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South Loop Community Garden CelebrationCelebrate my three new public art projects, including my collaboration with Erin Genia! Event InfoSaturday, June 29 rain date: June 30 1 - 4 p.m. South Loop Community Garden 2263 E Old Shakopee Rd, Bloomington, MN ParkingAddressHometown Church 2300 East 88th Street, Bloomington, MN |
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South Loop Community Garden CelebrationCelebrate my three new public art projects, including my collaboration with Erin Genia! Event InfoSaturday, June 29 rain date: June 30 1 - 4 p.m. South Loop Community Garden 2263 E Old Shakopee Rd, Bloomington, MN ParkingAddressHometown Church 2300 East 88th Street, Bloomington, MN |
seeding/seeping
new work by Sheila NovakMy upcoming solo show at Cornell University!
Opening Reception
Thursday, June 6, 20245:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
on view
June 3 - June 25
Yušká: Uncoil
The Boston Center for the Arts 27th Drawing ShowOpening Reception
Friday, May 17 | 6-9 p.m.BCA Mills Gallery, 551 Tremont St., Boston, MA 02116
on view
May 11 - August 3The Storied Maple
A Storytelling Event at a Community Maple Sap Boil The Soil Factory, Ithaca, NYSaturday, March 23, 2024, 1 - 4 PMrain date: Sunday, March 24
RSVP here
Art for Educations Sake
Art inspired by research about the natural worldMix Gallery, Ithaca, NY
Presenting Land Medicine
Opening Reception
Friday December 1, 2023, 5-8p
over and over
Cornell MFA Creative Visual Arts Group Exhibition
Opening Reception Thursday, October 12, 2023, 4:30p - 7p
Tjaden and Experimental Galleries
Cornell School of Architecture, Art and Planning
At Home in Chinatown:
A Residence Lab Retrospective Alumni Spotlight Panel
Saturday, September 23, 2023
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Pao Arts Center
99 Albany Street, Boston, MA
As part of our exhibition, At Home in Chinatown: A Residence Lab Retrospective, join us for a Residence Lab artist and resident alumni panel Saturday, September 23, from 1:00 pm –3:00 pm, featuring a discussion on community-engaged public art and the future of Boston Chinatown.
Featuring: Maggie Chen, Amanda Beard Garcia, Pihua Lin, Sheila Novak, and Krina Patel, moderated by Lily Song, exhibit curator and urban planner, scholar-activist, and Assistant Professor of Race, Social Justice & the Built Environment at Northeastern University.
It’s an Open Studio Sendoff!
Sunday, July 9, 2023As I pack up my life in Boston, I’m excited to invite you to visit my creative sanctuary in Jamaica Plain - my studio! I’ll have refreshments, treats, music, and a host of things to sell, barter, or trade.
Come by the Fenreffer Studio on Sunday, July 9 (11a-6p) to enjoy some refreshments, music, and tasty treats for this studio open house! Get a little piece of the Sheila Studio for your life, or just come get a refreshment and a hug. I look forward to seeing you!
A Ritual for New Growth
May 31-June 14, 2022; RSVP required
This project is supported by a Transformative Public Art grant from the City of Boston Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture.
inPUBLIC: REST
The Second Wednesday of the Month 12pm - 2pm throughout Boston and beyond!This project is a collaboration between DS4Si, the Emerald Necklace Conservancy, Franklin Park Coalition, Greenway Conservancy and Olmstead Now
Studio visit with Cheryl Wing-Zi Wong
Thursday, March 3, 6-7 PM on Zoom RSVP here
In a curatorial collaboration between the Pao Arts Center and the Greenway Conservancy, we are producing an architectural installation and performance series for the Year of the Tiger. Join me and the artist for a studio visit with Cheryl Wing-Zi Wong, who will be creating the “Year of the Tiger Pavillion” on March 3 to learn more!
abundance among us
Display in Mary Soo Hoo Park on The Greenway extended until November 30, 2021Residence Lab 2021: a partnership of the Pao Arts Center and Asian Community Development Corporation
inPUBLIC Festival
October 29-31, 2021Downtown Crossing, Boston, MA
Design Studio for Social Intervention
Residence Lab 2021 Kick Off
Friday August 27, 2021 5:00 - 8:00 PMMary Soo Hoo Park on The Greenway
Boston, MA
Rural Routes: Rural Public Art Perspectives
Reedsburg Arts LinkMay 6, 7-8 PM CST
REGISTER HERE
What are the particular challenges and advantages of creating art within rural settings? How is public art in rural places impacting communities? Post pandemic, what new opportunities do leaders in the field see for rural places?
The Cake Stand
an alternative art/project/exhibition/space based in Farmingdale, MaineApril, 20201
View here
Sun Print Banner Making Workshop
May 22, various times, Reedsburg, WIOpen Studio - private visits for COVID safety
April 3 & 4, 2021In-person in Jamaica Plain or on Zoom
Curating for the Chinese Zodiac
January 28, 2021A conversation hosted by the Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy
watch the recoding here
From Our Garden to Yours
Urbano Project Youth Artist Virtual ShowcaseSeptember 23rd, 6:00 - 7:30 PM
watch the recording here
FLUVIAL: 2020 Farm/Art DTOUR
Fermentation Fest Sept 26 - Oct 4 2020created by the Wormfarm Institute
Gardening for community during a pandemic
The Prosperity Garden Network in conversation with CoVictory GardensJuly 20, 2020
Hosted by theUrbano Project
Panelists
Kirk Rea, Co-Executive Director for City Repair (Portland, OR)
Michael Bernard Stevenson Jr., Artist-in-Residence for City Repair
Sheila Novak, Artist-in-Residence for the Summer 2020 at Urbano
watch the full webinar here
Women Eco Arts Dialouge
10 artists highlighted during Women’s History Month.April 2, 2020
Let Yourself Be Lifted
collaboration with Jackie Scott, MFA TX 2020 at RISD,I was featured in the RISD Pandemic Publishing Vol. I.
2019 emerging artists exhibition
Cambridge Arts Association opening reception july 11, 2019 6-8p
do you remember?
reception friday march 1, 2019 7-9ppress release
gallery 263
collage
A R E A (SoWa) // boston // 2017watch
a brief interview filmed by JAMM which details some of the concepts, processes, and motivation behind my workColgada
Rochester, MNnews
OviOvaOvum
2016Hopkins Center for the Arts
Chait Galleries Small Works Show // Iowa City, IA // 2014
Winner of the Art Purchase Prize // Iowa City Public Library