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Shirley Dort received her MFA in visual studies from Old Dominion University/Norfolk State University in 1988 and her BA from Texas A&I in 1971. From 1988-90 she taught Drawing I and II and Illustration at Thomas Nelson Community College. She has been teaching at VSU full time since Fall 1991. This year she is teaching Painting I and II, Drawing I and II, Life Drawing and Watercolor. In the past, she has taught Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Art Appreciation, Non-Western Art History, Crafts, and Basic Art for non-majors.
Shirley's art has been accepted in Juried exhibits such as National Works on Paper, Environmental Exhibit at the Peninsula Fine Arts Center, the Miniature Art show at The Hermitage, and the Landscape Juried show at the Cultural Arts Center in Glenn Allen. She has been in numerous invitationals and recently had a one person exhibit at The Montpelier Center for the Arts. A board member of the Petersburg Area Art League, she co-founded The Poet's Corner that meets there and was featured on PBS Currents. She was co-director of a juried Wort Art exhibit at PAAL and also had a one-person show incorporating her poetry and art. She collaborated with music professor David Shaffer-Gottschalk where she created art while David played the piano. This was performed before audiences 3 times. She has presented papers at the Popular Culture Association National Conference, at the National Association of African-American Studies, at the Conference on Feminist Scholarship, and at VSU's Brown Bag luncheon series. For the past three summers she has resided at Chautauqua Institution attending lectures, classes, workshops and seminars in the arts.
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