Lynne Shineman graduated The University of Nebraska with a Masters in Art Education. She has continued her education with various classes and summer workshops at Savannah College of Art and Design,, UNC's Osher Program and the Leland Cultural Arts Center in North Carolina. She was an art educator at the high school and college level as well as a presenter and teacher at various workshops and Art Center classes. As a working artist Lynne has maintained her own studio, where she has several looms, works with weaving, sewing, paper making, printmaking and painting.
As a strong supporter of arts in the community, Lynne was President of the Leland Cultural Arts Center, the non-profit support group of a Large art center in Leland, North Carolina before moving to Ocala four years ago.
Statement
I like to work with a variety of materials, objects from nature, my handmade paper and various dyes and paints. Some times I even sew on the paper. As a weaver and collage artist, texture and natural colors and fibers are my go to palette. The flowers, leaves and twigs are dried and pressed in a traditional method, preserving them for life or added to the paper mulch. The paper is recycled egg cartons, art paper, and various papers from my paper shredder, thus turning old paper into a new material.
