American Tapestry Alliance

Organizational Resume

Exhibitions

2009                Connections: Small Tapestry International
                                    Fiber Art Center Amherst, MA

2008-2009       American Tapestry Biennial 7
                                    University of Tampa, Scarfone/Hartley Gallery Tampa, Florida
                                    Kentucky Museum of Art & Craft Louisville, KY

2008                Woven Gems
                                    TECO Plaza Art Gallery, Tampa Florida

2006-2007       American Tapestry Biennial 6
                                    Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, Michigan
                                    Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, Washington
                                    Museum of Quilts and Textiles, San Jose, California

2007                Christine Laffer: Lines of Inquiry, curated by Mary Lane
                                    www.americantapestryalliance.org/Exhibitions/Exhibitions.html

2007                Barbara Heller: Work Over Time, curated by David Johnson
                                    www.americantapestryalliance.org/Exhibitions/HellerWOT/Welcome.html

2006                Grand Ideas
                                    Kendall College of Art and Design, Grand Rapids, Michigan

2006                Fractured Landscapes: Tapestries and Paper Weaving by Suzanne Pretty, curated by Jan Austin
                                    www.americantapestryalliance.org/Exhibitions/fracturedlandscapes/Welcome.html

2006                Between Two Worlds: Valerie Kirk and Sara Lindsay, curated by Sharon Marcus
                                    www.americantapestryalliance.org/Exhibitions/Between2/Welcome.html

2005                FindingHome@tapestry.ca/au, curated by Linda Wallace and Dorothy Clews
                                    www.americantapestryalliance.org/Exhibitions/Exhibitions.html

2004-2005       American Tapestry Biennial 5
                                    Center for Visual Arts, Denver, Colorado
                                    Dorr Mill, Guild, New Hampshire
                                    Rochester Art Center, Rochester, Minnesota

2004                Small Format Frontiers
                                    Denver, Colorado

2002-2003       American Tapestry Biennial 4
                                    Richmond Art Center, Richmond, BC, Canada
                                    Cannon Art Gallery, Carlsbad, California
                                    Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, Illinois

2000                American Tapestry Biennial III: Thread by Thread
                                    Northern Kentucky University Art Gallery, Highland Heights, Kentucky
                                    Bayeux Gallery, Denver, Colorado

1998                American Tapestry Biennial II: Harmony
                                    Fernbank Museum of Natural History, Atlanta, Georgia

1996-1997       American Tapestry Biennial I
                                    Oak Ridge Museum of Fine Arts, Oak Ridge, Tennessee
                                    Southern Illinois University Museum, Carbondale, Illinois
                                    Wellington B. Gray Gallery, Greenville, North Carolina
                                    The Foothills Art Center, Golden, Colorado

1988-1989       World Tapestry Today in collaboration with the Victorian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne, Australia
                                    Meat Market Craft Centre, Melbourne, Australia
                                    The Chicago Public Library Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois
                                    Bell-Ross Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee
                                    Scheuer Tapestry Gallery, New York, New York
                                    Max Berk Textile Museum, Heidelberg, Germany
                                    Stuttgart City Hall, Stuttgart, Germany
                                    Musee departemental de la tapisserie, Centre Culturel et Artistique Jean Lurcat, Aubusson, France

1986                Panorama of Tapestry
                                    Edward Johnson Building, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario

Educational Symposia and Workshops

2008                Channeling your Muse: Experimentation, Research, Innovation, Design with
                                    Mary Zicafoose and Joan Baxter, June 2008

2007                Connecting Image to Process/Process to Image with Susan Martin Maffei, October 2007

2007                Celebrating Twenty Five Years of Contemporary Tapestry with Jean Pierre
                                    Larochette, Melissa Leventon and Barbara Heller, May 2007

2006                The Way In: Exploring Strategies for Tapestry Design, with Susan Iverson, Jane
                                    Kidd and Sharon Marcus, Grand Rapids, Michigan, July 2006

2004                Where Lines Meet: Constructing Tapestry Cartoons, with Christine Laffer, Lake
                                    Sunapee, New Hampshire, October 2004

2004                Outside the Studio: Presenting Tapestry within a Broader Field, HGA
                                    Convergence, Denver, Colorado, July 2004

2003                Looking at Tapestry: Views by Weavers and Scholars, in collaboration with the
                                    Gloria F. Ross Center for Tapestry Studies, Chicago, Illinois, March 2003

2002                Panel: Canadian Tapestry, HGA Convergence, Vancouver, BC, Canada, July 2002

2000                Exploration and Discoveries, Northern Kentucky University, June 2000

1999                Southwest Influence on Contemporary Tapestry, in collaboration with the Gloria F.
                                    Ross Center for Tapestry Studies, Tucson, Arizona, February 1999

Grants and Awards

2008                Friends of Fiber Art International, $750 in support of the American Tapestry
                                    Biennial 7 exhibition catalog

2006                Friends of Fiber Art International, $500 in support of the American Tapestry
                                    Biennial 6 exhibition catalog

2004                National Endowment for the Arts, $5000 in support of American Tapestry
                                    Biennial 5

2004                Friends of Fiber Art International, $1500 in support of the American Tapestry
                                    Biennial 5 exhibition catalog

Publications

Ongoing         Tapestry Topics: A Quarterly Review of Tapestry Art Today
2008                American Tapestry Biennial 7
2008                Woven Gems
2006                American Tapestry Biennial 6
2006                Grand Ideas
2004                American Tapestry Biennial 5
2002                American Tapestry Biennial 4 (CD ROM catalogue)
2000                Thread by Thread (American Tapestry Biennial III)
1998                Harmony: Interpretations of Nature in Contemporary Tapestry (American Tapestry
                                    Biennial II)
1996                American Tapestry Biennial I
1996                Directory of Contemporary Tapestries in Public Places
1988                World Tapestry Today
1986                Panorama of Tapestry

Student Award

2007                Second annual ATA Student Award presented to Melinda Heal
2006                First annual ATA Student Award presented to Mary Caitlin Sellers

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