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Teaching, Lectures, Demonstrations and Workshops

2003
Instructor of Flameworking, Pilchuck School, Stanwood, WA
Instructor of Flameworking, Bild-Werk School, Frauenau, Germany
Instructor of Flameworking, The Studio at the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY
Instructor of Flameworking, Jacksonville State University, Jacksonville, AL
Instructor of Flameworking, ACC Southeast Regional Conference, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC
Visiting Artist, Celebration of Glass 2003, Glassworks, Louisville, KY
Curator, Lecture, Slide Show & Demo, the eclectic goblet, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO
Demonstration, Mint Museum of Craft & Design, Charlotte, NC

2002
Flameworking Workshop, Glasscraft Studios, Golden, CO
Guest Artist, Demo, and Slide Lecture, Alabama Clay Conference, Jacksonville State University, Jacksonville, AL
Guest Artist, Panel Discussion, & Demo, 2nd Annual Flamework Conference, Salem Community College, Carnyıs Point, NJ
Demo, 31st Annual Glass Art Societyıs Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Instructor of Flameworking, co-instructor Frederick Birkhill, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC

2001
Visting Lecturer, Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC
Instructor of Flameworking, co-instructor Frederick Birkhill, The Studio at the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY

2000
Visiting Artist and Instructor, 13th Annual Niijima Glass Arts Festival, Niijima Glass Center, Niijima, Japan
Instructor, Lecturer, and Artist Residency, Urbanglass, Brooklyn, NY
Instructor of Flameworking, co-instructor Frederick Birkhill, The Studio at the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY
Instructor of Flameworking, co-instructor Frederick Birkhill, University of Michigan, Dearborn, MI
Visiting Artist/Instructor, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC

1999
Instructor of Flameworking, co-instructor Frederick Birkhill, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC
Instructor of Flameworking, co-instructor Frederick Birkhill, University of Michigan, Dearborn, MI
Instructor of Flameworking, Pratt Fine Arts Center, Seattle, WA
Visiting Artist, Kent State University, Demo and Slide Lecture, Kent, OH
Instructor of Flameworking, pre-conference workshop, Glass Art Society's 28th Conference, Seto, Japan

1998
Demonstration, Glass Art Society's 28th Conference, Seto, Japan
Instructor of Flameworking, Urban Glass, Brooklyn, NY
Instructor of Flameworking, co-instructor Frederick Birkhill, University of Michigan, Dearborn, MI
Demonstration and Lecture, Exploratorium Museum, San Francisco, CA
Curator and Lecturer, Dreamscapes in Glass: Flamework Invitational, Stones Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1997
Instructor of Flameworking, co-instructor Frederick Birkhill, University of Michigan, Dearborn, MI
Instructor of Flameworking, co-instructor Frederick Birkhill, Touch of Glass, Asheville, NC
Instructor of Flameworking, co-instructor Frederick Birkhill, The Studio at the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning NY
Slide Show and Lecture, Cleveland Branch of the Contemporary Glass Allance, Cleveland, OH
Visting Artist, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC

1996
Instructor of Lampworking, co-instructor Frederick Birkhill, University of Michigan, Dearborn, MI
Instructor of Lampworking, Kittrell-Riffkind Art Glass, Dallas, TX
Instructor of Lampworking, co-instructor Frederick Birkhill, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC
Pre-Conference Workshop, co-instructor Frederick Birkhill, Gas Conference, Boston, MA

1995
Instructor of Lampworking, co-instructor Frederick Birkhill, University of Michigan, Dearborn, MI
Instructor of Lampworking, (March and September) Touch of Glass, Asheville, NC
Discussion Group Leader, 25th Anniversary of G.A.S. Conference, Asheville, NC
Lecture and Slideshow, co-lecturer Robert A Mickelsen, Flameworking, A World-Wide Overview, 25th Anniversary G.A.S. Conference, Asheville, NC
Lecture and Slideshow, 3rd Annual Glass Beadmakerıs Society Conference, Evanston, IL
Instructor of Flameworking (workshop), Urban Glass, Brooklyn, NY
Instructor of Lampworking, co-instructor Frederick Birkhill, Summer Arts Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

1994
Instructor of Lampworking, co-instructor Frederick Birkhill, University of Michigan, Dearborn, MI
Slide Show, Lecture, and Demo, Glass Craft Expo '94, Las Vegas, NV
Lecture and Demo, Mindscape Gallery, Evanston, IL

1993
Lecture and Demo, Glass Studio Inferno, New Orleans, LA
Preconference Workshop, Gas Conference, University Of Michigan, Dearborn, MI

1990-1993
Instructor of Lampworking, co-instructor Frederick Birkhill, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC

