Shelley Laband
Illustration professor
Education
- M.F.A., illustration, University of Hartford
- B.F.A., illustration, Savannah College of Art and Design
Credentials
- Freelance illustrator and portrait artist, May 2008-present
- Professor, fall 2016-present, Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta
- Instructor, June 2016-July 2016, Atlanta Artists Center, Atlanta
- Instructor, January 2016-February 2016, Atlanta Artists Center, Atlanta
- Instructor, May 2012-July 2012, Jan Dempsey Community Arts Center, Auburn, AL
- Guest lecturer and teaching assistant, spring quarter 2012, Southern Union Community College, Opelika, AL
- Instructor, January 2009-May 2009, Auburn University, Auburn, AL
- President, 2007-2008, departmental organization, Society of Illustrators
- Treasurer 2006-2007, departmental organization, Society of Illustrators
- Tutor, September 2006-January 2008, Drawing and Design Center, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
- Intern, June 2007-September 2007, The National Museum of American Illustration, Newport, RI
- Intern, June 2006-September 2006, Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, Auburn, AL
Awards, recognitions, and honors
- Director's Merit Award, invitational exhibit Figuratively Speaking, Bowen Center for the Arts, Dawsonville, Ga., 2016
- Honorable Mention, Dogwood Show, Spring Spectacular, Grandview Gallery, Atlanta, 2016
- Second Place, Fruits of Our Labor, Grandview Gallery, Atlanta, 2015
- Honorable Mention, 60th Anniversary Dogwood Show, Grandview Gallery, Atlanta, 2014
- Best in Show, 8th Annual Auburn City Fest Juried Art Exhibition, Historic Nunn-Winston House, Auburn, Ala., 2012
- Runner up, professional illustration category, Creative Quarterly Magazine, 2009
- Artistic Designer of Pacemaker Award-winning edition of Collegiate Literary Magazine Marr's Field Journal, University of Alabama, 2009
- Bronze medal, International Student Illustration Competition, 3x3, The Magazine of Contemporary Illustration, 2008
- Illustration included in faculty-selected exhibition A Class Act: Best Student Work of 2006-2007, 2008
- Third-place winner, color theory category, 2006 Foundations Honor Show
- Second-place winner, SCAD Foundations Portfolio Exhibition, 2006
- First-place winner from the third district of Alabama, Congressional Arts Competition, 2004
Organizations
- Portrait Society of America, member, 2013-present
- Portrait Society of Atlanta, member, 2013-present
- Atlanta Artists Center, member, 2014-present
- Society of Illustrators, student chapter, president 2007-2008, treasurer 2006-2007
Publications and presentations
- Featured Showcase Artist: IX 9, Reading, Pa.., 2016
- Metro Montage XVI, Marietta Cobb Museum of Art, Marietta, Ga., 2016
- Cover Artist: Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, Vol. 248, No. 6, March 2016
- Metro Montage XV, Marietta Cobb Museum of Art, Marietta, Ga., 2015
- Portrait Society of Atlanta Fall 2015 Juried Exhibition, Marietta Cobb Museum of Art, Marietta, Ga., 2015
- Reflections, The Fourth Annual Virginia Avery Memorial Georgia Pen Women's Juried Art Show, Quinlan Visual Arts Center, Gainesville, Ga., 2015.
- Portrait Society of Atlanta Members Only Juried Exhibition, diDomizio's Art Center, Roswell, Ga., 2014
- 60th Anniversary Dogwood Show, Grandview Gallery, Atlanta, Ga., 2014
- Portrait Society of Atlanta Fall 2013 Juried Exhibition, Marietta Cobb Museum of Art, Marietta, Ga., 2013
- Society of Illustrators of LA: 51, Nucleus Gallery, Pasadena, Calif., 2013
- Portrait Society of Atlanta Summer 2012 Juried Exhibition, Gwinnett Historic Courthouse, Lawrenceville, Ga., 2012
- 14th Annual Auburn Arts Association Juried Art Show, Jan Dempsey Community Arts Center, Auburn, Ala., 2012
- Year of the Rabbit, Moot Gallery, Hong Kong, 2011
- Featured artist, State Street Gallery, Madison, Wisc., 2009-2010
- Featured artist, New Talent Gallery of 3x3, the Magazine of Contemporary Illustration, 2008-2011
- Solo exhibition, Shelley Laband, Illustration and Portraiture, Auburn University Telfair B. Peet Theater, Auburn, Ala., 2009