542"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.5rem;padding:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:1.5rem;background-position:center top;background-repeat:no-repeat;word-break:break-word;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:AvenirLT-Medium,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Shelby Shadwell, Drawing & Painting Artist, is currently a Professor of Drawing in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Wyoming. Mr. Shadwell<span style="background-color:transparent"> will give a presentation via Zoom on Wednesday, September 30, 2026, at 6 p.m.</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.5rem;padding:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:1.5rem;background-position:center top;background-repeat:no-repeat;word-break:break-word;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:AvenirLT-Medium,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;background-position:center top;background-repeat:no-repeat;word-break:break-word;margin-bottom:0px">Shadwell’s work consists of large-scale drawings and paintings of non-traditional imagery such as gut piles left over from big game hunts, space blankets used in emergency situations to stay warm, black plastic trash bags and pieces of black anthracite coal. The work may elicit feelings of disgust or revulsion and awe or ecstasy simultaneously due to the contrast between the vulgarity or ephemerality of the imagery juxtaposed with its meticulous, hyper-realistic rendering. Among other things, Shelby’s work allows viewers space to ask questions about low and high status in artistic subject matter and romantic tropes in historical and contemporary western art.</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.5rem;padding:0px;line-height:1.5rem;background-position:center top;background-repeat:no-repeat;word-break:break-word"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-size:18px"><font color="#000000" face="AvenirLT-Medium, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The Visual Artist Series is made possible through the support of the Student Association.  All presentations are free and open to the public.  </font></span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.5rem;padding:0px;line-height:1.5rem;background-position:center top;background-repeat:no-repeat;word-break:break-word"><span style="background-color:transparent"><font color="#000000" face="AvenirLT-Medium, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:18px">Zoom link:</span></font></span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.5rem;padding:0px;line-height:1.5rem;background-position:center top;background-repeat:no-repeat;word-break:break-word"><span style="background-color:transparent"></span><span style="background-color:transparent"><font size="4">Join Zoom Meeting</font></span></p><font size="4"><a href="https://plattsburgh.zoom.us/j/89874988711" target="_blank">https://plattsburgh.zoom.us/j/89874988711</a><br><br>Join and take notes<br><a href="https://plattsburgh.zoom.us/j/89874988711?mynotes=on" target="_blank">https://plattsburgh.zoom.us/j/89874988711?mynotes=on</a><br><br>Meeting ID: 898 7498 8711</font><div class="gmail-yj6qo"></div><div class="gmail-adL"></div><div class="gmail-adL"><br></div><div><br></div></div>