1992
Lecture and Workshop, Bead Society of Greater Washington, Chevy Chase, MD

1991
Lampworking Demonstration, Pilchuck Collector's Weekend, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA
Lampworking Demonstration, The Glass Overview, Glass Collectors Week, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC

1990
Guest Artist-Lampworking Demonstration, Foothills Craft Guild, Oak Ridge, TN
Slide Presentation Forum, The Arts Center, St. Petersburg, FL
Lampworking Demonstration, Sponsored by Sun Bank and The Arts Center, St. Petersburg, FL

1989
Guest Artist/ Lampworking Demonstration, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC

1987-1988
Lampworking Workshops, Windseye Studios, Tampa, FL

1985
Lampworking Demonstration, St. Petersburg Fine Art Museum, St. Petersburg, FL

1979-1980
Lampworking Lecture, Slideshow, and Demonstration, Plattsburg State University, Plattsburg, NY

1977-1980
Individual Instructor, Apprentice, Craig Wheeler
Individual Instructor, Apprentice, Tim Tiernan

1976-1977
Eight Month Lampworking Demonstration Tour of Montreal, Quebec, and Ontario, Canada

Professional Experience

1981
Co-Owned and Operated Renaissance Craft Gallery and Studio, Plattsburg, NY
1977-80
Co-Owned and Operated Classical Glass Craft Gallery and Studio, Plattsburg, NY
1976-77
Co-Owned and Operated LeVerrier, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Published Reviews

