Shelby Craze is an interdisciplinary artist exploring the intersection of fiber and the body. Through movement, she explores the ways in which we respond to the accumulation of experiences and incidents – physical, emotional, and psychological. The wear and tear of a textile mirrors the marks left by time, trauma, and joy – the scope of the human experience. Through her work, she investigates the intersection between the human body and the fibrous vessels that contain us throughout our lives – vessels that are contoured by use, weathered by time, and worthy of transformative care and preservation.
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2025 BFA in Sculpture - University of Houston
2019 Degree of Higher Education in Modern Ballet - Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
Exhibitions and Performances
2025 Group Exhibition, Craft Texas, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, Texas
2025 Solo Performance, Evolving Somatic Persistence, 12 Minutes Max: ESP short performance festival by Diverse Works at DeLUXE Theatre, Houston, Texas
2025 Group Exhibition, School of Art Student Exhibition, Blaffer Art Museum, Houston, Texas
2025 Sculpture Installation and Set Design, From the Gardens: Art Installation and Fashion Show, Moth Private Art House, Houston, Texas
2025 Solo Exhibition, Stretched Thin, Third Space Gallery at UH, Houston, Texas
2024 Collaborative Performance and Sculpture Installation, Testimony: Seen and Heard, Blaffer Art Museum (in collaboration with choreographer Toni Valle and composer George Heathco), Houston, Texas
2024 Solo Performance, Stubborn Dream, Persistent Delirium, The Orange Show Center for Visionary Art, Houston, Texas
2024 Group Exhibition, Echoes of Being, Elgin Street Studios, Houston, Texas
2024 Group Exhibition, School of Art Student Exhibition, Blaffer Art Museum, Houston, Texas
2023 Solo Performance, the space created by this uncomfortable language, The Orange Show Center for Visionary Art, Houston, Texas
2023 Group Exhibition, School of Art Student Exhibition, Blaffer Art Museum, Houston, Texas