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Sheila Wyne

“The cast glass is fired twice.  First to form the shape.  Second to create the curved feather shape. The glass itself is made of clear frit with black frit soaking the tips of the feathers.  The black frit is reminiscent of oil soaked birds.”

Sheila Wyne has lived in Alaska since graduating from Wheaton College, Illinois. She has used the strengths of her community and the northern landscape to grow as an artist. Her work as a visual artist includes sculpture, public art commissions, set design, environmental design, and grass roots community art projects. Her artwork has been exhibited internationally. Since 1990 she has designed over a dozen public artworks. Wyne has been awarded a national NEA/TCG Fellowship in set design, a Rasmuson Artist Fellowship, a Boochever Fellowship and grants from the Alaska State Council on the Arts, and the Andy Warhol and Rockefeller Foundations.