Chicago Textile Artist

2018   FASA, Annual Exhibit, (San Antonio, TX)

Many Voices from One, IQF (Houston, TX)

Fiber II, Liberty Town Arts (Fredricksburg, VA)

Spun, Innovative Fiber, NEST Arts Factory, (Bridgeport, CT)

Art Speaks! Lend Your Voice, Arena 1 Gallery, (Santa Monica, CA)

2017   Spun, Innovative Fiber, NEST Arts Factory, (Bridgeport, CT)

Stitched Together, AQS (Chicago, IL), Marshfield Clinic New Visions Gallery,

(Marshfield, WI), Anderson Art Center (Kenosha, WI), Bloomingdale Park

District Museum, (Bloomingdale, IL), Fine Line Creative Arts Center

(St. Charles, IL)

2016   Art Kudos Competition 2016, Art Kudos, online gallery

Wabi Sabi, Janet Carson Gallery (Eau Claire, WI)

Spun, Innovative Fiber, NEST Arts Factory, (Bridgeport, CT)

2015 An Art of Her Own, Gallery 7 (Joliet, IL)

3rd Annual Art Competition, Bridgeport Art Gallery (Chicago, IL)

Got Jazz, Janet Carson Gallery (Eau Claire, WI), Madden Arts Center (Decatur,

IL), Contemporary Art Center (Peoria, IL), FVCCC, (Ferguson, MO)

2014 Pretty Planet, traveling with Mancuso Quilt Fest

Salvage to Selvege, Anderson Art Center (Kenosha, WI), Leigh Yawkey

Woodson (Wausau, WI), Quilt, Knit, Stitch (Portland, OR), Decatur Arts Council

(Decatur, IL)

2013   Milagros, Addison Art Center (Addison, IL), Adler Center for Art (Libertyville, IL),

Circle of Arts (Charlevoix, MI)

Art Quilts Lowell, Brush Art Gallery (Lowell, MA)

Blind Eye, traveling with Mancuso Quilt Fest

2012 >Featured artist, WCA national website, November

BlueWorld/GreenWorld, Riverfront Arts Center, (Stevens Point, WI), Prairie Arts

Center, (Schaumburg, IL), Pump House Gallery (La Crosse, WI), Textile Arts

Main Library (Peoria, IL) UMI HS Gifts of Art Gallery (Ann Arbor, MI), Gifts of

Art Gallery (Dearborn, MI), Arts Center (Hartford, WI), Ferguson Gallery,

Concordia University (River Forest IL), New Visions Gallery (Marshfield, WI).

Quilt and Craft Show, (Curtiba, Brazil)

Conversations in Stitch On Abstraction, South Shore Arts Center

(Cohasset, MA), Grace Center (Minneapolis, MN)

Schauer Center (Minneapolis, MN),

Modest in Scale, Abecedarian Gallery (Denver, CO)

>All Women, Light, Space and Time (online) * Hon mention

From Nature, Altered Esthetics Gallery (Minneapolis, MN)

> Contemporary Women Artists XVI, St. Louis WCA (St. Louis, MO)

2011 Ties that Bind, Sheldon Art Galleries, (St. Louis, MO)

>Seasons, Light, Space and Time (online), *Hon mention

Transitions, Fredericksburg Center for the Creative Arts (Fredericksburg, VA)

>San Diego WCA, Express Yourself (Online gallery) *Hon mention

Art?, Altered Esthetics Gallery (Minneapolis MN)

>San Diego WCA, Transition (Online gallery) *1st place

National Small Works, National Association of Women Artists (New York, NY)

Conversations in Stitch, Anderson Art Center, (Kenosha, WI)

 

2010  >Transitions, Fredericksburg Center for the Creative Arts (Fredericksburg,VA) *3rdPrize

October National, Gallery 510 (Decatur, IL)

Small Expressions, HGA Convergence (Albuequerque, NM)

Some Like it Hot, Simply Chicago Art (Evanston, IL); Schaumburg Prairie Arts Center

(Schaumburg, IL);

Midwest Meditations, Bloomingdale Park District Museum (Bloomingdale, IL); Simply

Chicago Art (Evanston, IL)

  •  13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, Gov. French Gallery (Belleville,IL),

Circle of Arts (Charlevoix, MI), Simply Chicago Art (Evanston, IL). Iowa

Artisan’s Gallery (Iowa City, IA), Northville Art House (Ann Arbor, MI),

Schaumburg Prairie Arts Center (Schaumburg, IL), Waukesha Civic Theatre

Gallery (Waukesha, WI), Am Craft Council Gallery, (Minneapolis, MN)

Form not function, Quilt Art at the Carnegie (New Albany, IN)

