STATEMENT

My quilts are to communicate ideas, express feelings and tell stories. I especially want to unite and enhance diverse fabric designs and colors with original template design, intricate precision piecing, and exorbitant quilting.

AWARDS

• 2006: Honorable Mention Innovative Category Pennslyvania National Quilt Extravaganza, Harrisburg, PA
• 2005: Second Place, International Quilter’s Assoc., Houston, TX
• 2005: Honorable Mention, World Quilt & Textile, Columbus, OH
• 2004: Award of Distinction, Triangle’s Best Art, MOCA, Raleigh, NC
• 2007,2004: Award of Merit, Artspace New Works Show, Raleigh, NC
• 2003: NICHE Award, Fiber-Pieced/Quilted, Philadelphia, PA
• 2003: Gold Award, Quilt Nihon, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Japan, then traveled with the award winners to France, England, China and the USA
• 2003, 2002: Best of Show, National Orchid Society, Washington, DC
• 2000: North Carolina Visual Artist Fellowship
• 1999: Museum of American Quilters Society, Shannon-Ross Scholarship
• 1998: United Arts Council Regional Artist Grant

EXHIBITIONS/JURIED SHOWS

• 2006: “Trading Spaces” Target Gallery, Torpedo Factory Art Center, Alexandria, VA
• 2006: Art in the Embassies, Indonesia
• 2005: Artist’s Magazine, 22nd Annual Art Contest
• 2004: Raleigh Womens Club, Raleigh, NC
• 2003: Theatre Art Galleries, High Point, NC
• 2003, 2002, 2000: Municipal Building, Raleigh, NC
• 2006, 2004, 2003, 2002: Blue Spiral 1 Gallery, Asheville, NC
• 2002: Art in the Embassies, Guatemala
• 2003, 2002: National Capitol Orchid Society Art Show, Washington, DC
• 2005: American Craft Council, Spotlight, Hendersonville, NC
• 2004: Competition for NC Artists, Fayetteville Museum of Art, NC
• 2006,2004: Craft Forms; Wayne, PA
• 2006, 2005, 2003,2001,1999, 1998: International Quilt Assoc., Houston, TX
• 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2000: Annual Women’s Center Art Show, Chapel Hill, NC
• 2006,2002: Artspace, Functional Fine Art & Craft, Raleigh, NC
• 2002: Hoffman Challenge, USA Tour
• 2006, 2005, 2004, 2002, 2000, 1998: American Quilter’s Society, Paducah, KY
• 2004, 2002, 2000, 1999: Artspace, New Works, Raleigh, NC
• 2001: Artspace Three Person Exhibition, Raleigh, NC

• 2004: NICHE Magazine, Spring 04
• 2004: Fiber Art Book Seven
• 2004: Women in Space: Cool Careers on the Final Frontier
• 2003: Pinnacle Living, Fall 03
• 2002: Folk Art Magazine, Summer 02
• 2002: Southern Living, Sep 02
• 2002: Our State Magazine, Mar 02
• 2002: News & Observer, Jan5. 02, Triangle’s People to Watch
• 2001: Batik for Artists and Quilters
• 1999: National Geographic Society Magazine, Apr, 99
• 1999: Best In Contemporary Art Quilts
• 1999: Fiber Art Book Six
• 1998: Astronomy Magazine, Oct, Color Photo Pg16

• HGTV May 10, 2004 “Simply Quilts”
• PBS/1997 NC State Fair--interview and showing of Hurricane Fran quilt
• ABC local news/Don Ross' Journal, March 1999

All photography by Lynn Ruck