STATEMENT

I am a full-time studio art quilter, primarily self-taught. First in my home studio and later in spaces in artists’ coops (currently in Washington DC), I have spent the past 20 years learning and practicing my art.

After a brief career in social work, I discovered the textile arts in the late 1960s and began to explore as many techniques and materials as I could.

 I felt I had finally found a kind of work, which would be fulfilling over the long haul. At the beginning I concentrated on weaving and dyeing, making a few quilts now and then; the number kept increasing until I realized that this was my medium. I gradually developed my own way of doing things and a personal style, which involved finding a way to do the types of designs I envisioned without using the precise techniques of traditional quiltmaking. Hence, a sort of overlapping appliqué, leaving the edges raw, was my solution. Since I didn’t know the rules, I was free to break them and to achieve the kind of spontaneity I was seeking.

EXHIBITIONS - SOLO AND SMALL GROUP

2007

Solo Exhibition, Arlington Arts Center, Arlington VA

2005

San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, San Jose CA

2003

Rockville Arts Place, Rockville MD

2001

Glenview Mansion Gallery, Rockville, MD

2000

The Landmark at Eastview, Tarrytown, NY

1998

Glenview Mansion Gallery, Rockville, MD

EXHIBITIONS - JURIED AND INVITATIONAL

2009

Hands All Around XXV, International Quilt Festival and travelling, Houston TX

Wichita National All Media Craft Exhibition, Wichita KS

New Image: New Work,Suffolk Museum, Suffolk VA

Earth in the Balance, Union Of Concerned Sceintists, Washington DC

Transformations 09, Birmingham UK and travelling

Quilt National 09, Athens OH and travellling

30th Annual Contemporary Crafts exhibition, Mesa Contemporary Arts, Mesa AZ

Mixed Media Fiber Art, Danforth Museum, Framingham MA

Spring in Fiber, Blue Hour Gallery, Marshall MI

Craft Forms, Wayne Art Center, Wayne PA

New Focus and Transformations 08, Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay OR

2008

Visions Art Quilt Gallery, San Diego CA

Earth in the Balance, Union Of Concerned Sceintists, Washington DC

Craft Forms, Wayne Art Center, Wayne PA

New Focus and Transformations 08, Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay OR

Art Quilts Elements, Wayne PA

Merit Award, Southworks, OCAF, Watkinsville GA

Four Visions, Eight Hands, Ratner Museum, Bethesda MD

Transformations 08, Birmingham UK and travelling

Columbus Museum of Art, Material Matters

New Focus, Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay OR

2007

Creative Force, International Quilt Festival, Houston TX

Quilt Art 22, Minerva Art Center, Llanidloes Wales

Sum of the Parts, Surface Design Conference, Kansas City MO

Fiber artists Collective, American Academy for the Advancement of Science, Washington DC

Cooper Cary Architectural Firm, Alexandria VA

Subject:Object, Blue Spiral Gallery

Mid-Atlantic Art Exhibition, D’Art Center, Norfolk VA

9x10, WWP Gallery, Washington DC

Markings, Page-Walker Arts Center,Cary NC

2006

Quilts=Art=Quilts, Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn NY

Surface Tension, Kean University, Union NJ

Quilts for Art's Sake 5, Gallery 214 Art Space, Montclair NJ

The Creative Force, Houston TX

Fiber's Finest, Gilchrist Museum,Cumberland MD

Crafts National, Lancaster Museum of Art, PA

Gallery DePaul, Lancaster PAArt Quilts at the Sedgwick, Philadelphia, PA

Tied Together: Textile Art in the 21st Century, Vision Gallery, Chandler, AZ

On the Wall, Colorado Springs CO

Deja Vu, Arlington Arts Center VA

Textile Arts Today, Mountain View CA

2005

Quilt Art 20, Collins Gallery, Glasgow Scotland, July 3 - August 21 2005, and travelling in Europe and Japan through 2007 (catalog available

Hardware, Target Gallery, Alexandria, VA, October  26 - December 4, 2005, and travelling, (catalog available)

Fiber Feast, Fiber Art Center, Amherst, MA

Rooted in Tradition:Art Quilts from the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum, Golden, CO,

Quilts=Art=Quilts, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center,Auburn NY, Nov 2005-Jan 2006

Permanent Collection Galleries, Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, June, 2005

Fiber Directions, Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, KS, May 6 - June 19, 2005

The Summer Quilt Show, Fitton Center for Creative Arts, Hamilton, OH, July 16 - September 18, 2005

