Regional Commissions:
 Enoch Pratt Central Library, Cathedral Street, Baltimore, MD.
    Ceramic relief of the original 1880's Enoch Pratt Library façade. Commissioned by the   
    Friends of Enoch Pratt Free Library, Inc.

 Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD
     Mosaic map of the ancient and medieval world.

 Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
      Mosaic table designed for the exhibition, “Antioch, The Lost Ancient City”.

 Basilica of the Assumption, Cathedral Street, Baltimore, MD.
      Papal shield for the jubilee year.
 
 St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, 1900 St. Paul Street, Baltimore, MD.  
      Mosaic image of the Winged Lion of St. Mark. 
      Mosaic processional cross.

 St, Xavier's Roman Catholic Church, Hunt Valley, Baltimore, MD.
     Baptismal Font
     Stations of the cross

 Westchester Elementary School, Baltimore, MD         
      Three dimensional mosaic mural.

Education:            Bachelor of Science in Fine Arts
                             Towson State University, 1977       
1980:                    Co-founder of Baltimore Clayworks.
1980-1996:           Instructor of tile making, relief sculpture & mold making at                                   
                             Clayworks.
1983 to 2001:       Instructor of pottery and sculpture at
                             The Waxter Center, Baltimore, MD.
1993 to present:   Instructor of mosaics and stained glass at the Mt. Royal Terrace Studio.
1996 to present:   Founder of Theatre Serenissima.
                             Numerous performances at the American Visionary
                             Art Museum and the Creative Alliance.
 1997 to 2005:      Consultant & designer for Gibbons of Baltimore, Church Interiors.
 2005 to present:  Instructor of mosaics at the American Visionary Art Museum.
 In addition, works sold through various galleries, exhibitions and museum shops:                      
                                       American Craft Council, Winter Market
                                       Gomez Gallery
                                       Pendragon Gallery
                                       Paper, Rock, Scissors Gallery
                                       American Visionary Art Museum
                                       Artscape
                                       Paradiso Gallery
                                       Baltimore Museum of Art Shop
             In 2007 a retrospective “Serenissima, The Worlds of Rick Shelley” was exhibited at the Creative Alliance in Baltimore.

                                    The abandoned Carr Lowrey Glass Factory, Baltimore, Maryland: Fields and mountains of glass for recycling. Now gone.

Rick Shelley's studio at Clayworks in the 1980's and 90's.

My Hands

                                                              Clown with Balloons, Color Study, 1959.                                                                                                                                             Hand colored crayon on Mimeograph Paper
                                                                           Earliest known work by Rick Shelley 
                                      
               At the age of five and a half, Shelley began first grade at Parkville Elementary School. He learned to match words with colors and kept his crayon markings mostly inside the lines. G in upper left corner signifies that the work was considered good by Shelley's first grade teacher.
   
  

                                                                      George Washington, 1963
                                                            Plasticene clay and paper around pot metal bust.

         In the early 1960's Shelley experimented with mixed media: balsa wood, soap, and play dough. Most works have been lost, a few fragments remain.