:: About the Artist ::
RESUME
EDUCATION:
MS in Art Education, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
BFA, Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y. Design Major
AS, Endicott College, Beverly, MA Interior Design
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
SURFACE DESIGN JOURNAL, Winter 1990, Vol. 14, #2, Summer 1993
QUILTING INTERNATIONAL, 3/90, 3/91, feature article 3/92, 5/93, 1/94
FABRIC GARDENS, Cultural Projects Dept, Asahi Shimbun, Osaka, Japan
GREAT AMERICAN QUILTS, Oxmoor House, Birmingham AL (publ 1993)
NEW YORK TIMES, review, January 31, 1991
Contemporary Quilts USA, USIA catalog, Boston Univ. Art Gallery 1991
DISCOVERING AMERICA, Museum of Amer. Folk Art, Alfred Knopf Co., 1991
Armenian MIRROR-SPECTATOR feature article, September 25, 1991
UNCOVERINGS 1992, Gulf War Quilts, Nancy Cameron Armstrong
THE NEW QUILT 2, Taunton Press, Newtown, CT
THE PATCHWORK PILGRIMAGE, Jill Liddell, Penguin Books, NY, 1993
FACES & PLACES, Images in Applique, Charlotte Warr Anderson, C&T, 1995
MOTHER /DAUGHTER VOICES, Paula Rozan Gassman, 12th House Moon, 1995
QUILTERS GALLERY, All American Crafts Publ., Winter 1995, Winter 1997
COLLAGE ART, Jennifer Atkinson, Rockport Press, 1996
BOSTON HERALD, NEQM Healing Show review, March 23, 1997
OPTICAL ILLUSIONS FOR QUILTERS, Karen Combs, AQS, 1997
THE ART QUILT, Robert Shaw, 1997
FIBERARTS DESIGN BOOK VI, Lark Publ., 1999
New Zealand Quilter, #28
WOMEN OF TASTE, Collaboration Celebrating Quilt Artists +Chefs, C&T, 1999
AMERICAN ART QUILTS: Quilt 21/2000, Maxine Farkas & Sandra Sider, Quilt
21 Press, Lowell, MA,
SIMPLE PRINTMAKING, Gwen Diehn, Lark Books, 2000
CREATIVE COLLAGE FOR CRAFTERS, Katherine Aimone, Lark Books, 2000
PATCHWORK & QUILTING, Book Number 3, Westminster Productions, 2001
STAMPING WITH STYLE, Katherine Duncan Aimone, Lark Books, 2001
Pasatiempo: The New Mexican’s Magazine of Arts, Santa Fe, 3/22/02
AMERICAN ART QUILTS: Quilt 21, Maxine Farkas, Quilt 21 Press, Lowell, MA,
VISIONS & VOICES, History of a Quilt Guild, Verena Rybicki, Xlibris Press
2001
A COLOURFUL JOURNEY, Westminster Productions, Great Britain, 2003
WINE COUNTRY QUILTS, Cyndy Rymer & Jennifer Rounds, C&T Publ., 2003
Newton Tab, 10/15/03, ‘Art and Soul’ review, Newton, MA
CONTEMPORARY QUILTS, Walter and Graves, Kraus Publ, release fall 2004
COLOR, COMPOSITION, CREATIVITY, Masopust & Barker, C&T Publ., 2005
COLLECTIONS: (Included in both private & corporate collections:) Partial list:
Goodwin, Proctor, and Hoar, Boston, MA , Ofc. of Dr. George F. Miller Jr.,
Arlington, VA, Fidelity Investments, Coral Gables FL and Honolulu HI
Arpier's Inc.., Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Tanashian, Boston, MA , Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Carpenter, Wellesley, MA, Mr. & Mrs. David Coyle, Newton, MA,,
Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA,, private collection, Koyoto, Japan ,
Putnam Investments, Boston, MA., Ofc. of Ramon Realty, Brookline, MA,
Wellesley College, Office of After School Development,, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
Norberg, Jupiter, FL,Keene State College, Keene, NH , FAVA Gallery,
Oberlin OH, Permanent Collection New England Quilt Museum
RECENT EXHIBITS:
2008:
Transformations '08, SAQA, Festival of Quilts, Birmingham, England
2007:
Paste-up Collage Exhibition, Lowell, MA
New England Quilt Museum ‘Mass-ters’ show, Lowell MA
Quilts as Art Invitational, Damariscotta ME
Quilters’ Connection Annual Show, Watertown, MA
2006:
‘Stitched/Unstitched’, Arlington Center for the Arts, Arlington, MA
Copia Center for the Arts, traveling show, Napa Valley, CA
Quilters Connection, Arlington, MA (Annual Exhibitor)
Vermont Quilt Festival Special Exhibits, ‘History Makers’, Essex Junction VT
Acton Memorial Library solo show, Nov & Dec 2006
Retrospective QuiltArt Show, IQA, Chicago- Houston traveling show-inv.
New England Quilt Museum , private collection
Houston 2006 Journal Quilt Project
2005:
Art3 Gallery, ‘Red’, Manchester, NH
Quilters Connection, Arlington, MA (Annual Exhibitor)
LaBoniche Gallery, Lowell, MA
2004:
‘Trashformations’, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA
‘Quilted Cuisine’, New England Quilt Museum, Lowell, MA
Primedia Gallery, Quilters Newsletter Magazine, Golden, CO
Lowell Quilt Walk, LaBoniche Gallery, Lowell, MA
Depot Gallery summer show, Lincoln, NH
‘One Woman/One Week’, Lowell Quilt Festival Quilt Walk, Fortunatos ,
Lowell MA
Crit Group Invitational Show, Essex Art Center, Lawrence, MA
Cambridge Artists Coop, Small Works Show, Cambridge, MA
Art3 Gallery, “Traveling”, Manchester, NH
Civitas Exhibition Program, “The Fabric of Our Lives”, Plaistow, NH
Quilters Connection, Arlington, MA (Annual Exhibitor)
Quilters Choice Annual Jupiter Town Hall Exhibit, Jupiter, FL
2003:
Art3 Gallery, ‘Storytelling’, ‘Seeing Red’, Manchester, NH
Fuller Museum of Art Quilt Symposium, Brockton, MA
Quilters Connection, Arlington, MA (Annual Exhibitor)
Dreaming the Garden, traveling show, Billings, MT
New Art Center, ‘Art and Sole’ invitational, Newton, MA
‘It’s My Birthday’ traveling show, Los Angeles, CA
Middlesex Community College Gallery, group show, Leominister, MA