NOTABLES
~~ GRANTS AND AWARDS ~~
Gretchen Tanzer
Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Grant, 2005
Barbara Webster
Grand prize, 2004 Festival of Quilts show, Birmingham, England
Pat Burling
Excellence in Fibers Award, 2006 Philadelphia Furniture and Furnishings Show
Natalia Margulis
Honorable mention in fiber, Boston Mills Artfest, June 2006
Best of Show, Madison Art on the Square, July 2004 and 2006
Sally Bright
Best of Fiber – Coconut Grove
Best of Show – Bonita Springs
Best of Fiber – Austin
Award of Excellence – Boston Mills
Best of Sculpture – Sun Valley
Award of Excellence – Peoria
Susan Leslie Lumsden
Art & Soul of Quilting – Kenosha, WI – Honorable Mention, 2006
OakBrook Center Invitational -Oak Brook, IL – Merit Award, 2006
Christmas in July – Sedalia, MO – 3rd place, 2006
Laumeier Festival of Fine Craft – Award of Merit, 2005
Midwest Salute to the Masters – Best Fine Craft, 2005
Highland Park Festival of Fine Craft – Award of Excellence, 2005
Mt. Gretna Art Festival – Mt Gretna, Pa – Best Fiber, 2005
Westmoreland Nationals – Best Fine Craft, 2005
Images Festival of Fine Art – Juror’s choice, 2005
4 Bridges Festival – 1st place Fiber, 2005
Celebrating Women – National Art Show- Merit award, 2005
Columbia Art in the Park – 2nd place overall, 2004
Harlin Museum Quilt Show – 1st place Art quilts, 2004
Artist Development Grant – Pinellas County Art Council, 1998
M. Runnells
Best of category-fiber, Boston Mills/July 2004
2nd of show, Hilton Head – Discovery Museum Show, May 2004
Claudia Mills
Appointment to the board of the New England chapter of ASID for 2005-2006 as an “Industry Partner” representative.
Ann Harwell
Gold Award, Quilt Nihon, Tokyo, Japan
Niche Award Finalist, Philadelphia, PA
Award of Merit, Functional Fine Art and Craft, Artspace, Raleigh, NC
3rd Place, Handcrafted Show, Rocky Mount Art Center, Rocky Mount, NC
Best of Art in Show, National Orchid Society Art Show, Washington,DC
Maureen Bardusk
Fiber Focus ’99: Purchase Award, Art. St. Louis
St. Louis Fellowship for Visual Arts Residency, Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, IL, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2002
New/Works: Passage, Art/Quilt Magazine, Issue #11, 2000
Ann Brauer
2006 Award of Excellence, American Craft Council, Baltimore Fine Craft Fair
Niche Award Finalist 1998, 1997, 1995
Yankee Magazine’s Travel Guide to New England, Editor’s Pick, 1999
National Endowment for the Arts (NEFA) 1991
Massachusetts Artists Foundation Fellowship finalist, 1991
Susan Levi-Goerlich
Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award, 1999
Dominie Nash
DC Commission on Arts and Humanities Purchase Grant, 2006
Best Art Submission, Tulane Review, Spring 2005
Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award, 2001
Nadine Spier
2001 Conference of the Association of Southern California Handweavers – First Place, Second Place, Best of Show – Basketry, First Place Basket – Gourd
Southern California Exposition Del Mar 2000 – First, Second and Third Place – Professional Basketry,First Place – Professional Mixed Media
Fiber Celebration 2000 – Second Place
Barbara Webster
Art Quilts at the Sedgwick, 2004
1st Place, Group Category, AQS, Paducah, 2003
COLLECTIONS
Dominie Nash
Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum, Golden, CO
Ann Brauer
People’s Place Quilt Museum, Intercourse, PA
The Lodge at Turning Stone Casino, Verona, NY
Maureen Bardusk
New Dominion, Inc., Kansas City, Kansas
Ronald McDonald Foundation, Hines, Illinois
Zurich American Insurance, Schaumburg, Illinois
B+A/BCC, Engineers/Architects, Chicago, Illinois
Ann Brauer
American Craft Museum, New York, NY
Pat Metheny
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
National Institue of Mental Health
Kathleen Field
National Women’s History Museum
Susan Levi-Goerlich
Pew Charitable Trust
Howard Community College, Columbia, MD
Temple Emanuel, Reisterstown, MD
Dominie Nash
Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum
International Monetary Fund
Nadine Spier
“Basket Teapot” for Gloria and Sonny Kamm (world’s largest teapot collection)
Alan Vaughn
Carroll Reese Museum, Johnson City, TN
Cohen Museum, Nashville, TN
Museum of Art & Science, Macon, GA