Profitable Glass Quarterly, It's the Fred & Shane Show, cover/feature article, Marcy Davis, pps 1, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, Spring Edition, 2003
Biographical Encyclopedia of American Painters, Sculptors, and Engravers of the US, Colonial to 2002, Published by Dealer's Choice Books, Inc. Land of Lakes, FL
American Craft, photo p. 7, Dec Issue 02 / Jan 03
St. Louis Post Dispatch, Style West, eclectic goblets, article and interview, Barbara Hertenstein, 3/13/03
The Glass Art Society 2002 Journal, Elements of Flameworking on a Hothead, or the True Nature of the Demo, Shane Fero, p. 114, 2002
American Craft, photo p. 99, April Issue - May 2002
Who's Who In American Arts, 2002
Contemporary Glass, Color, Light, and Form, Ray Leier, Jan Peters and Kevin Wallace, Guild Publishing, Madison, WI, p. 63, 2001
Glass Art From Urban Glass, Richard Wilfred Yelle, published by Schiffer Publishing, L.T.D., p. 67, 2000
Contemporary Glass 2001, Eighteenth Annual International Glass Invitational, catalogue, published by Habatat Galleries, FL, pp. 82-83, 2000
Who's Who In The 21st Century, 1st Ed., published by the International Biographical Center, Melrose Press Ltd. Cambridge, England, 2001
Millenium Glass, an International Survey of Studio Glass, published by The Kentucky Art and Craft Foundation, p. 20, 2000
Contemporary Glass 2000, Seventeenth Annual International Glass Invitational, catalogue, published by Habatat Galleries, FL, p. 49, 2001
16th Annual International Glass Invitational, catalogue, published by Habatat Galleries, FL, p. 22, 2000
Arizona Daily Star, Imagery, critical review, Charlotte Love-Bailey, Philabaum Glass Gallery, p. 6, 2000
Portfolio, The Delicate Art of Romance, Catherine Dorsey, Virginia Beach, VA, February 9-13, 1999
Flameworking at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, A Shane Fero Retrospective, Catalogue 1999
American Style, Natural Resources, Sue Wasserman, Issue 17, p. 54, 1999
International New Glass, Venezia Aperto Vetro 1998, p. 240, Electa, Milano, Italy
Who's Who in American Arts, published by Marquis Who's Who, Division of Reed Elesvier, Inc., 1999
Dreamscape in Glass: Flamework Invitational, catalogue, Stones Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1998
American Craft, April/May issue, p. 84, 1998
American Style, Glorious Goblets, Lynda McDaniel, p. 60, photo p. 39, issue 14, 1998
Glass, Shane Fero, Myth, Magic, and Spirit, Joan Falconer Byrd, issue 69, pp. 22-27
Southern Living, pp 18CL - 25CL, December 1997
Art Matters (Philadephia Publication), Review of Contemporary Flameworked Glass, p. 21, July 1997
Catalogue For Habatat's 15th International Glass Invitational, 1997-1998, Boca Raton, FL, pps. 27, 74
American Style, A New Facet For an Old Medium, Karen Chambers, p. 37, photo p. 5, 1997
Contemporary Flameworked Glass Booklet, Museum of American Glass, catalogue, p. 11, 1997
Glass Gallery Show, Koan, Volume V, Number 1, pps 20 ­ 21, April 1997
Los Angles Times, photographic feature and critical mention, 5/2/96
1st Ten Years Anniversary Exhibition; catalogue, Glasmuseum, Ebeltoft, Denmark, 1996
Breaking The Glass Mold, exhibition catalogue, Huntsville Museum of Art,1996
25 AT 25, 25th Anniversary Exhibition, catalogue, Society For Contemporary Crafts, 1996
Sofa Chicago, catalogue, 1996
Sofa Miami, catalogue, 1996
American Craft Magazine, portfolio, p. 57, Dec / Jan 95/96
Glass from North Carolina, catalogue, Glasmuseum, Ebeltoft, Denmark, 1995
North Carolina Glass., The Next Generation Booklet, catalogue, Western North Carolina University, NC, 1995
North Carolina Glass Focus, 25th Anniversary G.A.S. Show, catalogue, Blue Spiral 1, Asheville, NC, 1995
Contemporary Lampworking: A Practical Guide to Shaping Glass in the Flame, Bandhu Scott Dunham, Salusa Glassworks, 1995
Glass Art Magazine, The Flame Grew Brighter: A Lampworking Overview, cover, photo and article, co-written with Robert A. Mickelsen, Sept./ Oct. 1995
Who's Who in Contemporary Glass, Waldrich Verlag, Germany,1st Edition 93/94
Glass Magazine, The New York Biennial of Glass, Issue 57, Autumn Edition, 1994
Asheville Citizen Times, Dancing in a Garden of Light, critical review, Asheville, NC, 4/8/94
Denver's Westword Weekly, Dream Weavers, critical review of three-person show at Sandy Carson Gallery, Denver, CO, 4/8/94
Ann Arbor News, critical review of two-person show at Rebecca Berman Pelletier Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI, 4/17/94
Asheville Citizen-Times, Craft of the Carolinas, critical review, Asheville, NC, 3/27/94
Dancing in a Garden of Light, catalogue for the collection of Issac and Sonia Luski, 1994
Ann Arbor Observer, Ann Arbor, MI, 4/94
Metro Detroits' Spirit Magazine, Detroit, MI, 4/94
Attitude Problem, #17, Prescott, AZ
Art in New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, Oct-Dec 1993
Where / New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, 12/93
Columbia's, The State, Craft of the Carolinas, photographic feature and critical review, Columbia, SC, 11/1/94
New Orleans Times Picayune, critical review of solo exhibition, 11/12/93
Catalogue For "Craft Of The Carolinas", Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC, 11/93-1/94
Catalogue For "North Carolina Glass Reunion", Blue Spiral I, Asheville, NC, 8/93-9/93
Asheville Citizen-Times, Critical Review of "North Carolina Glass Reunion", Blue Spiral I, Asheville, NC, 8/29/93
Charlotte Observer, Photographic Feature, 9/3/93
Peachtree Magazine, Photographic Feature, Atlanta, GA, 3/93
Catalogue For "Glass America, The North Carolina Artists", Bell Gallery, Memphis, TN, 3/93-4/93
Glass Art Magazine, Scents & Non-Scents, June/July 1992
Louisville Courier-Journal, critical review of solo exhibition, 6/7/92
Dallas Life Magazine, 5/24/92
Masterworks of Contemporary Glass, New York Experimental Glass Workshop, benefit auction catalogue, Christie's, New York, 4/4/91
Penland To Tryon, catalogue, Upstairs Artspace, Tryon, NC, 12/91-1/92
Lampworked Glass Outside of Europe, Neues Glass, 4/91
Corning New Glass Review 12, 1991
The Times, critical review, 10/91
Glass Line Magazine, 1/90
St. Petersburg Times, Form, Function, Fun, 10/5/90
St. Petersburg Independent, 9/83
Plattsburg Press Republican, 1/78
Clinton County Record, 1978

Permanent Collections

Jacksonville State University, Jacksonville, AL
Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL
Pilchuck Glass School Collection, Stanwood, WA
Izu-Kogen Tombotama Museum, Ito City, Japan
North Carolina State University, Visual Arts Center, Raleigh, NC
Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL
Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC
New Orleans Museum Of Art, New Orleans, LA
Bank of America Corporate Collection, Tampa, FL
Arizona State University Museum at Tempe, AZ
University Of Michigan, Permanent Art Collection, Dearborn, MI
Glasmuseum, Ebeltoft, Denmark
Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL
Museum Of American Glass, Wheaton Village, Millville, NJ
Niijima Contemporary Glass Museum, Niijima, Japan
Museum Fur Glaskunst Lauscha, Lauscha, Germany