Place of birth: Kalamazoo, Michigan
Education: Colorado State University, B.F.A. in Fiber, Cum Laude; Minor in Art History
Drawing and Design: Front Range Community College; Denver, CO
Awards
2006 Best in Painting: Biennial Southwest; Albuquerque Museum of Art & History
2004 Shine Gallery Contemporary Art Award: Arts International, El Paso, TX
2004 Best of Show: 1st Frontier Collage Society Annual; Austin, TX
1998 Scholarship: CSU Creative & Performing Arts
1997, 1996 Scholarship: Northern Colorado Artist Assoc.
1993 Judges Choice Award: Fiber/Texture ’93; Boulder, CO
1993 QUILTERS UNLIMITED: Winners to England; London & Herrogate
1994 VISIONS-THE ART OF THE QUILT; Work selected to travel to Co., Ky., Me., Helsinki, Finland
1992 1st Place: Art Quilt at Quilt Colorado
Major Collections
Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum: 2 art quilts; Golden, CO
Colorado State University Art Dept.: drawings, lithograph, photography; Fort Collins, CO
Kaiser Permanente: 2 art quilts; Longmont and Denver, CO
Dupler, Hult, and Gelnik,PC, Attorneys: weaving, Boulder, CO
Gold Crown Management: weaving, Denver, CO
University of Colorado Federal Credit Union: weaving, Boulder, CO
Harvest Restaurant: weaving, Boulder, CO
First National Bank: weaving, Colorado Springs, CO
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2014 Subtle Imprints: Matrix Fine Art, Albuquerque, NM
2011 Sensing Land: Matrix Fine Art, Albuquerque, NM
2009 Earth Narratives: Matrix Fine Art, Albuquerque
2007 Earth Elements: Stone: Exhibit 208, Albuquerque, NM
2004 Landscape: Materialized/Mesmerized: Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque, NM
1999 Diggings: Fiber Dept. Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
1998 Land Marks: Visual Art Gallery, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021 New Faces/ New Work: Exhibit 208, Albuquerque, NM
2019 Gallery Members Group Show: Exhibit 208, Albuquerque, NM
2016 New Works by Matrix Artists: Matrix Fine Art, Albuquerque, NM
2015 Affordable Art Fair, Singapore: Matrix Fine Art, Albuquerque, NM
Affordable Art Fair, New York: Matrix Fine Art, Albuquerque, NM
Affordable Art Fair, Hong Kong: Matrix Fine Art, Albuquerque, NM
2014 Front Range Contemporary Quilters’ 25th Anniversary: Dairy Art Center, Boulder. CO
2013 Affordable Art Fair, New York: Matrix Fine Art, Albuquerque, NM
Excavations: Marilyn Dillard & Raul Dorn: Matrix Fine Art, Albuquerque, NM
2013 – 2008 Annual 12 x 12 Fundraiser: Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque, NM
2009 Luna: In Other Words: Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque, NM
Red Dot Art Fair Miami FL: with Matrix Fine Art, Albuquerque, NM
2008 Contemporary Art Society 20th Anniversary: UNM Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM
2008 Art Santa Fe: with Matrix Fine Art: Santa Fe, NM
2007 Luna Project: Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque, NM
2006 Biennial Southwest: Albuquerque Museum of Art &History, Albuquerque, NM
CAS Honors: artspace 116, Albuquerque, NM
2004/5 Arts International: International Museum of Art, El Paso, TX
2003 Fiber Directions: Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, KS
2002 Nature’s Architecture: Oz Architecture, Denver, CO
2001 Fiber Directions: Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, KS
Group Invitationals
2007 Art Show With A Cause, New Mexico Cancer Center: Albuquerque, NM
2005 Contemporary Works: Katrina Lasko Gallery, Bernalillo, NM
2005 Rooted in Tradition: Art Quilts from the Permanent Collection: Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum, Golden, CO Traveled nationally
2003 Fiber Art Invitational: Art Students League of Denver, CO
2002 POTLUCK: An Exhibition of Art Quilts: Longmont Museum, Longmont, CO Traveled nationally through 2006
2001 Fiber of Colorado State University: Bayeau Gallery, Denver, CO
1995 The Art of Craft: Longmont Museum Gallery, Longmont, CO
1994 Outsider Art: Gallery at Studio B, Lancaster, OH
1992 25th Anniversary Invitational: West Nebraska Art Center, Scottsbluff, NE
Fiber Invitational: UNC Mariani Gallery, Greeley, CO
1992 KOKUSAI Art Japan: Colorado Quilts: Fujisawa, Kanagawa; Osaka; Nagoya; Tokyo
Professional Recognition
2008 Art Quilts Judge: Northern New Mexico Quilt Guild Fiesta, Santa Fe, NM
2007 Juror: Studio Art Quilt Associates Mountain Zone Regional; Translations Gallery, Denver, CO
1998 Quilt Judge: Arapahoe County Quilters’ Show, CO
1993 JUROR: A Stitch in Time: Longmont Museum Gallery, Longmont, CO
1992 Guest Curator: The Season of Magic: Innovations in Quilts & Dolls: UNM Michener Library, Greeley, CO
1989-90 a Founder and first President: Front Range Contemporary Quilters
Publications : Author
1993 The Dairy Barn: Not Cows But Quilts, “Piecework” publications
1984 A RUG WEAVERS SOURCE BOOK, Interweave Press. I wrote chapter on “The Weft Face Twill Rug”
1984 “Handwoven” March-April, Interweave Press. I wrote section on rug design. Loveland, CO
2013 eBook: Top Ten Rugs on Four Shafts: Interweave Press, Loveland, CO. Two chapters: “Twill Rug” and “Double Corduroy”
Selected Publications: Books, magazines, newspapers
2011 ARTslant Santa Fe, September feature article on “Sensing Land”
2011 Local IQ, Albuquerque, September, photo
2010 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Art & Architecture, photo
2007 Westword, Denver, CO, Aug 23 – 29, artbeat, feature article on “FLOW” an exhibition I juried
2006 Rooted in Tradition: Art Quilts from the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum, a book by Judith Trager and Heidi Krakauer Row,
Donning Company publishers
2006 BIENNIAL SOUTHWEST, exhibition catalog, published by Albuquerque Museum
2006 The Sandoval Signpost, December, Sandoval County; photo and feature article about Biennial Southwest
2004 Albuquerque Journal, Feb 15; review of my show: Landscape: Materialized/Mesmeriaed
2002 Denver Post, March 1: photo and review of “Nature’s Architecture.” |
