Amelia V.B. Shull

 
I studied Eastern European art in Poland through UNCGreensboro's studio art program.  I (somehow) got a job at Christie's and ended up some days trying to figure out if a slide of a Van Gogh was real or not.  I interned at ArtistSpace in Soho, tearing down, then putting up walls in their exhibition space.  Volunteered at Creativity Explored in San Francisco where sixty amazing adults with Developmental Disabilities have their own art studio.  Worked at Southeastern Camera for years, taught Experimental Photography classes, and waited tables in Carrboro and Durham.  Coordinated the Children's Programs at the Durham Arts Council and directed their Summer Programs.  I am currently loving my job as the Upper School Art teacher at Carolina Friends School, teaching every medium possible as well as Art History.  I have started a nonprofit called G.L.A.M. (Girls Leading in Arts & Music) with my close friends to create opportunities for girls to explore their ideas of Confidence, Community and Creativity.  I have a hard time stopping, so when it's time to make artwork to be exhibited, I work with Salt, Albumen and Cyanotype, primarily using these processes as tools for relaxation, mixing chemicals and hand-coating my own papers and proceeding at a much slower pace than I usually live in.  Often my photos are reflections on the past, a past unknown by me, where women exist in completely different worlds removed from traditional roles.  Basically, I play with the ideas of strength, calm and mystery vs. exhaustion, excitement and volume.