Shelby Seier is an interdisciplinary artist living in Omaha, Nebraska. She is a cultural access worker, primarily through her creative accommodations practice, All Kinds Accessibility Consulting. Seier has a background in performing arts, having earned a theater degree from Trinity University, performed improvisational comedy at various venues, such the renowned and now defunct Del Close Marathon, and was a teaching artist in accessible classrooms before shifting her focus to visual and collaborative art due to barriers in performing.

In 2024, she earned the ACRE Residency for emerging artists, one of 60 selected from over 500 applicants. Alongside Joelle Wellansa Sandfort, she received the Populus Fund (supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation) to produce “On Hold,” a series of accessibly-designed nature loom community events in spring 2025.

Seier completed the AMP Movement Research Fellowship (funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation) in fall 2024 and was selected from 240 applicants to create commissioned work for Omaha’s new Central Public Library. Her debut solo show, “On Hold” is currently on view at LALA Exhibitions ART+YOU gallery space in Alley Poyner Macchietto Architecture. She is an Amplify Arts Generator Grant, Nebraska Arts Council, and ONE Omaha grants recipient. 

She is interested in exploring the political potential of playscapes, anti-ableist dance practices, sensory theater for young audiences, making accommodations for and by disabled people, the power of play in the collective's day-to-day, relational accessibility, and the way the light is shining over there.