ARTIST STATEMENT
Love of color, the sense of translucent depth and the surprise of the unexpected have fueled my re-entry to dyeing silk. I have spent the last few years working with a variety of printmaking techniques prior to succumbing to the urge to once again make textiles. The images are produced through a variety of resist printmaking and direct painting techniques using dyes and discharges. The richness and variety of silk surfaces, sometimes combined with stitching and fusing, is endlessly fascinating to me.
RECENT EXHIBITIONS
2010
"Inside Out", Textile Center, Minneapolis, MN
"Art Quilt Elements", Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA
"Fibers Biennial", Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia ,PA
"Art Quilt Elements", Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA
"Fibers Biennial", Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia ,PA
2009
"Absolutely Abstract", Prize winner, Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia, PA
"Contemporary Voices", Woodmere Art Center, Chestnut Hill, PA
"Herstory", Riverfront Renaissance Center, Middletown, NJ
"Form Not Function", Quilt Art at the Carnegie, New Albany, IN
"Contemporary Voices", Woodmere Art Center, Chestnut Hill, PA
"Herstory", Riverfront Renaissance Center, Middletown, NJ
"Form Not Function", Quilt Art at the Carnegie, New Albany, IN
2008
Fibers Invitational, Buyers Market
Sum of The Parts Traveling Show, Surface Design Association Membership Exhibition 07’
03/23/2008 - 06/08/2008 - Museum of Texas Tech University
09/07/2008 - 11/02/2008 - J. Wayne Stark Gallery, Texas A&M University
11/23/2008 - 01/18/2009 - The Goldstein Museum of Design, University of Minnesota
12/13/2009 - 02/07/2010 - Dane G. Hansen Memorial Museum
Sum of The Parts Traveling Show, Surface Design Association Membership Exhibition 07’
03/23/2008 - 06/08/2008 - Museum of Texas Tech University
09/07/2008 - 11/02/2008 - J. Wayne Stark Gallery, Texas A&M University
11/23/2008 - 01/18/2009 - The Goldstein Museum of Design, University of Minnesota
12/13/2009 - 02/07/2010 - Dane G. Hansen Memorial Museum
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2005 - Present
Adjunct Assistant Faculty University of the Arts, Art Education
1969- 2004
Full time Art teacher:
1969-71, K-8 Buffalo, NY
1971-73, 6-12 East Green Bush School District, NY
1973-2004, 7-12 Upper Darby School District. PA
1969-71, K-8 Buffalo, NY
1971-73, 6-12 East Green Bush School District, NY
1973-2004, 7-12 Upper Darby School District. PA
1979 - 80
1980 Winter Olympics, Assistant Manager of Social Programs
1979
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, Maine, Teaching Assistantship
EDUCATION
1969
B.S. Art Education, State University of New York College at Buffalo.