STATEMENT

"Current events, reflected through social and political behaviors, and the dynamics of personal and family relationships interest me and are featured heavily in my art. My goal is to use my art to communicate the questions and encourage the viewer to address the questions that arise from these themes, rather than make pronouncements about them. I have found that people are drawn to the inherently warm and non-threatening qualities of fabric and quilts, which encourages them to confront issues and topics that they may otherwise prefer to avoid. The thematic content of my work includes both the humorous and the more troublesome, dysfunctional circumstances of everyday experiences. "

EDUCATION

• 1976 BFA, Virginia Commonwealth University
• 1991 MFA, James Madison University

POST GRADUATE WORK

• George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum
• Penland School Crafts
• Haystack School of Crafts
• Northampton Printmaking Workshop
• Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts
• Peter's Valley Craft Education Center

SELECTED JURIED & INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS

2007
• Quilt National 07, Dairy Barn, Athens, OH
• Quilt Visions 2006, Oceanside Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
• Small Expressions, Handweavers Guild of America, Convergence 2006, Gerald Ford Museum, Grand Rapids, MI (Honorable Mention Award)

2006
• Quilts=Art=Quilts, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY
• Body of Art 2006, Willoughby & Baltic Fine Arts Gallery, Davis Square, MA
• Fiber Art: Cutting Edge Grandeur , Handweavers Guild of America, Convergence 2006 , Grand Rapids, MI
• Considering Quilts 2006, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna, FL
• A Common Thread, National Textile Center Joan Mondale Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
• On The Wall: SAQA @ Colorado, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Colorado Springs, CO
• 2nd International Invitational Miniature Exhibit Touring, Quilt Guild of Dallas, Dallas, TX

2005
• Delaplaine National Bead & Fiber Exhibit, Delaplaine, VA
• radius 250, art space @ planet zero, Richmond , VA
• The Gap Between Art and Life, Adrian College, Adrian, MI
• Fiberarts Design Book 7, Artisan Center of Virginia, Waynesboro , VA
• PAQA - South Sidestreet Gallery, Pittsboro, NC
• Mixed Media Quilts, The Guilford Handcraft Center, Guilford, CT
• Fiber Celebration 2005, The Longmont Museum & Cultural Center, Longmont, CO
• 2nd International Invitational Miniature Exhibit, Ocean County Artist's Guild, Island Heights, NJ, Traveling Exhibit

2004
• Virginia's Executive Mansion Christmas Collection, Richmond, VA
• PAQA - South FABRICations Exhibition, Page -Walker Arts & History Center, Cary, NC Traveling Exhibit
• Quilts For Art Sake 3, Makeready's Gallery 214 Artspace, Montclair, NJ
• Special Interests: The Art of Politics, San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, San Jose, CA
• SAQA : Creating A Life Worth Living, Arkansas Historic Museum, Little Rock, AR
• Myth, Magic, Metaphor , Union Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
• 18th National Exhibit - The Embroiderers' Guild of America, The Art Center at Fuller Lodge, Los Alamos, NM, Traveling Exhibit
• Fine Focus 2004, Houston, TX , Traveling Exhibit
• Materials; Hard & Soft Exhibition, Center for the Visual Arts, Denton, TX

2003
• PAQA - South Exhibition, Page -Walker Arts & History Center, Cary, NC
• Fiber Artists Collective: American Craft Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
• Traditions: The Blessing & The Curse, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
• Fiber Directions 2003, Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, Kansas
• Sew Near to My Heart, American Cancer Society, Cincinnati, Ohio
• From A Woman's Hands, Artisan Center of Virginia

2002
• Winterfest V International Juried Art Exhibition, Period Gallery, Omaha, NE
• New Works in Paint, 2002, Mesa Contemporary Arts, Mesa, AZ
• Threads That Bind: The Fine Art of Fiber, Grants Pass Museum of Art , Grants Pass, OR

2001
• Hidden Messages: Truth or Dare, Artisan Center of Virginia

1991
• New Art Forms: Virginia III Hand Workshop

1985
• American Annual Works on Paper, Zanier Gallery
• Artemis, Artists & Writers of the Blue Ridge, Danville Museum of Fine Arts

1980
• 62nd National Springfield Art League Exhibition, Smith Art Museum

SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS

• 2006 ~ Beverly Street Studio School
• 2005 ~ Artisan Center of Virginia
• 1991 ~ Sawhill Gallery, James Madison University
• 1990 ~ Bridgewater College
• 1989 ~ Burton Griswold Gallery
• 1989 ~ Shenandoah Valley Art Center
• 1989 ~ Eastern Mennonite College
• 1988 ~ Staunton Augusta Art Center
• 1987 ~ Mary Baldwin College

AWARDS & GRANTS

• Small Expressions, Handweavers Guild of America, Convergence 2006 (Honorable Mention Award)
• Virginia Commission for the Arts Project Grant
• Virginia's AAUW Education Advocate 2000
• SAW Foundation Dawbarn Award 2000
• Children's Art Network's Dr. Phillip James Award 1995
• Staunton City Schools' Invitation to Excellence, 1993,1994,1995

PUBLICATIONS

• Shuttle Spin & Dyepot , Fall 2006
• Quilt National , Lark Book, 2007
• Body of Art, Willoughby and Baltic Fine Arts 2006
• Surface Design Journal : Gallery Issue, September 2006
• Fiberarts Design Book 7 , Lark Books, 2004
• FIBERARTS Magazine , November/ December 1999

GALLERIES

• Artisan Center of Virginia, 601 Shenandoah Village Drive, Waynesboro, VA 22950
• The Frame Gallery, 21 N. Market St., Staunton, VA 24401

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

• Studio Art Quilt Association
• Surface Design Association
• Professional Art Quilters' Alliance
• FT: Fiber Transformed
• Fiber Artists Collective