Collections

• Gilda's Club of Southeast Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
• DBD Corporation, Edwardsville, IL.
• Mr and Mrs E. L. Levine, Shelter Island, NY.
• Mr. Simon Jacobs, Verona, NJ.
• Mammoth Marketing Communications, Saint Paul, MN.
• Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance, Milwaukee, WI.
• P & B Textiles, Burlingame, CA.
• The Milwaukee Coat Company, Milwaukee, WI.

Private Collections

• Buffalo Grove, IL., River Hills, WI., Chicago, IL., Yreka, CA., Sierra Madre, CA., Shorewood, WI

Awards

2006 2005 1996 1995 1992

Lower Town, Paducah, KY Craft National 39, State College, PA. Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival, Williamsburg, VA. ”The Quintessential Quilt”, University City, MO. “Quilts=Art=Quilts”, Auburn, NY.

Solo Exhibits

2003 2002 2000

Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival, Williamsburg, VA. Pacific International Quilt Festival XI, Santa Clara, CA. "Body of Evidence", YEISER ART CENTER, Paducah, KY

Selected Touring Exhibits

2006-07	"Threaded Metaphors-Text & Textiles II", a collaboration of poets and fiber artists
2004-05	"Threaded Metaphors-Text & Textiles", a collaboration of poets and fiber artists
2003-09 2003-06 2002-03 2001-02 2000-01 1998-01 1997-98 1997-98 1996-97 1993-96	"Women of Biblical Proportions "Small Works II" "PAQA Post" "Small Works" "Narritive Portraits" "Windy City Blues" "Character Traits: More Quilts From the Midwest" Fairfield Fashion Show Pilgrim/Roy Fabric Challenge Quilt National '93

Selected Invitational Exhibits

2011	"Quilts: Story Material", St John's on the Lake/Uihlein Gallery, MIlwaukee, WI
2010	"Audubon's Fabulous Fibers", John James Audubon Museum, Henderson, KY
2008	"The Art of Healing: Explorations of Women's Health", The Gallery at the Duderstadt Center, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI "Artistic Threads…A Show of Quilts", Milwaukee Street Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2007	BWRI, Conference on Abuse, Leominster, MA
2006	BWRI, Conference on Abuse, Leominster, MA "Text & Textile II: My Mind Is An Empty Yard", Milwaukee, WI
2005	BWRI, Conference on Abuse, Leominster, MA "Quilts for Change", Cincinnati, OH
2004	BWRI, Conference on Abuse, Leominster, MA "Special Interests", San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, San Jose, CA "Quilts for Change", Cincinnati, OH
2003	4th AnnualQuilt Show to Benefit the Thayer Memorial Library, Lancaster, MA. Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival, Williamsburg, VA.
2002	"Healing Arts", Blanden Memorial Art Museum, Fort Dodge, IA. Pacific Internation Quilt Festival, Santa Clara, CA
2000	"Narrative Portraits", MAQS Museum, Paducah, KY. Tbilisi History Museum , Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia “Threaded Metaphors: Text and Textiles”, traveling exhibit
1998	“Shifting Visions: The Quilt as Contemporary Art”, Delhi, NY.
1997	“Beyond the Bed”, Milwaukee, WI. "Eight Women in Fiber”, Elyria, OH. “Fantastic Fibers”, Paducah, KY. Fairfield Fashion Show, Houston, TX.
1996	“The Art of the Quilt”, East Hanover, NJ. Pilgrim/Roy Fabric Challenge “Quilters”, Glen Ellyn, IL.
1995	“Contemporary Quilts of the Great Lakes States”, Mt. Pleasant, MI. “Harvest of Quilts VI”, Lockport, IL. “A Quilt Extravaganza: Ribbons and Roses”, DeKalb,IL.

