My name is Paul Glenshaw.
I am an artist, filmmaker, author and educator with more than 25 years' experience working across disciplines in the arts, history, and sciences.
I am based in the Washington DC area. Clients include museums, magazines, foundations, government, universities, and arts organizations locally and around the country. In addition to art, writing, films, and education, projects include primary research, exhibit design and content, photography, fundraising, and media production.
Contact: paul (at) glenshawcreative (dot) com
Follow the links below for recent work:
New series of drawings made at the Folger Shakespeare Library
Filmmaker:
Co-director, co-producer, co-writer The Lafayette Escadrille, a documentary film in production about the young Americans who risked everything to volunteer for France in World War I.
Producer: Anacostia Delta - Home of the World's Great "Unknown" Guitarists a documentary film in production about the great players of Washington DC.
Co producer, co-writer, Barnstorming, an award winning documentary about the unexpected friendship created when two pilots landed in a farmer's field. Aired nationally on PBS, 2009-2012.
Regular contributor, Air & Space Smithsonian magazine. Subjects cover the full range of aviation history.
Author, To Swing Through the Sky. A new work for theater commissioned by George Mason University about the surprising twin histories of jazz and powered flight. Performed in 2016 and 2017 by the Metropolitan Jazz Orchestra.
Radio commentator, NPR affiliate WYSO
Educator:
Art Instructor, Smithsonian Institution. I teach drawing: perspective, object drawing, drawing in museums.
Volunteer art instructor, Greentree Adolescent Program, National Center for Children and Families
Lecturer, Smithsonian Associates
STEM and STEAM projects for Fairfax County Public Schools, Jazz at Lincoln Center
2006-Present: Principal, Glenshaw Creative, Inc.
2005-2014: Executive Director, The Discovery of Flight Foundation
2000-2004: Vice President/Producer, Cognitive Applications, Inc.
1996-2000: Webmaster/Interactive producer, The National Museum of African Art
1994-1996: Interactive producer, Micro Gallery Project, The National Gallery of Art
1989-1994: Exhibit Specialist, The National Gallery of Art
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