Barbara Webster
McCreesh House, Charlotte, North Carolina, 2006
Burnsville Town Center, Burnsville, North Carolina, 2006
Holy Cross Hospital commission, 2003
Joanne Williams
University of Seattle Law School
Mary Zicafoose
The White House, Washington, DC
Norwest Banks
Mobil Corporation
Tenaska Power Services, Texas
Reese, Tomases & Ellick, Delaware
PUBLICATIONS
Sally J. Bright
“500 Baskets: A Celebration of the Basketmaker’s Art”, Lark Books, 2006
“Contemporary Wicker Basketry” Flo Hoppe, 2006
Dominie Nash
“Food Glorious Food”, 2007 calendar published by Zenith Community Arts Foundation
Creative Quilts:Inspiration,Texture and Stitch, Sandra Meech,2006
Surface Design Journal, Gallery Issue, September 2006
Popular Patchwork (England), February 2006
Embroidery (England), Sept/Oct 2005
Surface Design Journal, Fall 2005
Fiberarts magazine, Nov/Dec 2004
Maureen Bardusk
The Fabric Stamping Handbook, Jean Ray Laury
New/Works: Passage, Art/Quilt Magazine, Issue #11, 2000
Ann Brauer
Threads, Quilt as You Go, Sept 1999 – author
Crafts Report Magazine, “Profile in Success – Playing with Fiber, March 1999
Yankee Magazine, “Made in New England” cover photograph, 2001
New Quilts I, 1991
New Quilts II, 1993
Martha Bruin Degen
FIBERARTS Design Book Seven
Pat Burling
Presentations:.”Creative Textures: Fibers as Art”, Baltimore Show 2006, Westchester Craft Show 2006, Fiber Center, Amherst 2005
Kathleen Field
Photo Art and Craft, Carolyn Vosburg Hall
Sara Hotchkiss
Better Homes and Gardens Decorating Magazine, Winter 2000
Objects for Use/Handmade by Design, Paul Smith
Weaving Contemporary Rag Rugs, Heather Allen
Susan Leslie Lumsden
Missouri Life Magazine, 2006
Niche Magazine, 2006
Art in Embassies 40th Anniversary, 2004
Art in Embassies- Islamabad, 2003
Dominie Nash
FIBERARTS Design Book Seven
Contemporary Quilts: Design,Surface and Stitch, Sandra Meech, 2003, Batsford
The Art Quilt, Robert Shaw
Fiberarts Design Book 2-6
Color and Composition for the Creative Quilter, Barker and Pasquini, 2005
Nadine Spier
“500 Baskets: A Celebration of the Basketmaker’s Art”, Lark Books, 2006
“Contemporary Wicker Basketry” Flo Hoppe, 2006
San Diego Home & Gardens Lifestyle Magazine, June 1999
Shuttle, Spindle & Dyepot, Spring 1998
Alan Vaughn
The Complete Book of Floorcloths, Kathy Cooper and Jan Hersey
Making Floorcloths, a video workshop with Kathy Cooper
Floorcloth Magic, Lisa Curry Mair
The New Flooring Idea Book, Regina Cole
Barbara Webster
LDB Interior Textiles Magazine, May 2002
Quilts Japan Magazine, 2001
Fiberarts Magazine, Nov-Dec 2002
Mary Zicafoose
Fiberarts Magazine, Jan/Feb 2002
The Washington Post, April 23, 1998
Handwoven Magazine, Nov/Dec 1996
Smithsonian Magazine, April 1996
Southwest Art Magazine, October 1995
Fiber Arts Design Book V, VI
INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS
Susan Levi-Goerlich
Art of the Stitch 2006 United Kingdom.
Valerie Goodwin
FiberARTS magazine, Summer 2006
Changing the World One Thread at a Time, International Competition of the European Meeting Patchwork Val d‚Argent September 14th – 17, 2006
Eva Henneberry
TEXTILE 05, Kaunas, Lithuania, October 2005
Barbara Webster
Quilter’s Newsletter Magazine, December 2004
The Laurel of Asheville, October 2005
Quilter’s Newsletter Magazine, December 2005
American Quilter Magazine, Spring 2005
Quilter’s Newsletter Magazine, March, 2006
Russian Quilting Magazine, Spring, 2006
Southern Living Magazine, May 2006
Southern Living Magazine, May 2006
Featured on CorelDraw website, 2005
Featured on Coatscrafts website (UK) 2005
Special Invitational Exhibit, Festival of Quilts, Birmingham, England, 2005
Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts & Sciences 2004 National Juried Competiton: Photography & Digital Images
Art in Embassies Program, Guatemala
Susan Leslie Lumsden
Art in Embassies, Islamabad, Pakistan
Revealing & Healing the Pain of Child Abuse, US and Japan
Changing the World One Thread at a Time, European Edition at Val d‚Argent in Alsace, France
Dominie Nash
Quilt Art 20, traveling in Europe, Japan and Canada, 2005-2007
Art in Embassies Program, Moscow, Armenia
12th Biennial of Miniature Textiles International, Szombathely Gallery of Art, Hungary, 1998