SHELLEY

Shelley and Michael Buonaiuto met while studying sculpture and painting at the University of Massachusetts in 1968... After a few vagabond years, their spiritual search led them to the study of Gurdjieff, a Greek Caucasian spiritual master, at Chardavogne Barn in New York. There Shelley began to study pottery, making creches and small figures, and Michael, after a few years as a stone mason (in debt to his Italian ancestry) joined her in 1975, after the birth of their first child, Ben. Besides sculpting, Michael was a skilled mold-maker... Over the past year a number of you have asked about our website and we're happy to finally have a home for you to visit.