About
Shelby Reed is an artist from Bucks County Pennsylvania. She attended The Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University where she earned her BFA with a concentration in ceramics along with an entrepreneurship certificate from The Fox School of Business. She is currently an MFA student in Studio Art with a concentration in Ceramics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
While she works mostly in ceramic, she also implements mixed media materials and processes. Experimentally using wire, resin, plaster, foam, yarn, wool, spray paint, beads, and more. These individual materials and repeated ceramic forms come together to create her colorful, organic, and maximalist sculptural works.
After completing undergrad Shelby was able to travel and participate in several opportunities at craft schools around the country. She was selected for studio assistantships at Penland School of Craft and Pocosin Arts School of Fine Craft. She was also selected to attend a three-week summer intensive at Ox Bow School of Art where she was able to learn welding and other metal working processes. Lastly, she was selected to attend the Maxwell/ Hanrahan Residency at Peter’s Valley School of Craft.
She has also been working on an exhibition for the Philadelphia International Airport, creating five new large scale sculptural works. The pieces will be installed in November of 2023 in Terminal A-West and remain on display for six months.