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Sheila Shockey, Owner
About Sheila
Sheila Shockey is the owner of the 80 Santa Fe Art Gallery and is the founder and CEO of Shockey Consulting. The gallery and consulting firm share a space in a historic building in Downtown Overland Park, Kansas.
80 Santa Fe isn't your grandmother's art gallery. No stuffy gallery attitude -- just cool gallery vibe without the side eye. Sheila believes that art is a wild playground where your inner child gets to run loose with a spray can and a dream. It's loud music and bright colors, happy accidents and messy fingers. It's the thrill of creating something that makes people stop, smile, and maybe even let out a surprised laugh. Art is that moment when you forget about all the rules they taught you and just let your imagination do cartwheels across the canvas. It's not about impressing some critic sipping champagne - it's about making something that makes your soul do a little dance, even if that dance looks more like a mosh pit than a waltz.
Sheila is a a self-taught abstract artist. Her work is what happens when the day's frustrations transform into something worth hanging on a wall instead of hurling across a room. Think of it as anger management with better aesthetics. Hit that flow state, everything else fades to background noise. No fear, no self-doubt, just pure, unfiltered creation. "I make art because it's my oxygen, my release valve, my middle finger to mundane expectations. If it speaks to you, that's dope. If not, no sweat – I'll be in my studio, avoiding therapy one painting at a time."
Keith Mays, Curator
About Keith
Keith is the curator of 80 Santa Fe, as well as being a photographer and ceramic artist.
He’s been criss-crossing State Line for much of his life, growing up in Springfield, Missouri, with an English professor and amateur photographer as a father and a bohemian painter, sculptor and ceramic artist as a mother.
He got his start in photography at an early age when his parents got him an Instamatic to document the epic driving trip the family took when moving from Seattle to Missouri. He breathed Dektol fumes in an unventilated home darkroom as a teenager and went on to study photojournalism at the University of Missouri.
His first professional stint was at the Topeka Capitol Journal, where he spent five years on the photo staff and more importantly, met his future wife Nancy. The young couple temporarily broke the I-70 curse and spent a year in Venezuela, where they worked for the Caracas Daily Journal and other publications. In the years since then, they’ve lived in St. Louis, Columbia (a MA in journalism for Keith), and Kansas City, having four wonderful children in various hospitals along the highway and careers in public relations and communications.
About six years ago, Keith scratched a life-long itch and began taking classes at the Kansas City Clay Guild, growing increasingly serious about the craft of ceramics. With aspirations for decorating his pottery that were greater than his design skills, Keith decided to bring something he was good at - photography - into his ceramic art. His recent work is the result of his experiments along several themes combining pottery and photography. 2022 brought another opportunity, as Keith stepped in as curator of the 80 Santa Fe Art Gallery and has been privileged to start meeting local artists and getting to better know the thriving Kansas City area arts scene.
His art is available in the 80 Santa Fe Shop; you can see more on his website, keithmays.art