Background
Shirley, Virginia Collier was born on September 11, 1956 in Montgomery, Alabama, United States. Daughter of Olaf Edward and Mary Virginia (Caldwell) Collier.
Shirley, Virginia Collier was born on September 11, 1956 in Montgomery, Alabama, United States. Daughter of Olaf Edward and Mary Virginia (Caldwell) Collier.
Bachelor, University Alabama, 1980. Postgraduate, Mississippi College.
Progressive associate, Alabama Humanities Foundation, Birmingham, 1980-1984; exhibit designer, U. Alabama Law Center, Tuscaloosa, 1984; writers conference coordinator, Birmingham-Southern College, 1984-1985; account executive, Shirwood Advertising, Montevallo, Alabama, 1984-1986; assistant curator, Sloss Furnaces Museum, Birmingham, 1986-1989; consultant, researcher, Arts Alliance of Jackson & Hinds County, Jackson, Mississippi, 1989; director community arts progressive, Mississippi Arts Commission, Jackson, 1989-1991; executive director, Arts Alliance of Jackson and Hinds County, 1991-1993; ceramics artist, Jackson, Mississippi, since 1993. Board directors New Stage Theatre. Advisor/consultant Birmingham Museum Art, 1983-1984, Birmingham History Society, 1986-1989, Birmingham Botanical Society, 1986-1989.
Member task force Mayor's Commission on Women, 1984-1985. Advisory member Greater Birmingham Directors of Volunteer Services, 1986-1989. Mississippi delegate National Assembly of Local Arts Agencies, Washington, national convention, 1990.
Member American Association of University Women (vice president 1985-1986), Arts Alliance of Jackson and Hinds County, Montgomery Art Guild (honorable mention 2002), Eastern Shore Art Association, Southern Mississippi Art Association, National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society.
Married Philip A. Shirley, June 30, 1982.