Wayne taught art at Green High School from 1972-2002, where he also established and taught jewelry, enameling, photography, TV/Video production, and began a Cultural Studies Exchange Program with Mexico and Costa Rica.

   Since leaving Green High School, Wayne has conducted many Artist workshops in area schools. Wayne has completed many public art works which can be seen at his website www.sheppart.com.

   Wayne is currently part-time faculty for Kent State University Art Ed, an adjunct professor for Ashland University and a metal/enamel instructor at Steinert Glass School in Kent. He recently completed the illustration for his wife, Hazel's fourth childrens book, Big Red's Greatest Find, and is currently working on a body of work related to nature forms and symbols of healing.

   Hazel Sheppard and Wayne Sheppard were married in Rockport, Massachusetts in December of 1967.

   Although they live in Naples, Florida, they return to Rockport nearly every year.

   Hazel is a graduate of Saugus High School in Sagus, Massachusetts, and Wayne is a graduate of Ewing High School in Trenton, New Jersey. They met while attending The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio.

"I still believe in the artist as messenger. Perhaps I'm old enough to really have something worth saying. My messages are to generate thoughtfulness, appreciation of being, and interconnectedness to the Universal".

-Wayne Sheppard