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Highlights
• Workhouse Arts Center Studio Fiber Arts, LLC, Studio
605
• Member of the Workhouse Artists Group, Workhouse Arts Center,
Lorton, VA
• Presentations and Lectures: Bethesda, MD; Ellicott City,
MD; Rocky Mount, NC; Pembroke, VA; Burke, VA
• SAQA Co-representative
of VA
• SAQA Portfolio 17: Fiber Art: Hyoho Niten Ichi Ryu
• SAQA
published: A Sense of Humor/ SAQA @ 20 Art & Excellence, Fiber Art:
Thanks, Miracle Grow!
• American Style Magazine, October 2009, Fiber
Art: Hyoho Niten Ichi Ryu
• Professional Artist Member of Studio Art
Quilt Associates, (SAQA), March 2009
• Founder of Fiber Artists @
Loose Ends, beginning August 2005
• Teacher: The Quilt Patch,
Fairfax, VA and The Workhouse Arts Center, Lorton, VA
• Membership:
SAQA, Fiber Artist’s @ Loose Ends, Art Quilt Network, Inc., McLean
Project for the Arts, Fairfax Chapter of Quilter’s Unlimited,
Centreville Regional Art Guild, Art Quilt Study Group under Judy House,
Creative Art Cluster- Practical Art of Creativity Discussion Group,
Playing Outside The Block, The Stained Glass Works Art Group
•
Commissioned Fiber Art Work for The Brehm Center for Type 1 Diabetes
Research and Analysis and the University of Michigan Cancer Center
•
Commissioned Fiber Art Work for BioArtography, The University of
Michigan’s Center for Organogenesis
• Participant in the Healing
Quilts in Medicine donations to the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in
honor of Judy House. (Note: There is an article concerning this exhibit
in Nursing Oncology, Barb Henry, ed.)
Education
• Degree from Albion College, May 1970, Albion, MI
High Honors in English, Art, Education
(Studied under Art Professor
Frank Machek)
• Continued Courses: 36 graduate hours earned,
University of Virginia
• Community Classes include Silk Screening,
Watercolors, Charcoal, Pastels, Stained Glass, Photography, Figure
Drawing
• Courses at individual shops: Quilting, Stained Glass,
Knitting as an Art Form
• Note: Courses taken in Illinois,
Massachusetts, Florida, and Virginia
Teaching Art
• Wildwood Audubon Camp, Barre, MA
• Camp
Algonquian, Burke Lake, MI
• All Saints School, Manassas, VA
(incorporated art in the Kindergarten Program)
• Workshops of Art
Techniques, Holliston, MA, Framingham, MA, Sturbridge, MA, Bellingham,
MA and Milford, MA
• Art Coordinator of Kindergarten Sunday School,
Saint Mary’s Catholic Church, Holliston, MA
• Mother’s Art Group,
Indian Harbor Beach, FL
• The Quilt Patch, Fairfax, VA
• Stained
Glass Workshops, Clifton, VA
• Fiber Art Workshops, Clifton, VA
•
The Workhouse Arts Center, Lorton, VA
• Fiber Art Lectures and
presentations: Pembroke, VA; Burke, VA; Rocky Mount, NC; Bethesda, MD;
Ellicott City, MD; Washington, DC
