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EXHIBITIONS

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WORKS IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS


  • Renwick Gallery, Natl. Museum of American Art, Smithsonian, Wash D.C.
  • Cooper-Hewitt Museum, Smithsonian, New York
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Museum of Arts and Design, New York
  • Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
  • Philadelphia Museum of Art
  • DeYoung Museum, San Francisco
  • The Art Institute of Chicago
  • Museum Bellerive, Zurich
  • Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
  • Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, Kansas
  • Indianapolis Museum of Art
  • Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence
  • Objects: USA, Herbert F. Johnson Crafts Collection

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS


2007   Snyderman-Works Galleries, Philadelphia, PA.
2005   Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO.
2004   Robert Hillstad Textiles Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln.
1999   Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO.
1992   Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY.
1991   Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY.
1988   Miller Brown Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
1987   Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence.
1987   Renwick Gallery, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian.
1985   Miller Brown Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
1985   Hadler Rodriguez Galleries, New York, NY.
1982   Contemporary Arts Gallery, Portland, Oregon.
1982   Hadler Rodriguez Galleries, New York, NY.
1981   Helen Drutt Gallery and Opatji Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.
1979   Museum Bellerive, Zurich, Switzerland.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS


2005   High Fiber, Renwick Gallery, Natl. Museum of American Art, Smithsonian.
2005   Visions in Textiles, Izmir State Art and Sculpture Museum, Izmir, Turkey.
2005   Textile 05 - 5th International Textile Art Exhibition, Kaunas, Lithuania.
2003   Generations/Transformations: American Fiber Art, American Textile History Museum, Lowell, MA.
2002   Technology as Catalyst: Textile Artists on the Cutting Edge, Textile Museum, Washington, DC.
2002   E-TEXTILES, Museum of Contemporary Art, Montreal (tour).
2000   Miniature Textiles 2000, Museum of Art and Design, Helsinki.
1997   Celebrating AmericanCraft, Kunstindustrie Museum, Copenhagen.
1996   Bridging Worlds, Paley Design Center, Philadelphia, PA.
1995   Fiber: Five Decades from the Permanent Collection, American Craft Museum, New York.
1995   In Our Hands, Sinocol Company Gallery, Nagoya, Japan.
1994   2010 - Textiles and New Technology, British Craft Center, London, England (traveling).
1993   The State of the Art-Fiber, Loveland Museum, Loveland, CO.
1993   International Encounter of Miniature Textile Art, Instituto de Arts Plasticas, Veracruz, Mexico.
1993   First Nadbaltyckie Triennale Miniatury Tkackiej, Polish Maritime Museum, Gdynia, Poland.
1991   Jacquard Project, Museum fur Industriekultur, Nurnberg, Germany.
1989   International Textile Competition '89, Kyoto City Museum, Kyoto, Japan.
1989   Craft TODAY USA, Musee D'Arts Decoratif, Paris, France, (13 countries).
1989   14th Intl. Biennale of Tapestry, Musee Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland and Textile Museum, Tilburg, The Netherlands.
1988   Frontiers in Fiber: The Americans, U.S.I.A. Exhibit Touring the Far East.
1987   The Eloquent Object, Philbrook Art Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma and Kyoto, Japan.
1986   Craft Today: The Poetry of the Physical, American Crafts Museum, New York City (tour 13 countries).
1986   Fiber R/Evolution, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
1982   Jacquard Textiles, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI and the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, NY, NY.
1981   The Art Fabric: Mainstream, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA (traveling 1981-83).
1981   Old Traditions/New Directions, The Textile Museum, Washington, DC.
1979   Miniature Fiber Arts: A National Exhibition, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts (tour).
1979   Fiber Structures-Fabric Surfaces, Herron School of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana.
1978   Third Textile Trienale, The Central Museum of Textiles, Lodz, Poland.
1977   8th International Biennale Of Tapestry, Musee Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Palais de Rumine, Lausanne, Switzerland.
1976   The Dyer's Art, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York (tour).
1973   6th International Biennale of Tapestry, Musee Cantonal des Beaux Arts, Palais de Rumine, Lausanne, Switzerland.
1970   Forms in Fibers, Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, Illinois.

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