Maria’s works have been exhibited in several museums and held in important collections nationally and internationally. Oils are her main focus and her work is available in Giclee’ prints.

Memberships and Affiliations

• Founding Member: Board of Directors, Willamette Valley Arts Council
• President/Founder: American Academy of Women Artists, (retired)
• Co-Founder/President: The Other Side of the West
• Artist/Consultant/Historian: Pageant of the Masters, Laguna Beach California

Museum Exhibitions

• Women Artists and the West; Tucson Fine Art Museum, Arizona
• Clymer Museum, Ellensburg, Washington
• American Academy of Women Artists; Desert Caballeros Museum, Wickenburg Arizona
• Arizona Historical Society Museum, Phoenix
• Bush Museum, Salem Oregon
• The Other Side of the West, Desert Caballeros Museum, Wickenburg Arizona

Author

• Book: Artists of the Pacific Northwest to 1970, MacFarland Publishing
• Editorials: American Art Review, Sunstorm Fine Art, Cowboys and Indians, Signatures Quarterly

Published Features

• Scottsdale Life Magazine
• Palm Springs Life
• Equine Image
• Sedona Magazine
• Art Talk Magazine
  
• Southwest Art
• Cowboys & Indians
• Sunstorm Fine Art
• Art of the West
• Phoenix Home & Garden
• The Woman Artist and the American West (book)
• Art News Magazine
• US Art Magazine
• Art Life Magazine
  
  
• Four Year 'Other Side of the West'
  National Museum Tour, 2000-2004
  

Books in Progress

• A biographical essay: Maria Sharylens, `On Hallowed Ground; Published by International Fine Art Publishers
• `The Other Side of the West’, Published by International Fine Art Publishers

Special Projects

• On Hallowed Ground: currently filming, writing and illustrating the 200 year history of Southern Arizona for a 13 part series documentary beginning with Padre Eusebio Kino in 1687 and concluding with the surrender of Geronimo in 1887.
• The Artists Workshops - PBS Special - One-hour feature presented in the Fall 2002.

Additional Information upon request