ABOUT
I have been a practicing visual artist for over fifty years, exhibiting nationally and internationally. My mediums have included painting, stained glass, fiber art, photography. I was an art museum administrator for 39 years, where the vast collections of world cultures have had a profound effect on my art practice. Formally training as a painter, my painting practice evolved over 25 years, and for reasons inexplicable even to me I abandoned painting. I became increasingly interested in textiles and textile techniques and I developed a method for knitting with beads combining my respect for hand crafts found in indigenous cultures, a love of pattern through textiles, worldwide, and my reverence for nature. Trained Indiana University
EXHIBITIONS
Solo Exhibitions
2022, April 29 - June 18, Bloooming-Ton, undistillung for tekstil (Venue for Textiles), Copenhagen, DK
2009, September, Innovations in Textiles “8”, Bead-It, Edwardsville, IL, Missouri Fiber Artists
2007, September, The Devil is in the Details, Prima Gallery, Bloomington, IN
Education
Indiana University Bloomington School of Fine Arts, Bachelor of Arts
Area of Specialty and Expertise
Visual artist, painter, fiber artist, landscape designer, photographer, landscape historian, lecturer, freelance writer
Art Museum professional 1982 – 2021
Juried/Invitational Exhibitions
2025, September 1 - September 30, Creativity Unbound, HMVC Gallery, NY online exhibition with Jumbotron Billboard, Times Square, NYC, 1500 Broadway & West 43rd St. www.hmvcgallery.com Pliny’s Demise: World on Fire
2024, June 27 - August, Interplay, A National/International Juried Exhibition, Surface Design Association, The Dairy Barn, Athens, OH Book of Hours
2024, June 27 - July 19, National Open Juried Exhibition, Providence Art Club, Providence, RI, *Merit Award Embankment, Undercurrent
2025, Winter, By Hand, Blue Line Gallery, Roseville, CA Book of Hours, Winter Creek
2023, December 2, 2023 - January 20, 2024, Craft Forms 2023 28th International Juried Exhibition of Contemporary Fine Craft, Davenport Gallery, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA, *500 submissions 96 chosen Embankment, Meditations Along the Water’s Edge
2023, November 23, 2023 - March 17, 2024, 47th Midstates Craft Exhibition, Evansville Museum of Art, Evansville, IN Lost River, Indiana
2023, Still, Embankment, Meditations Along the Water’s Edge, online exhibition
Material World: A Contemporary Fiber Arts Exhibition, July 28 – September 9, 2023, The Arts Council of Fayetteville/Cumberland County NC Under Current
Afterlives, Surface Design Association, online exhibition June-August 2023, Winter Creek
Indiana Now, Greater Lafayette Museum of Art, May 5 – August 6, 2023, Lost River, Indiana
Through the Eye of the Needle, Hudson Valley Museum of Contemporary Art, February – April 22, 2023, Peekskill, NY Lost River Indiana
Tenuous Threads, Atlantic Gallery, NYC February – March 2023 Undercurrent
Site Brooklyn, Series, online exhibition, Fall, 2022 Midwest Landscape I: June; Midwest Landscape II Tornado; Midwest Landscape III Rural Crafts
2022 Yarn, Rope, String Fiber Art Now, December 8, 2022 – June 26, 2023, New Bedford MA, with publication Fiber Art Now, Summer 2022, limited invitation to exhibit at the New Bedford Art Museum, New Bedford, MA. Midwest Landscape III: Rural Crafts, Breadbasket Doylie
2022 Surface: A National Juried Exhibition Highlighting the Use of Textures and Patterns In Artwork, May 28 – June 25, 2022, d’Art Center, Norfolk, VA. [Exhibition is archived at d’Art Center] 62 artists/ 64 artworks out of 738 entries Undercurrent
2020 The 11th Lausanne to Beijing International Fiber Art Biennale “Symbiosis to Coexistence” online digital less than 10% of foreign submissions/applications accepted Chance Encounters Bloomington-Madrid-Beijing
2019, Summer, Patterns, online exhibition, Surface Design Association
2018, Micro-Macro, September – December 1, 2018, The Foundry Art Center, St. Charles, MO Buenos Aires Remnants
2017, Speaking of Fibers, An Altered Environment, Missouri Fiber Artists, Maryville College, October- December 2017 Anthropocene Period: Rainforest Requiem
2017 Fiber Arts VIII International Fiber Arts Biennial, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, July 28 – September 3, Sebastopol, CA
2016, Transgressing Traditions, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn NY June 3 – August 21, 2016
WORKS
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Beaded Panels
featured: Adjacent Dimensions, H. 13 ¼ x W. 24 inches, 2025, DMC Perle cotton #12 Czech seed beads #11, knitting and stitching
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Paper Weavings
featured: Veiled Longing, H.22 x W.33 x D.1 inches, 2025, Digital printing, mulberry paper, weaving, Joomchi application
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Digital Works
featured: Untitled 4-24-2024