Selected Juried Exhibits

2007	Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival, Hampton, VA Quilt Expo, Madison, WI
2006	World Quilt Show New England, Manchester, NH. Lower Town, Paducah, KY "Form Not Function", New Albany, IN
2005	Craft National 39, State College, PA. John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI.
2002	"Altered Images: Expressions of Hope", Appleton, WI
2001	John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI.
1999	Quilts at Crossroads, Flint, MI. Metamorphsis, Dayton, OH.
1998	World Quilt and Textile, Pasadena, CA. Quilt America!, Indianapolis, IN.
1996	Pacific International Quilt Festival, Palm Springs, CA.  Pennsylvania National Quilt Extravaganza, Ft. Washington, PA. “Quilts at Crossroads”, Flint, MI. "Materials: Hard and Soft", Denton, TX. Quilt America!, Indianapolis, IN.
1995	“Quilts Contemporary Art”, Milwaukee, WI. "Tradition and Innovation II", Cedarburg Cultural Center, Cedarburg, WI. American Quilter's Society, Paducah, KY.
1994	“Fiber at the End of the Century”, Corvallis, OR. Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival, Williamsburg, VA.
1993	"Materials: Hard and Soft", Denton, TX. Wichita National, Wichita, KS.  "1993 Year of the Craft: Clay and Fiber Exhibition", Ames, IA. Quilt National '93, Athens, OH.
1992	East Coast Quilters Alliance, Westford, MA. Pacific International Quilt Festival, San Francisco, CA. "Flight of Imagination", Artwork at Doneckers, Ephrata, PA. “Artist as Quiltmaker”, Fireland Association of Visual Arts (FAVA), Oberlin, OH.
1991	"Mastery of Materials", Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI.

Curated Exhibits

2005 2004 2003

"Canvasbacks Retrospective", Wisconisn Museum of Quilts & Textiles "A Blue Ribbon Event", Wisconisn Museum of Quilts & Textiles "Small Works", Katie Gingrass Gallery, Milwaukee, WI.

Publications

• American Quilter Magazine, Summer 2006, Vol. XXII, No. 2
• Quilting Arts Magazine, Issue #17, Spring 2005
• The Quintessential Quilt, Quilts, Inc., 2004
• Porcupine Literary Arts Magazine,. 2003, Vol. 7, No. 2
• Bresenhan, America from the Heart, C&T Publishing, 2002
• Quilter's Newsletter Magazine, Sept. 2002, website review
• McCaffery, Bonnie Lyn. Fantasy Fabric.: Martingale & Company 1999
• Fiberarts Book Six, Ashville, NC: Lark Books, 1999
• Fiberarts<, Nov-Dec 1999, Vol. 26, No. 3
• Quilt Art 2000, Engagement Calendar, American Quilter's Society, 1999
• Ladies Circle Patchwork Quilts, April 1998
• Fantastic Fibers, 1997, video
• “Art/Quilt Magazine”, Issue #5, Winter 1996, review
• American Quilter Society, 1995, video
• Quilting International, May 1994, review
• The New Quilt 2, Dairy Barn: Quilt National, Taunton Press, Newtown, CT. 1993

Selected Lecture/Workshops Given

• Quilt Expo, Madison, WI
• Minnesota Quilter's Show and Conference, St. Paul, MN.
• Heritage Quilters Guild, Lockport, IL
• Heritage Quilters of South Suburban, Chicago, IL
• Southport Quilters Guild, Kenosha, WI
• Quilter's Harvest, Waukesha County Technical College, Waukesha, WI
• Mad City Quilters, Madison, WI
• Patched Lives, Okauchee, WI
• Lighthouse Quilters, Racine, WI
• Darting Needles Guild, Appleton, WI
• West Suburban Quilters, Brookfield, WI
• Wandering Foot Quilt Guild<, Oak Creek, WI
• Embroiders Guild, Milwaukee, WI.

Associations

• MARQ-Milwaukee Art Quilters
• Professional Art Quilt Alliance
• Studio Art Quilt Associates
• Wisconsin Quilters, Inc.--Board Member 1986-1990
• Wisconsin Quilt History Project--President 1989-1994 & 1999-2004

 

Biography

Artist Statement