RESUME
RECENT EVENTS
*Buyer’s Market of American Craft, Phil., PA
* Exhibiting member of Piedmont Craftsmen Guild and the Carolina Craftsmen Guild, 2007-2009
* Received a United Artist Regional Artist Project Grant 2007-2008 to attend Quilt Surface Design Symposium in ’08.
* Best of Show Award, PAQA-South Member’s Show, 2008.
* Finalist in prestigious Int’l Quilt Assoc. World of Beauty Show, Houston, TX, 2009.
* Committee Chair for the Masterworks Program at Carolina Designer Craftsmen Guild
SOLO EXHIBITS
*United Artist Gallery, Raleigh , NC, 2008
*Moses Cone Hospital, Greensboro, NC, 2008
*Town of Cary, Herbert Young Community Center, NC, 2009
*Raleigh Convention Center, Raleigh, NC 2009-2010
*Tuxedo Junction, Wake Forest, NC 2010
GROUP JURIED EXHIBITIONS
2010 *In Full Bloom, Int’l Quilt Assoc., Houston, TX
*Carolina Designer Craftsmen Guild: A Tradtition of Excellence, Cedar Creek Gallery, Creedmoor, NC
2009 * PAQA-South 2009 spring exhibit ARTQUILTStransitions, Durham, NC, Cary , NC & Fayetteville Museum of Art, Fayetteville,
NC, jurors: Susan Brandeis and Jan-Ru Wan.
*IQA: World of Beauty Finalist, Houston, TX
2008
*Artspace Contemporary Crafts,Raleigh, NC, Tom Spleth, juror.
*PAQA-South Member’s Show, Art quilt: Reflections, Cary, NC
*27th Annual Fabrics of Legacies National Quilt Exhibit, Fort Collins, CO
*45 Years of Inspired Design, Sparta Teapot Museum of Craft & Design, NC
2007
*Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival XVIII, Hampton, VA
*26th Annual Fabrics of Legacies National Quilt Exhibit, Fort Collins, CO 2007
*Sacred Threads, Reynoldsburg, Ohio
2006
*Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival XVII, Hampton, VA
*Tactile Architecture, Lyon, France & Houston, Texas
*25th Annual Fabrics of Legacies National Quilt Exhibit, Fort Collins, CO 2006
*PAQA South, Artquilts Five, Cary, NC
2004-2005
*23rd Annual Fabrics of Legacies National Quilt Exhibit, Fort Collins, CO 2004
*24th Annual Fabrics of Legacies national Quilt Exhibit, Fort Collins, CO 2005
*Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival XVI, Hampton, VA
*Sacred Threads, Reynoldsburg, Ohio
2002-2003
*NC Quilt Symposium
*World Quilt and Textile, Greensboro, NC
*Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival XIII, Williamsburg, VA
*IQA Quilts: A World of Beauty, Houston, TX
*PAQA South, Layers of Meaning, Cary, NC
*Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival XIV, Williamsburg, VA
1999-2001
*IQA Quilts: A World of Beauty, Houston, TX
*Mid-Atlantic Wearable Art Festival VI, Williamsburg, VA
*World Quilt and Textile, Greesboro, NC
AWARDS
2004- First Place, Vessel of Fire, 23rd Annual Fabric of Legacies National Quilt Exhibit
2003- First Place, Triangle Happy, Third Place, Vessel of Fire, NC Quilt Symposium 2003
2000- First Place, Wearable Art in Amateur category, Mid-Atlantic Wearable Art Festival VI
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
*Mojave Sandstorm
*Amazonia, 2010
*Celestial Celebration, 2009
*Rio- City of My Birth, 2007
*Psychodelic Palm, 2003
*Fire Flow, 2003
*Vessel of Fire, 2002
EDUCATION
*BS in Costume Design and Textiles, Univ. of Minnesota
*Workshops with well-known quilt artists such as: Caryl Bryer Fallert, Esterita Austin, Hollis Chatelain, Ginny Eckley, and
Barbara Olsen.
*Esterita Austin’s week- long Italian landscape workshop in Tuscany, Italy in 2005.
*Carol Soderlund’s week-long workshop on fabric dyeing at QSDS, Columbus, Ohio, 2008.