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2024 Venice Biennial Project Finalist, Venice, Italy

2023

Royal Society of Painter- Printmakers Exhibition, London, England

Squam Lake Conservation Society, Holderness, NH

MIT, Boston, MA

Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA 

Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, Connecticut 

2022

Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA

Squam River Studio

Newport Art Museum Artist in Resident 

2021

Pilchuck Glass School and the Museum of Glass Artist in Resident

Zea Mays Artist in Resident 

2020

2019

Combining all of the experience and exploration, Shani launches the Seeds of Change Project - fabrication of eco-sustainable products inspired by seeds in the  Global Seed Vault. Stay tuned for more information.

Shani was featured as a Guest Lecturer and Artist in Residence at the University of Hawaii, Monoa. Her lecture series was on printmaking and glass and was entitled "Seeds from Screen to Print"

2018

Shani was awarded a stint as an Artist in Residence at the Museum of Glass. Her residency concentrated on vitreography/serigraphy process in blown glass and became known as the Blown Glass Seed Project.

Shani became one of five artists chosen as a Hauberg Fellow at the Pilchuck Glass School. The artists collaborated on a book, with Shani's portion being an investigation of vitreography and serigraphy. The book publication is scheduled for 2019.

Moving from prints to textiles, the Seed Project took on another life in Camac, France. Shani began exploring this medium change as the recipient of the Frank Teton Fellowship.

2017

The Seed Print Collection continued to offer inspiration and opportunities for exploration arose with a residency at Scoula Venice Grafica in Venice, Italy.

Further exploring the impacts of climate change, Shani's work was exhibited at The Museum of the White Mountains. The exhibit, Forecasting: Climate Change and Water Impact, represented the climate crisis in 5 oceans

As a guest of the Joshua Tree Highlands Artist in Residency program; Shani was able to devote time and attention to her photo document collection from Svalbard and the Arctic Circle

2016

Additional work related to the Seed Projects included a "Seed" exhibition at the McGowan Gallery commissioned by the New Hampshire State Arts Council 

Shani was the recipient of the Swedish American Fund Grant for the “Engineering the Glass Seed”,  a STEAM based initiative to be taught nationally and internationally to youth. The focus of the project was to teach about climate change and importance of the Global Seed Vault through a multidisciplinary curriculum. Shani taught the course in Sweden to a group of Syrian refugee adolescents as part of an art and trauma program at the Glass Factory in Kosta Boda, Sweden, as an enrichment course for students from the Tacoma School of the Arts at the Museum of Glass, Tacoma and at Dartmouth College. The curriculum has been adopted by the NH State Arts Council and is taught in local communities in New Hampshire. 

2015

Arctic Expedition: Shani, along with a handful of international artists traveled on the Antigua and sailed to 78 degrees north in the Arctic Circle. The project was to witness climate change first hand and document their findings through an artistic process. The voyage also took them to the Global Seed Vault in Svalbard, Norway

2014

Artist in Residence at the famed Museum of Glass with the Demaines to further explore traditional serigraphy methods blown into hot glass

Collaborative projects with Dartmouth Thayer School of Engineering graduate students, ending with the development of several kinetic and lit sculptures, using 3d printing techniques and laser cutting, in conjunction with kiln formed glass techniques. A special kiln designed to withstand subzero temperatures was also developed.

Continuing her artistic collaborative with the Demaines, along with Peter Houk ,the Director of the MIT Glass Lab, Shani began work on a new technique - screenprinting on blown glass. This led to the creation of the Littleton Tree -  a blown glass sculpture screen printed with the imagery of the cellular structure of a fir tree originally grown on the property that now is home to the Pilchuck Glass School. This piece was an homage to famed vitreographer and glass artist Harvey Littleton.

2013

Began working with Martin Demaine and Dr. Erik Demaine translating their Curved-Crease Sculptures into kiln glass panels. This led to an exhibition at the Edwards Gallery.

Much of the first part of the year following the Emerge competition was spent working on perfecting the serigraphy (screenprinting on glass) technique and developing motifs based on the cellular structure of plants

2012

Much of the first part of the year following the Emerge competition was spent working on perfecting the serigraphy (screenprinting on glass) technique and developing motifs based on the cellular structure of plants

1995

Shani's passion for combining print and glass is evident from a early series of glass printed tables she produced in the mid 1990’s.