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; Drawing Center in New York City; Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, NY; Butler Institute of Art in Youngstown, Ohio; and 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 –Education 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 as a visiting artist and scholar at Paradise Valley Community College in Scottsdale, AZ. Shadur’s work appears in many publications, books and catalogues, including Twentieth Century Watercolors, Abbeville Press; The Special Unit, Barlinnie Prison, Its Evolution Through Art, Third Eye Centre, Glasgow, Scotland; Community Murals: The People’s 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 numerous national exhibitions, most currently ‘Collaborative Vision:The Poetic Dialogue Project’, which will premiere at the Chicago Cultural Center, and then travel through 2009. In 2008, Shadur receivedthe Governor's International Arts Exchange Grant from the Illinois Arts Council to undertake a residency in County Clare, Ireland. In 2006, Shadur presented at the International Conference on Arts in Society in Edinburgh, Scotland, and her Poetic Dialogue Project was published in the International Journal on Arts In Society. During summer of 2008, Shadur participated in the Cool Globes public art project in Chicago, highlighting artists' solutions to global warming. (for more information, click here) Shadur has been a Ragdale Fellow and a Thomas Watson Fellow from Brown University, and served as Executive Director of ARC Gallery, Chicago. She is a member of the Watercolor USA Honor Society. Her work is owned in numerous private and public collections.