Beth Shadur:
CLASS OF 1971
New Trier West High SchoolClass of 1971
Northfield, IL
Beth's Story
Life
Beth Shadur is an artist who has exhibited widely in solo and group exhibitions in the United States and abroad, including at the Art Institute of Chicago; the Drawing Center in New York City; the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, NY; the Butler Institute of Art in Youngstown, Ohio; and at the Colorado Springs Art Museum, Colorado Springs, CO. She has created over 125 large public murals as public, private and community art projects in both the United States and Great Britain. She is an Artist-in ÂEducation for the Illinois Arts Council in Chicago, IL. She has taught and served as a visiting artist at many colleges and universities, including Northwestern University, Evanston, IL; Northeast Missouri State University, Kirksville, MO; and most recently as a visiting artist and scholar at Paradise Valley Community College in Scottsdale, AZ. ShadurÂs work appears in many publications, books and catalogues, including Twentieth Century Wate...Expand for more
rcolors, Abbeville Press; The Special Unit, Barlinnie Prison, Its Evolution Through Art, Third Eye Centre, Glasgow, Scotland; Community Murals: The PeopleÂs Art, Associated University Press, NJ; and Art and Cartography, Art Institute of Chicago. Her mural work in Barlinnie Prison, Glasgow , Scotland is included in the archives of the Peoples Palace Museum in Glasgow. Shadur has lectured widely on community arts in both the United States and abroad. She has curated several national exhibitions, most currently ÂThe Poetic Dialogue: Poetry: Women: Art at ARC Gallery in Chicago. Shadur has been a Ragdale Fellow and a Thomas Watson Fellow from Brown University. She has been a presenter at the International Conference for Arts in Society in Edinburgh, Scotland. Her work is owned in many private and public collections.
Beth is married to New Trier West graduate Bruce Mainzer ('70), and has a son, Jordan, who is a junior in high school.
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