Festival of Quilts, Birmingham, England, August 2005

On the Soft Edge:Adventures in Contemporary Textiles, Dorchester Arts Center, Cambridge, MD, July, 2005

Tribute to Fiber Art, ApexGallery, Washington, DC, May 6 - June 18, 2005

Layers of Meaning, Contemporary Crafts Museum and Gallery,Portland OR (Poster illustration)                       

2004

Quilted Surface II, Riffe Gallery,Columbus, OH

Art Quilts at the Sedgwick, Philadelphia, PA

Re-Interpretations, Frankfort, Germany

American Craft Gallery, Cleveland, OH

Materials Hard and Soft, Denton, TX (also 2005)

2003

Quilt National, Athens, OH

2002

Quilt 21, Lowell, MA

2001

Craft Forms, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA                       

2000

Thirteen Moons Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

1999

• Quilt National 99, Athens, OH
  
  Hanging by a Thread, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ

1998

12th Biennial of Miniature Textiles International, Szombathely, Hungary

Abstracted/FIgured/Exposed, School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, MD

4th Contemporary Quilt Exhibition, Gross McCLeaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1995

Quilt National, Dairy Barn, Athens, OH

Full Deck Art Quilts, Renwick Gallery, Washington, DC

1994

Art Quilt International, Penny Nii Quilt Art, Mountain View, CA

1993

Quilt National, Dairy Barn Art Center, Athens, OH

PUBLICATIONS

2009

Connecting Art to Stitch, Sandra Meech, Batsford, 2009

Quilting Art, Spike Gillespie, Voyageur Press, Fall 2009

2008

Quilting Arts magazine, Aug-Sept 2008

Textiel Plus (Netherlands textile magazine), Winter 2008

Surface Design Journal, Spring 2008

Quilters Newsletter Magazine, April 2008

Contemporary Quilt Art,Kate Lenkowsky, Indiana University Press, 2008

2007

Arts in Embassies Exhibition Catalog,  La Paz, Bolivia, 2007

American Craft, Gallery section, April/May 07

University of Chicago Magazine, July/Aug 07

Montgomery County Insight, December 2007

Food,Glorious Food:Just Desserts (calendar), Zenith Community Arts Foundation, Washington DC

2006

Creative Quilts:Inspiration, Texture and Stitch, Sandra Meech,

Surface Design Journal, Gallery Issue, September 2006

Popular Patchwork, (England), Feb 06

Collage Sourcebook, Jennifer Atkinson, Paula Grasdal, Holly Harrison

2005

Surface Design Journal, Fall 2005

Embroidery Magazine, Sept/Oct 05

Tulane Review, Spring, 2005 (Cover illustration)

Color and Composition for the Creative Quilter, Katie Pasquini Masopust and Brett Barker, Fall, 2005

Art In Embassies Program/United States Embassy Vilnius, 2005, (Cover illustration)

2004

Fiberarts Design Book 7

Fiberarts Magazine, November/December

1999

• Fiberarts Design Book 6

1998

Art/ Quilt Magazine, Issue #8

1997

The Art Quilt, Robert Shaw, Hugh Lauter Levin Associates

Imagery on Fabric (revised edition), Jean Ray Laury, C & T Publishing

1996

Fiberarts Magazine, January/February, September/October

Collage Art, Jennifer Atkinson, Rockport Publishers

1995

Fiberarts Design Book 5

1992

Fiberarts Design Book 4

AWARDS

2009

Merit Award, Images 09, Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts, State College PA

FY10 Creative Projects Grant, Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County, MD

Juror’s Award, 30th Annual Contemporary Crafts exhibition, Mesa Contemporary Arts

2007

Merit award, Southworks, Oconnee Cultural Arts Foundation, Watkinsville GA.

Best Innovative Design, Quilts=Art=Quilts, Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn NY.

2006

DC Commission on Arts and Humanities purchase award

2001

Individual Artist Award, Maryland State Arts Council

1996

Juror’s Award, Crafts National 30, juror Michael Monroe

1994

Juror’s Award, Mesa Art Center, jurors: Claire Verstegen and Carol Shinn

1991

Montgomery County Arts Council Artists Fellowship

1990

Third Prize, Artists Equity Members Exhibit, juror Willem deLooper

1986

Best in Show, New Art Center Juried Crafts Exhibit, juror Sherley Koteen

COLLECTIONS

Visa International, San Mateo, CA

Braintree District Museum, England

Renwick Gallery, Washington, DC

International Monetary Fund, Washington, DC.

Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum, Golden, CO

Kaiser Permanente, Folsom CA, Roseville CA

Carolinas Medical Center, Mercy, NC