12x12x122, BECA Gallery, (New Orleans, LA)

Small Expressions 2009, HGA, (Ridgeland, MS and Grinnell, IA)

Musings, SAQA, G. R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum, (Grand Rapids, MI)

Made by Hand, WCA, Crossroads Gallery and Studios (St Charles, MO)

Blurred Boundaries, Mixed Media Art Exhibit, Radisson Plaza Hotel (Kalamazoo, MI)

>Taiwan International Quilt Exhibition 2009 (invitational), National Tainan Living Art

Center (Tainan City, Taiwan)

2008   >Art in Embassies Exhibit Invitational, US Embassy (Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire)

Breaking Boundaries: Art of the Quilt, Gallery 50 (Traverse City, MI)

Time and Memory, Flint Festival of Quilts (Flint, MI), Greater Chic. Quilt

Exposition (Schaumburg, IL)

Prime, Primary, Primordial (SAQA), PA National Quilt Extravaganza

(Harrisburg, PA

Up in Stitches, SAQA, Yeiser Gallery (Paducah, KY)

I-4 Corridor, Harris House, Atlantic Center for the Arts (New Smyrna Beach, FL)

Terra Suava, Crossroads Gallery St. Petersburg College, (Clearwater, FL);

Quilt Expo (Madison, WI)

2007   Making Contact, Chicago Women’s Caucus for Art, Peter Jones Gallery

(Chicago, IL)

Balancing Act, SAQA, Lawrence Street Gallery, (Ferndale, MI)

> Contemporary Women Artists 14, St. Louis NWCA, Mad Art Gallery (St. Louis, MO)

Fiber Renaissance Invitational (traveling for 2 years), Union Street Gallery (Chicago

Heights, IL); Flint Festival of Quilts, (Flint, MI); Greater Chicago Quilt Exposition

(Schaumburg,, IL), WI Museum of Textile Art (Cedarburg, WI)

Elemental: Contemporary Quilted Art, Fiber Art Center, (Amherst, MA)

 

2006     Quilts for Art’s Sake 5, Makeready Gallery (Montclair, NJ)

>Expressions: The Art Quilt , Tims Art Quilt Studio and Gallery (La Veta, CO), MQE,

Manchester, NH), AQS (Nashville, TN), MAQS (Paducah, KY)

Fiber Arts 2006 , Gallery 510 (Decatur, IL)

2006 National Small Art Quilt Works, The Main Street Gallery (Groton, NY)

On the Wall: SAQA @ Colorado Springs (Colorado Springs, CO)

>Fine Focus 2006 Art Quilts, Yeiser Art Center (Paducah, KY),\; Cornell Museum

(Ithaca, NY); Coos Art Museum (Coos Bay, OR); I QF (Chicago, IL),

Art Center/Old Forge (Old Forge, NY)

Considering Quilts 2006, Atlantic Center at Harris House (New Smyrna Beach, FL

New Fibers 2006, Urban Institute of Contemporary Art (Grand Rapids, MI), Art

Gallery of N. MI Univ. (Marquette, MI), Riverside Arts Center (Ypsilanti, MI)

SAQA/Convergence2006/Art Quilts at Park Church (Grand Rapids, MI)

 

2005       Keiko and Friends, Kavanagh Gallery, Fine Line Art Center (St .Charles, IL)

The Expressive Stitch Invitational, Fairfield City Museum and Gallery (Sydney, AU)

> AQA Exhibit Invitational, Hoeri Quilt Festival, (Konstanz, Germany)

> Pushing the Surface Invitational, Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum, (Coshocton, OH

The Expressive Stitch Invitational, Gallery 159 (Queensland, Australia)

Quilts for Art’s Sake 4, Makeready Gallery (Montclair, NJ)

Full Spectrum [solo show], Old Town Art Center (Chicago, IL)

 

2004       form, not function, Quilt Art at the Carnegie (New Albany, IN)

Brown Studies [solo show], ARC Gallery (Chicago, IL)

7th International Open, Woman Made Gallery (Chicago, IL)

>The Quilted Surface, Riffe Gallery (Columbus, OH)

>ArtQuiltArt Invitational, University Museum, Indiana University of PA

(Indiana, PA)

>IL Chpt. National Museum of Women in the Arts Exhibit (grant winner), Gage Gallery

(Chicago, IL)

Blue Notes [solo show], ARC Gallery (Chicago, IL)

 

2003     > Fiber Focus 2003, Art St. Louis (St. Louis, MO)

Chicago ART Open, Chicago Artists’ Coalition (Chicago, IL)

 

2002       Fibre Arts 2002, Gallery 510 (Decatur, IL)

Contemporary Art 2002, Yeiser Gallery (Paducah, KY)

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